Louis Crevier
Buffalo Sabres Defense
6-8, and the 5th percentile in expected goals while he was on the ice.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | CHI | 24 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 | 15:41 |
| 2024-25 | CHI | 32 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 10.7 | 17:17 |
| 2025-26 | CHI | 78 | 7 | 18 | 25 | -2 | 63 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 114 | 6.1 | 17:08 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 134 | 10 | 22 | 32 | -24 | 77 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 160 | 6.3 | 16:55 |
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
7 goals and 18 assists in 78 games, minus-2, at 17:08 a night with 63 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Chicago.
The Finesse Game
25 points is more than anyone expected and it does not survive inspection. 172 unblocked attempts from a median of 50 feet, 8 per cent of them inside 20, and 8 went in. He shoots from the blue line because that is where he stands.
The skating is the limitation. At his dimensions the first 2 strides are slow, and a forward who gets a step on him keeps it.
The Physical Game
The tallest man in this book. 6-8 and 228 pounds with a reach that ends plays before they start, and he uses it — 63 penalty minutes, a cleared crease, and nobody enjoying the front of his net.
When he can get his stick on a puck he is enormously effective. The trouble is arriving.
The Intangibles
The numbers are the harshest in this section and they are not close. 42 and a half per cent of the expected goals while he was on the ice — 5th percentile in the league — with the expected goals running 41.2 to 57.8 against across 1,180 minutes. That is a full season of evidence and it says the ice tilted badly whenever he was on it.
The context is a poor Chicago team and heavy defensive-zone deployment. It is not enough context to explain a gap that size.
He is 25, a 188th overall pick who has made himself into an NHL defenceman by being unignorably large. That is a genuine achievement. It is also, on this evidence, the whole of it.
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.
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
32% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 1st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,180 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.6%
- 4th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46%
- 19th 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: 48 for, 55 against. Expected: 41.2 and 57.8.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 4 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 — 63 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 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 94th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.76 a game
- Distance
- 2.41 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 102.8 mph
- 99th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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
8
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 6 assists, 13 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with CHI · 1180 minutes at five-on-five
- Alex Vlasic66%
- Wyatt Kaiser20%
- Matt Grzelcykoff the roster8%
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
- CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.6% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,180 minutes at five-on-five — 80th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Vlasic | 41.0% | 42.8% | 40.8% |
| Ilya Mikheyev | 42.6% | 40.9% | 40.8% |
| Tyler Bertuzzi | 44.7% | 40.1% | 45.1% |
41.0% together, 42.8% for him apart and 40.8% for Vlasic apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
172 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 40 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 73% from beyond forty.