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Martin Pospisil

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Martin Pospisil

Calgary Flames Center #76

22 games, 173 pounds, and a body that keeps stopping him.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24CGY6381624+141090011176.812:43
2024-25CGY8142125+3841001143.513:48
2025-26CGY22123-417000195.310:09
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—166133952+132101012505.212:54

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

1 goal and 2 assists in 22 games, minus-4, at 10:09 a night with 17 penalty minutes. 60 games missed.

The Finesse Game

There is a decent passer in here — 39 assists in 166 career games is a real rate for a bottom-6 forward — and almost none of it appeared last season.

28 unblocked attempts, 1 goal, median distance 33 feet. 19 shots on goal across 22 games is not enough to say anything.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 173 pounds, and that is the problem written down. He plays an aggressive, agitating, contact-seeking game in a body that cannot take it, and the result is a career of interruptions.

17 penalty minutes in 22 games says the style has not changed.

The Intangibles

215 5-on-5 minutes, and the numbers are ugly — 42.3 per cent of the expected goals, 6th percentile — with far too small a sample to mean much.

He is 26 and has 166 games across 3 seasons. The compete is genuine and admirable and it is also the thing breaking him. Until he can either add 15 pounds or play a less violent game, this is what the seasons will look like.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 215 minutes

Expected goals
42.3%
6th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48.5%
42nd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 4 for, 8 against. Expected: 6.6 and 9.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
15th
Numbers
6th

The two rank him within 9 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 — 65 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 · 22 games

Top speed
21.6 mph
25th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.36 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.64 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
84.7 mph
49th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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 12 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

3

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 2 assists, 13 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 215 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
CGY took 47.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.3% — 4.7 below the club he did it on.
The role
215 minutes at five-on-five — 1st percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Adam Klapka39.3%44.3%46.5%
Connor Zary51.9%37.4%47.5%
Kevin Bahl38.8%44.1%44.7%

39.3% together, 44.3% for him apart and 46.5% for Klapka apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

28 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 25% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 36% from beyond forty.