This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
| 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.
52.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 78th percentile. His ice went 71-38 against an expectation of 52.21-46.52 — 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,204 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.9%
- 78th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.2%
- 67th 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: 71 for, 38 against. Expected: 52.2 and 46.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 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.
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 52.9% — 2.1 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 | 50.3% | 55.1% | 48.8% |
| Nic Dowd | 56.9% | 51.4% | 48.4% |
| Pierre-Luc Dubois | 51.8% | 53.3% | 54.6% |
50.3% together, 55.1% for him apart and 48.8% 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.