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Mark Stone
Vegas Golden Knights Right Wing
Fifty-three per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet, 67 points in 66 games, and a captain who has won everything and been available for none of it.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 706 | 231 | 403 | 634 | +141 | 229 | 51 | 9 | 42 | 1510 | 15.3 | 18:60 |
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
19 goals and 48 assists in 66 games — 67 points at 19:15 a night, plus-22, with 5 power-play goals and 4 game-winners on 131 shots, and 14 penalty minutes.
56.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 92nd percentile. His ice went 46-32 against an expectation of 42.44-32.80, which is a line that got almost exactly what its chances predicted at both ends.
The Finesse Game
131 attempts at a median of 20 feet with 53 per cent from inside 20 and 12 per cent from beyond 40 — one of the least perimeter profiles in this edition — converting at 14.5 per cent.
48 assists in 66 games is the better half. He plays a slow, exact game: he holds the puck below the goal line until the defence loses its shape, and the pass arrives at the moment a teammate becomes open rather than before it.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 210 and he wins pucks by taking them rather than by hitting anybody. He is among the very best stick-checkers in the league and has been for a decade — the takeaway numbers have led the league repeatedly, and it comes from reading the play rather than from speed.
14 penalty minutes in 66 games. He does not foul, he does not retaliate, and the physical game is entirely about possession.
The Intangibles
A sixth-round pick in 2010 — 178th overall — and 706 games and 634 points, with a Stanley Cup and the Conn Smythe conversation in 2023.
He is 33 and has played more than 70 games once in six seasons, through a back that has required surgery twice and a lacerated spleen. When he is available this club is a different team, and it has planned around him not being.
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.
- 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.
“131 attempts at a median of 20 feet with **53 per cent from inside 20 and 12 per cent from beyond 40** — one of the least perimeter profiles in this edition — converting at 14.5 per cent.”
“**48 assists in 66 games is the better half.** He plays a slow, exact game: he holds the puck below the goal line until the defence loses its shape, and the pass arrives at the moment a teammate becomes open rather than before it.”
“**He is among the very best stick-checkers in the league and has been for a decade** — the takeaway numbers have led the league repeatedly, and it comes from reading the play rather than from speed.”
“6-3 and 210 and he wins pucks by taking them rather than by hitting anybody.”
“He does not foul, he does not retaliate, and the physical game is entirely about possession.”
“He is 33 and has played more than 70 games once in six seasons, through a back that has required surgery twice and a lacerated spleen.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 920 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.4%
- 95th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.6%
- 79th 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: 46 for, 32 against. Expected: 42.4 and 32.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 points of one another. 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.
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 — 85 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 · 66 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 25th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.38 a game
- Distance
- 2.80 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.8 mph
- 96th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 920 minutes at five-on-five
- Jack Eichel81%
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
- VGK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.4% — 2.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 920 minutes at five-on-five — 49th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Eichel | 55.4% | 61.3% | 54.3% |
| Ivan Barbashev | 53.0% | 60.8% | 54.5% |
| Alex Pietrangelo | 58.0% | 55.3% | 51.8% |
55.4% together, 61.3% for him apart and 54.3% for Eichel apart. He was better away from Eichel, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Eichel.
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
173 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.