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Mark Scheifele

100-point centre at 33 who has spent his whole career being told what he is not.

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

2011-12	WPG	7	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	20.0	10:57
2012-13	WPG	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	11:32
2013-14	WPG	63	13	21	34	+9	14	1	0	2	100	13.0	16:21
2014-15	WPG	82	15	34	49	+11	24	3	0	2	170	8.8	18:35
2015-16	WPG	71	29	32	61	+16	48	7	0	3	194	14.9	18:33
2016-17	WPG	79	32	50	82	+18	38	7	0	5	160	20.0	20:34
2017-18	WPG	60	23	37	60	+19	18	8	2	3	125	18.4	20:41
2018-19	WPG	82	38	46	84	+8	38	12	0	6	199	19.1	21:52
2019-20	WPG	71	29	44	73	+2	45	10	0	6	170	17.1	21:48
2020-21	WPG	56	21	42	63	-4	12	4	0	4	126	16.7	20:58
2021-22	WPG	67	29	41	70	-17	23	7	0	3	159	18.2	21:08
2022-23	WPG	81	42	26	68	-16	43	12	0	10	206	20.4	20:29
2023-24	WPG	74	25	47	72	+19	57	6	0	4	154	16.2	20:11
2024-25	WPG	82	39	48	87	+12	61	11	0	11	181	21.6	20:26
2025-26	WPG	82	36	67	103	0	43	7	0	6	175	20.6	21:30
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	961	372	535	907	+77	464	96	2	65	2130	17.5	20:10

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

36 goals and 67 assists in all 82 games for 103 points, 7 on the power play, on 21 and a half minutes a night. He spent 90 percent of his 5-on-5 ice time with Kyle Connor, which is the tightest forward partnership in this edition.

The Finesse Game

The release is the thing people underrate. He shoots quickly off the catch from the top of the circle and scores a lot of goals that look routine because he has already found the space before the puck arrives. 36 goals on 175 shots is a conversion rate very few centres sustain.

The playmaking is the larger part now. He holds the puck below the goal line, waits for a defenceman to commit, and slides it back to the winger who has quietly moved to the far post. 67 assists on a line that has been together for years is partly familiarity and mostly him.

The skating is good rather than quick, and it has never been the point.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 207, and he is not a physical centre. He avoids the interior, does not forecheck hard, and can be moved off pucks by a strong defenceman. He has been durable — 3 straight full seasons is real value.

The Intangibles

The criticism has followed him for a decade: defensively casual, quiet in playoff series, not a true first-line centre. Some of it has been fair and less of it is now. He was even on the plus-minus playing the hardest matchups on a team that was outshot.

He is 33 with 100 points and a winger he has played with for most of a decade. What happens when that partnership is broken up is the interesting question, and neither of them has had to answer it.

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
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
16:56 a game at five-on-five, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
66% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,388 minutes

Expected goals: 49.5%; 50th pct
Shot attempts: 49.7%; 54th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 79 for, 73 against. Expected: 62.4 and 63.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

95th

Numbers

50th

The report ranks him 45 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 — 82 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: 23.4 mph; 94th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.48 a game
Distance: 3.54 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.9 mph; 62nd 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 — 4 goals, 13 assists, 22 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1388 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: WPG took 47.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.5% — 2.2 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,388 minutes at five-on-five — 92nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Kyle Connor	49.9%	45.7%	—
Gabriel Vilardi	49.5%	49.6%	48.0%
Josh Morrissey	51.3%	47.7%	48.7%

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

273 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 36 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.