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Logan Stankoven
Carolina Hurricanes Center #22
5-8, 165 pounds, and the 100th percentile in shot attempts.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | DAL | 24 | 6 | 8 | 14 | +10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 11.8 | 14:40 |
| 2024-25 | DAL/CAR | 78 | 14 | 24 | 38 | -1 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 194 | 7.2 | 15:06 |
| 2025-26 | CAR | 81 | 21 | 23 | 44 | +12 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 166 | 12.7 | 15:27 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 183 | 41 | 55 | 96 | +21 | 47 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 411 | 10.0 | 15:12 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
21 goals and 23 assists in 81 games — 44 points, plus-12, at 15:27 a night. 11 points in his last 10 games, 7 of them goals.
The Finesse Game
He is the smallest skater in the National Hockey League and he plays like the biggest man on his line, which is the only sentence that really describes him.
The engine is the skating: low, wide, absurdly strong on his edges, and almost impossible to knock off a puck because his centre of gravity is somewhere around a defenceman’s knee. He wins races he should not and then protects the puck with a leverage nobody expects.
The shooting is honest work — 42 per cent of his unblocked attempts from inside 20 feet, median 23, and 20 goals. He goes to the net front at 165 pounds and stands there.
The Physical Game
5-8. 165 pounds. Those are the numbers and there is no arguing with them: he cannot win a battle by strength and he can be pinned by a defenceman who gets position first.
What he does instead is never stop moving and never be where the hit is. 25 penalty minutes says he gives as much of it back as he can.
The Intangibles
Now the part that matters. He was on the ice for 61.4 per cent of the shot attempts — the 100th percentile — and 58.8 per cent of the expected goals, 99th. Across 1,116 minutes the goals went 54-41 in his favour.
There is no reading of those numbers that is not extraordinary, and they were posted by a 22-year-old the size of a junior forward on the best possession team in the league.
The honest uncertainty is the one that hangs over every player built like this: a 7-game series against a team that decides to hunt him. Carolina is going to find out, and so is he.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,116 minutes
- Expected goals
- 58.8%
- 98th pct
- Shot attempts
- 61.4%
- 100th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 54 for, 41 against. Expected: 60.8 and 42.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 9 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 80 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 34th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.20 a game
- Distance
- 2.60 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.2 mph
- 58th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
11
points in his last 10 games — 7 goals, 4 assists, 28 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1116 minutes at five-on-five
- Taylor Hall58%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2025-26
- The club
- CAR took 55.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 58.8% — 3.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,116 minutes at five-on-five — 73rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Blake | 59.6% | 53.8% | 48.5% |
| Taylor Hall | 58.3% | 59.6% | 52.6% |
| Alexander Nikishin | 59.4% | 58.4% | 51.9% |
59.6% together, 53.8% for him apart and 48.5% for Blake apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
249 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.