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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Mason Marchment

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Mason Marchment

San Jose Sharks Left Wing #27

6-5, undrafted, and plus 17.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2019-20TOR40110000030.08:05
2020-21FLA332810+418000504.014:08
2021-22FLA54182947+295310212114.914:07
2022-23DAL68121931-6802021488.115:42
2023-24DAL81223153+225460315014.715:04
2024-25DAL62222547+155350413416.415:20
2025-26SEA/CBJ68192645+175630311916.017:22
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—37095139234+813141701472513.115:21

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

19 goals and 26 assists in 68 games — 45 points, plus-17, at 17:22 a night with 56 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Seattle.

The Finesse Game

Considerably more skill than a man this size is usually credited with. 189 unblocked attempts, 18 goals, median 27 feet with 39 per cent from inside 20.

26 assists in 68 games says the hands are real — he protects the puck below the goal line and finds the back door.

234 points in 370 career games, and he did not play a full NHL season until he was 26.

The Physical Game

6-5 and 212, and he uses it. 56 penalty minutes. He is difficult to move off the wall, wins the front of the net, and forechecks with genuine weight.

The skating is the limitation and it always has been; it is why the size took so long to become useful.

The Intangibles

53.1 per cent of the expected goals, 78th percentile, and 50.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 65th, across 1,007 minutes in Seattle — with the chances 45.5 to 40.1 in his favour.

On a Seattle club where 3 of the 5 busiest skaters finished at or below the 12th percentile, that is a striking figure, and it is the best evidence on this page.

He is 31, undrafted, and arrives on a San Jose roster whose 2 best players are 20 and 21 and weigh 190 and 180 pounds. A 6-5 winger who can play with them is worth more here than the points say.

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

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.

  • workhorse· carries the load at even strength

    14:49 a game at five-on-five, 91st percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% 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

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,007 minutes

Expected goals
53.1%
78th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
50.8%
66th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 48 for, 28 against. Expected: 45.5 and 40.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
82nd
Numbers
78th

The two rank him within 4 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 — 78 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 · 68 games

Top speed
21.5 mph
20th pct

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

Bursts over 20 mph
0.38 a game

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

Distance
2.76 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
87.2 mph
64th 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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

9

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 7 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with CBJ · 569 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
CBJ took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.1% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 1,007 minutes at five-on-five — 61st percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Adam Fantilli55.0%51.3%50.7%
Kirill Marchenko54.6%52.1%51.9%
Ivan Provorov55.4%52.3%50.3%

55.0% together, 51.3% for him apart and 50.7% for Fantilli apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

189 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.