Armchair Scout
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Max Crozier

Tampa Bay Lightning Defense

Thirty-five games, and the eightieth percentile.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-26351910+740000462.216:01
Career5311112+547000671.515:19

Last Season

One goal and nine assists in 35 games — 10 points, plus-seven, at 16:01 a night with 40 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Sixty-three unblocked attempts from a median of 48 feet, 75 per cent from beyond forty, one goal. Twelve points in 53 career games.

Nine assists in 35 games is a fair rate for a third-pair defenceman and there is no evidence of more.

The Physical Game

Six foot three, 204, and he defends properly for a young player — closes gaps, does not chase, willing in front of his own net. Forty penalty minutes in 35 games is a fairly high rate.

The skating is good and the strength is still arriving.

The Intangibles

Fifty-three point five per cent of the expected goals, 80th percentile, and 53.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 83rd, across 513 minutes.

Those are good numbers and they came on a club where good numbers are the house standard — every Tampa defenceman except Hedman finished above the seventieth percentile in chance share, which makes any individual reading of them difficult.

The goals went 16-21 against him regardless.

Two points in his last ten. He is 26, a fourth-round pick, and the seventh defenceman on a contender. On most rosters he plays.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 513 minutes

Expected goals
53.5%
80th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
53.2%
83rd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 16 for, 21 against. Expected: 21.0 and 18.3.

The eye and the numbers

Report
68
Numbers
80

The eye and the numbers broadly agree on him.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

2

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 2 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 513 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.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

63 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 46 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.