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Martin Pospisil
Calgary Flames Center
25 points, 84 penalty minutes, and 173 pounds of the most irritating hockey in the league.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | CGY | 63 | 8 | 16 | 24 | +14 | 109 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 117 | 6.8 | 12:43 |
| 2024-25 | CGY | 81 | 4 | 21 | 25 | +3 | 84 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 3.5 | 13:48 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 144 | 12 | 37 | 49 | +17 | 193 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 231 | 5.2 | 13:20 |
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
4 goals and 21 assists in 81 games for 25 points, plus-3, on 13:48 a night with 84 penalty minutes.
47.6 per cent at five-on-five, the 31st percentile. 114 shots and 4 goals at 3.5 per cent, which is the lowest conversion rate of any regular forward in this edition.
The Finesse Game
There is almost none in the finishing — 4 goals on 114 attempts is a genuine inability rather than bad luck — and there is more than expected in the passing. 21 assists from a fourth-line role is a real total and comes from him winning pucks and moving them immediately.
He does not shoot well, does not carry the puck, and does not need to.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 173, which is extraordinarily light for the way he plays. He hits everything, he is in every scrum, and he is among the most genuinely disliked opponents in the league.
84 penalty minutes is the third-highest on the club. The frame is the concern — a man who plays this way at this weight will have seasons ended for him, and he has already missed significant time twice.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick out of Slovakia, three American League seasons, and an NHL job earned entirely on being impossible to play against.
The projection is a third-line agitator who kills penalties and takes too many of them. The 4 goals are the ceiling problem; there is no version of this player who scores 15.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
30.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
62% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“He hits everything, he is in every scrum, and he is among the most genuinely disliked opponents in the league.”
“He hits everything, he is in every scrum, and he is among the most genuinely disliked opponents in the league.”
“He hits everything, he is in every scrum, and he is among the most genuinely disliked opponents in the league.”
“The projection is a third-line agitator who kills penalties and takes too many of them.”
“21 assists from a fourth-line role is a real total and comes from him winning pucks and moving them immediately.”
“He does not shoot well, does not carry the puck, and does not need to.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 996 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.6%
- 32nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 54%
- 88th 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: 41 for, 38 against. Expected: 35.5 and 39.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 34 points above where the numbers do. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 75 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
- 24.1 mph
- 99th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.20 a game
- Distance
- 2.21 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.4 mph
- 81st 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 · 996 minutes at five-on-five
- Nazem Kadri60%
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
- CGY took 48.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 996 minutes at five-on-five — 60th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nazem Kadri | 48.9% | 45.5% | 48.5% |
| Jonathan Huberdeau | 50.0% | 45.8% | 48.5% |
| MacKenzie Weegar | 52.5% | 44.5% | 50.4% |
48.9% together, 45.5% for him apart and 48.5% for Kadri apart. He was worse away from Kadri, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Kadri did.
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
169 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 33% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.