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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | WSH | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 15:59 |
| 2021-22 | WSH | 79 | 8 | 9 | 17 | +15 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 96 | 8.3 | 19:39 |
| 2022-23 | WSH | 67 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -11 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 6.6 | 20:00 |
| 2023-24 | WSH | 66 | 3 | 13 | 16 | -7 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 4.9 | 19:38 |
| 2024-25 | WSH | 81 | 5 | 20 | 25 | +18 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 6.6 | 19:00 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 299 | 22 | 53 | 75 | +13 | 112 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 331 | 6.7 | 19:29 |
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
5 goals and 20 assists in 81 games — 25 points at 19:00 a night, plus-18, on 76 shots, and 25 penalty minutes.
51.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 78th percentile. His ice went 52-50 against an expectation of 51.52-48.12 — nineteen goals better than expected for and nine fewer conceded, which is the best on-ice differential on this blue line by a distance.
The Finesse Game
76 attempts in 81 games at a median of 56 feet with 76 per cent from beyond 40 and 6 per cent from inside 20, and 5 goals. 22 goals in 299 career games.
20 assists is a career high. The first pass is quick and correct and there is nothing beyond it — he does not hold the puck and he does not attempt anything that becomes a rush the other way.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 215 and he clears the front of his own net by force. He finishes checks that hurt, he blocks shots, and he defends the rush by closing the gap early rather than backing in.
25 penalty minutes in 81 games at nineteen a night is a low rate for a defenceman playing this way. He does not retaliate.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2018 — 46th overall — out of Bratislava, and 299 games, all of it here, five seasons in.
He is 26. He has been a top-four defenceman on this club since he was 22 and has never scored more than 25 points, which is exactly the player he was drafted to be.
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
- 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.
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**6-2 and 215 and he clears the front of his own net by force.** He finishes checks that hurt, he blocks shots, and he defends the rush by closing the gap early rather than backing in.”
“He finishes checks that hurt, he blocks shots, and he defends the rush by closing the gap early rather than backing in.”
“He finishes checks that hurt, he blocks shots, and he defends the rush by closing the gap early rather than backing in.”
“He does not retaliate.”
“**The first pass is quick and correct and there is nothing beyond it** — he does not hold the puck and he does not attempt anything that becomes a rush the other way.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,204 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.7%
- 68th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.8%
- 62nd 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: 52 for, 50 against. Expected: 51.5 and 48.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 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 — 74 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 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 23.3 mph
- 96th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.52 a game
- Distance
- 2.52 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.8 mph
- 58th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 · 1204 minutes at five-on-five
- Matt Roy48%
- John Carlson24%
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
- WSH took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.7% — 0.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,204 minutes at five-on-five — 85th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Roy | 49.5% | 53.6% | 49.8% |
| Pierre-Luc Dubois | 52.8% | 51.3% | 56.7% |
| Aliaksei Protas | 51.7% | 51.7% | 53.8% |
49.5% together, 53.6% for him apart and 49.8% for Roy apart. He was better away from Roy, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Roy.
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
118 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 32 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.