| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | DET | 56 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -8 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 1.8 | 13:55 |
| 2014-15 | DET | 82 | 12 | 6 | 18 | +5 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 104 | 11.5 | 14:43 |
| 2015-16 | DET | 81 | 8 | 13 | 21 | +4 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 88 | 9.1 | 14:35 |
| 2016-17 | DET | 74 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -10 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 4.0 | 12:55 |
| 2017-18 | DET | 69 | 11 | 8 | 19 | -14 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 88 | 12.5 | 13:12 |
| 2018-19 | DET | 78 | 10 | 13 | 23 | +2 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 102 | 9.8 | 15:47 |
| 2019-20 | DET | 60 | 6 | 3 | 9 | -29 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 76 | 7.9 | 15:21 |
| 2020-21 | DET | 54 | 6 | 9 | 15 | +3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 67 | 9.0 | 14:48 |
| 2021-22 | DAL | 82 | 9 | 7 | 16 | -17 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 116 | 7.8 | 14:07 |
| 2022-23 | DAL | 70 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -9 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 65 | 4.6 | 12:04 |
| 2023-24 | TBL | 81 | 10 | 1 | 11 | -2 | 39 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 57 | 17.5 | 11:37 |
| 2024-25 | TBL | 77 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 51 | 7.8 | 10:47 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 864 | 83 | 83 | 166 | -84 | 308 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 944 | 8.8 | 13:37 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
4 goals and 3 assists in 77 games for 7 points, minus-9, on 10:47 a night with Tampa Bay, including a shorthanded goal.
51 shots in 77 games and 7 points. That is the smallest offensive contribution of any full-season forward in this edition, and it is exactly what he is paid for.
The Finesse Game
None, and none is expected. 7 points is close to his rate over four seasons and he has never had a season above 25 points in twelve.
The value is entirely in the faceoff circle, where he is among the two or three best defensive-zone centres in the league, and on the penalty kill.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 190, and he plays a hard, willing checking game. He blocks shots, finishes checks, and is trusted to protect a lead.
10 penalty minutes over 77 games is exceptional discipline for the role. Twelve seasons of this and the durability has barely wavered.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of Michigan, four organisations, and a career built on one specialised skill done better than almost anybody.
At 36 the projection is unchanged and the runway is short. New Jersey lost Erik Haula and needed a fourth-line centre who wins draws, and bought the purest available version of one.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.13 penalty minutes a game over 77, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
34% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 9th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“Undrafted out of Michigan, four organisations, and a career built on one specialised skill done better than almost anybody.”
“The value is entirely in the faceoff circle, where he is among the two or three best defensive-zone centres in the league, and on the penalty kill.”
“where he is among the two or three best defensive-zone centres in the league, and on the penalty kill.”
“He blocks shots, finishes checks, and is trusted to protect a lead.”
“he plays a hard, willing checking game. He blocks shots, finishes checks, and is trusted to protect a lead.”
“is trusted to protect a lead”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 698 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43%
- 9th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.3%
- 10th 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: 12 for, 23 against. Expected: 19.7 and 26.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 16 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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, 2024-25 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 22.9 mph
- 80th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.62 a game
- Distance
- 1.67 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 80.8 mph
- 23rd 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 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with TBL · 698 minutes at five-on-five
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, 2024-25
- The club
- TBL took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.0% — 7.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 698 minutes at five-on-five — 28th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zemgus Girgensons | 49.1% | 35.3% | 50.3% |
| Michael Eyssimont | 53.4% | 36.8% | 50.2% |
| Emil Lilleberg | 37.1% | 46.7% | 48.9% |
49.1% together, 35.3% for him apart and 50.3% for Girgensons apart. He was worse away from Girgensons, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Girgensons did.
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
72 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.