Mikey Anderson

A fourth-round pick who quietly plays the hardest defensive minutes on the team and produces almost nothing, on purpose.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2019-20	LAK	6	1	0	1	+4	0	0	0	1	9	11.1	18:09
2020-21	LAK	54	1	10	11	0	30	0	0	1	52	1.9	21:11
2021-22	LAK	57	2	6	8	+6	8	0	0	1	58	3.5	20:07
2022-23	LAK	77	5	15	20	+20	40	1	0	1	90	5.6	21:40
2023-24	LAK	74	2	16	18	+22	18	0	0	0	89	2.3	20:38
2024-25	LAK	77	6	18	24	+17	28	0	0	0	84	7.1	22:41
2025-26	LAK	80	4	16	20	+8	22	0	0	1	61	6.6	20:34
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	425	21	81	102	+77	146	1	0	5	443	4.7	21:09

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

4 goals and 20 points in 80 games, plus-8, on 20 and a half minutes a night — the most 5-on-5 ice time on the roster. He spent 64 percent of it partnered with Doughty.

The Finesse Game

Minimal by design. He does not carry the puck, does not activate, and shoots as little as any defenceman playing this many minutes. What he does is get the puck out of his own end quickly and without drama, which is a skill that gets overlooked precisely because nothing memorable happens when it works.

The skating is good enough to defend the rush against fast wingers, and the gap control is genuinely excellent — he closes early and forces attackers to make a decision before they have their options.

The Physical Game

6 feet even and 195, which is small for the assignment, and he handles it through positioning and willingness rather than mass. He gets his body in lanes, blocks shots, and battles in front without being able to simply remove people from the crease.

He plays through injuries and does not miss games.

The Intangibles

Every good team has one of these, and most of them are more expensive. He takes the other team’s best line every night, gets no power-play time and no attention, and his own coaching staff talks about him more than anyone outside the market does.

The read on him is straightforward: this is what he is, he is very good at it, and the only risk is that a defenceman this reliant on positioning ages badly if a step goes.

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.

durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,438 minutes

Expected goals: 51.1%; 64th pct
Shot attempts: 50.5%; 64th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 53 for, 47 against. Expected: 57.2 and 54.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

82nd

Numbers

64th

The two rank him within 18 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 · 80 games

Top speed: 21.1 mph; 29th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.06 a game
Distance: 2.79 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.1 mph; 18th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 6 assists, 13 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1438 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: LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 0.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,438 minutes at five-on-five — 94th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Drew Doughty	53.5%	46.8%	57.5%
Alex Laferriere	51.8%	50.7%	53.1%
Quinton Byfield	52.2%	50.4%	53.5%

53.5% together, 46.8% for him apart and 57.5% for Doughty apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Doughty and did not follow him.

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

100 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 51 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.