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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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MacKenzie Weegar

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MacKenzie Weegar

Utah Mammoth Defense #52

Minus 33, 22 and a half minutes, and the 78th percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2016-17FLA30000400030.017:27
2017-18FLA60268+532000583.514:34
2018-19FLA6441115-364002795.116:58
2019-20FLA4571118+633001779.120:07
2020-21FLA5463036+29450011015.922:07
2021-22FLA8083644+40811122033.923:22
2022-23CGY8142731+15430011602.521:06
2023-24CGY82203252+2513022089.622:56
2024-25CGY8183947+18334001844.324:10
2025-26CGY/UTA7942428-33880001542.622:28
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—62963216279+7947481912275.121:09

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

4 goals and 24 assists in 79 games — 28 points, minus-33, at 22:28 a night with 88 penalty minutes.

His 629th career game.

The Finesse Game

226 unblocked attempts from a median of 53 feet, 84 per cent of them from beyond 40 and 3 per cent from inside 20, and 4 goals.

24 assists in 79 games is a fair rate. 63 goals in 629 career games.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 206, and he plays a genuinely hard game — he finishes checks, defends his crease, and takes the other team’s best line. 88 penalty minutes.

The skating is good enough and the physical commitment is the reason a 206th overall pick has played 600 games.

The Intangibles

This is one of the strangest pages in the edition. 48.7 per cent of the expected goals, 54th percentile, and 51.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 73rd, across 1,432 minutes — with the chances essentially level at 57.4 and 60.5, and the goals 46 for and 75 against — 26 worse than those chances.

And a minus-33, the joint third-worst figure in this book.

Every 5-on-5 number here is above water. The minus comes from short-handed ice and empty nets, and it is the single most misleading plus-minus in this book.

6 points in his last 10. He is 32, and this page exists to say that the number on his hockey card is wrong.

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.

  • perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in

    84.1% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 94th percentile among defencemen

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

  • durable· was available

    79 of 82 games

    Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,432 minutes

Expected goals
48.7%
44th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
51.9%
74th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 46 for, 75 against. Expected: 57.4 and 60.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
73rd
Numbers
44th

The report ranks him 29 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

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 — 76 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 · 79 games

Top speed
22.0 mph
64th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.47 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
3.28 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
91.0 mph
53rd pct

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

6

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 5 assists, 18 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with CGY · 1090 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, 2025-26

The club
UTA took 53.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.7% — 4.4 below the club he did it on.
The role
1,432 minutes at five-on-five — 94th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Yan Kuznetsov45.9%51.0%47.4%
Nazem Kadri47.1%49.2%52.3%
Matt Coronato46.7%49.2%45.3%

45.9% together, 51.0% for him apart and 47.4% for Kuznetsov apart. He was better away from Kuznetsov, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Kuznetsov.

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

226 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 49 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 84% from beyond forty.