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Mark Stone

63 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and the 96th percentile.

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

2012-13	OTT	4	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	3	0.0	10:00
2013-14	OTT	19	4	4	8	+5	4	1	0	0	36	11.1	14:29
2014-15	OTT	80	26	38	64	+21	14	5	1	6	157	16.6	17:01
2015-16	OTT	75	23	38	61	-4	38	5	1	1	151	15.2	20:07
2016-17	OTT	71	22	32	54	+12	25	6	0	5	134	16.4	18:34
2017-18	OTT	58	20	42	62	+9	10	1	1	3	132	15.2	20:40
2018-19	OTT/VGK	77	33	40	73	+17	27	6	1	4	199	16.6	19:53
2019-20	VGK	65	21	42	63	+15	27	6	0	3	168	12.5	19:25
2020-21	VGK	55	21	40	61	+26	28	6	1	8	98	21.4	19:04
2021-22	VGK	37	9	21	30	+7	8	3	0	2	71	12.7	18:21
2022-23	VGK	43	17	21	38	+11	10	3	2	1	113	15.0	19:23
2023-24	VGK	56	16	37	53	+1	22	4	2	5	117	13.7	19:24
2024-25	VGK	66	19	48	67	+22	14	5	0	4	131	14.5	19:15
2025-26	VGK	60	28	45	73	+26	9	9	1	4	130	21.5	19:13
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	766	259	448	707	+167	238	60	10	46	1640	15.8	19:01

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

28 goals and 45 assists in 60 games — 73 points, plus-26, at 19:13 a night with 9 power-play goals and only 9 penalty minutes. 22 games missed.

His 766th career game and his 707th point.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is one of the best in the league. 196 unblocked attempts with 63 per cent from inside 20 feet and a median of 13 — level with Tkachuk and Bertuzzi for the closest work of any forward with 50 attempts — and 28 goals out of it.

28 goals in 60 games at 34 is a career-best rate, and it comes entirely from where he shoots.

45 assists is the other half and the stick-checking that produces the turnovers is a third.

The Physical Game

6-3, 210, and he is not fast and never was. 9 penalty minutes across 60 games is one of the lowest rates in this edition.

The back has cost him large parts of 4 seasons and 22 games missed is now the expectation rather than the exception.

The Intangibles

59.8 per cent of the expected goals, 99th percentile — the best figure on the club — and 55.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 91st, across 843 minutes, with the chances 39.0 to 26.1 in his favour.

11 points in his last 10, 7 of them goals.

He is 34, a 178th overall pick, the captain, and a Conn Smythe winner. When he plays, this club is the best in the league; the record over 4 seasons is that he plays about 70 per cent of the time.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
73.0% of his attempts in the slot, 98th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
disciplined· stays out of the box
0.15 penalty minutes a game over 60, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
59.8% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 51.8% for his club in the minutes he sat: +8.0, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 843 minutes

Expected goals: 59.8%; 99th pct
Shot attempts: 55.6%; 92nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 50 for, 31 against. Expected: 39.0 and 26.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

98th

Numbers

99th

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 — 84 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 · 60 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 59th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.58 a game
Distance: 2.86 miles a game
Hardest shot: 97.3 mph; 99th 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 — 7 goals, 4 assists, 25 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 826 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: VGK took 53.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 59.8% — 6.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 843 minutes at five-on-five — 41st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ivan Barbashev	57.4%	64.0%	54.5%
Jack Eichel	59.3%	60.6%	55.6%
Shea Theodore	60.2%	59.6%	54.7%

57.4% together, 64.0% for him apart and 54.5% for Barbashev apart. He was better away from Barbashev, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Barbashev.

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

196 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 28 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 63% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.