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MacKenzie Weegar
Calgary Flames Defense
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.
50.3 per cent at five-on-five, the 55th percentile, over 1,443 minutes. His on-ice goals were 49-55 against an expected 54-53, 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,443 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.3%
- 56th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.5%
- 90th 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: 49 for, 55 against. Expected: 54.0 and 53.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 27 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 337 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1443 minutes at five-on-five
- Joel Hanley39%
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 50.3% — 1.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Hanley | 52.2% | 49.1% | 45.6% |
| Daniil Miromanov | 46.7% | 52.6% | 46.7% |
| Nazem Kadri | 50.2% | 50.4% | 48.8% |
52.2% together, 49.1% for him apart and 45.6% for Hanley 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
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.