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MacKenzie Weegar

47 points and a plus-18 on a club that was outscored, and 24:10 a night doing it.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2016-17	FLA	3	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	3	0.0	17:27
2017-18	FLA	60	2	6	8	+5	32	0	0	0	58	3.5	14:34
2018-19	FLA	64	4	11	15	-3	64	0	0	2	79	5.1	16:58
2019-20	FLA	45	7	11	18	+6	33	0	0	1	77	9.1	20:07
2020-21	FLA	54	6	30	36	+29	45	0	0	1	101	5.9	22:07
2021-22	FLA	80	8	36	44	+40	81	1	1	2	203	3.9	23:22
2022-23	CGY	81	4	27	31	+15	43	0	0	1	160	2.5	21:06
2023-24	CGY	82	20	32	52	+2	51	3	0	2	208	9.6	22:56
2024-25	CGY	81	8	39	47	+18	33	4	0	0	184	4.3	24:10
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	550	59	192	251	+112	386	8	1	9	1073	5.5	20:58

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

8 goals and 39 assists in 81 games for 47 points, plus-18 on a club with a minus-8 goal differential — the highest rating on the roster — on 24:10 a night and 184 shots.

51.0 per cent at five-on-five, the 62nd percentile, over 1,443 minutes. His on-ice goals were 54-42 against an expected 54-52, so the results ran 7 goals against him.

The Finesse Game

The best passer on the blue line by a distance. 39 assists is a genuine total and it comes from him moving the puck early and accurately rather than from carrying it — he beats a forecheck with a first pass rather than with his feet.

184 shots and 8 goals with 77 per cent from beyond 40 feet is a point shooter keeping pucks alive rather than a scoring threat. There is no rush game and the offence is all from the line.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 206, and he plays considerably heavier. He finishes checks, defends his net front, and is among the more willing defencemen in the league to make an opponent’s night unpleasant.

33 penalty minutes over 81 games is disciplined for the style. The durability is excellent — four consecutive seasons above 78 games at 24 minutes a night.

The Intangibles

A seventh-round pick who became a genuine number-one defenceman, and the return in the trade everybody discusses in terms of the other player.

At 31 he is the most reliable player on this roster and the one whose absence would be felt most immediately. The contract runs into his mid-thirties, which for a defenceman who plays this physically is the standard concern.

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
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“39 assists is a genuine total and it comes from him moving the puck early and accurately rather than from carrying it — he beats a forecheck with a first pass rather than with his feet.”
transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control
“There is no rush game and the offence is all from the line.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He finishes checks, defends his net front, and is among the more willing defencemen in the league to make an opponent's night unpleasant.”
clears-the-creasea strength· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He finishes checks, defends his net front, and is among the more willing defencemen in the league to make an opponent's night unpleasant.”
nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“He finishes checks, defends his net front, and is among the more willing defencemen in the league to make an opponent's night unpleasant.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,443 minutes

Expected goals: 51%; 63rd pct
Shot attempts: 55%; 91st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 54 for, 42 against. Expected: 53.8 and 51.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

84th

Numbers

63rd

The report ranks him 21 points above where the numbers do. 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. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 23.2 mph; 95th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.77 a game
Distance: 3.56 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.8 mph; 51st pct

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 · 1443 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: CGY took 48.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.0% — 2.3 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,443 minutes at five-on-five — 97th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Daniil Miromanov	47.9%	52.9%	42.3%
Joel Hanley	52.0%	50.4%	46.1%
Nazem Kadri	49.7%	51.7%	48.1%

47.9% together, 52.9% for him apart and 42.3% for Miromanov apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Miromanov behind.

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

274 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 44 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.