Marcus Pettersson

6-5 and 174 pounds, and the 5th percentile.

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

2017-18	ANA	22	1	3	4	+5	6	0	0	0	16	6.3	13:37
2018-19	ANA/PIT	84	2	23	25	+17	66	1	0	0	87	2.3	16:41
2019-20	PIT	69	2	20	22	+9	35	0	0	0	79	2.5	19:24
2020-21	PIT	47	2	7	9	+8	22	0	0	0	46	4.3	16:29
2021-22	PIT	72	2	17	19	+8	38	0	0	0	83	2.4	15:39
2022-23	PIT	68	1	23	24	+4	58	0	0	0	96	1.0	20:35
2023-24	PIT	82	4	26	30	+28	44	0	0	1	106	3.8	22:40
2024-25	PIT/VAN	78	4	25	29	+6	45	0	0	1	70	5.7	21:42
2025-26	VAN	82	3	15	18	-19	60	0	0	1	66	4.5	21:27
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	604	21	159	180	+66	374	1	0	3	649	3.2	19:17

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

3 goals and 15 assists in all 82 games — 18 points, minus-19, at 21:27 a night with 60 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Vancouver.

The Finesse Game

Thin. 119 unblocked attempts from a median of 56 feet, 5 per cent from inside 20, and 3 goals. 21 goals in 604 career games.

15 assists from 21 minutes a night is a low return. He is a defensive defenceman who moves it short.

The Physical Game

6-5 and 174 pounds — the most unusual build in this edition, 4 inches taller than Adam Fox and 11 pounds lighter. He defends entirely with reach and stick, because there is no strength to fall back on.

60 penalty minutes suggests he competes; in front of his own net he is moved at will.

The Intangibles

42.5 per cent of the expected goals, 7th percentile, and 43.5 per cent of the shot attempts, sixth — with the chances running 49.5 to 66.9 against across 1,500 minutes and the goals 47-75.

Those are among the worst figures in this book, in a very large sample, in top-4 minutes.

He is 30 and joins a Rangers blue line that already has Schneider at the 10th percentile. New York finished 11th in even-strength expected goals against last season, and this is the sort of addition that does not protect that.

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
82 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
37% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 4th 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 · 1,495 minutes

Expected goals: 42.5%; 7th pct
Shot attempts: 43.5%; 6th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 47 for, 75 against. Expected: 49.5 and 66.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

6th

Numbers

7th

The two rank him within 1 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 — 62 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 20.8 mph; 21st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.10 a game
Distance: 2.90 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.6 mph; 45th 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 4 assists, 14 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with VAN · 1495 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: VAN took 43.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.5% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,495 minutes at five-on-five — 97th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Tom Willander	41.3%	43.3%	39.4%
Drew O'Connor	43.0%	42.4%	46.1%
Filip Hronek	46.3%	41.1%	44.7%

41.3% together, 43.3% for him apart and 39.4% for Willander 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

119 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 34 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.