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Miles Wood

37 games, 8 points, and 48 penalty minutes — a fourth-line winger acquired mainly to take a contract.

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

2015-16	NJD	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	13:06
2016-17	NJD	60	8	9	17	-21	86	2	0	0	105	7.6	12:51
2017-18	NJD	76	19	13	32	-6	84	3	0	2	170	11.2	12:28
2018-19	NJD	63	10	14	24	-10	91	1	0	1	159	6.3	13:42
2019-20	NJD	68	11	12	23	-19	57	0	0	1	141	7.8	13:14
2020-21	NJD	55	17	8	25	-6	29	3	0	2	127	13.4	14:59
2021-22	NJD	3	0	0	0	-2	4	0	0	0	2	0.0	14:46
2022-23	NJD	76	13	14	27	+1	76	2	0	2	167	7.8	12:06
2023-24	COL	74	9	17	26	-5	75	0	1	1	167	5.4	13:41
2024-25	COL	37	4	4	8	-5	48	0	0	1	60	6.7	11:21
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	513	91	91	182	-73	550	11	1	10	1100	8.3	13:05

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 4 assists in 37 games for 8 points, minus-5, on 11:21 a night with Colorado.

47.2 per cent at five-on-five, the 27th percentile, over 360 minutes. 60 shots and 4 goals, and 48 penalty minutes in 37 games.

The Finesse Game

Almost none. The hands do not function at the speed his feet move, which has been the story of a ten-year career — he arrives at pucks first and cannot do anything useful when he gets there.

8 points in 37 games is not a slump. He has cleared 30 points twice in ten seasons.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 209, and the speed is genuinely elite — he is among the fastest forwards in the league in a straight line and he plays a violent, reckless forechecking game with it.

48 penalty minutes in 37 games is a very high rate and it is not incidental. On a club that finished 22nd on the penalty kill, adding him is a decision with a measurable cost.

The Intangibles

A fourth-round pick, ten NHL seasons on speed and aggression, and a summer trade that was as much about salary as about hockey.

The projection is a fourth-line winger who is dangerous shorthanded and expensive at even strength. At 30 the legs are still there; nothing else ever arrived.

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.

a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

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.

forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“he is among the fastest forwards in the league in a straight line and he plays a violent, reckless forechecking game with it”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“he is among the fastest forwards in the league in a straight line and he plays a violent, reckless forechecking game with it”
nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“48 penalty minutes in 37 games is a very high rate and it is not incidental.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“The projection is a fourth-line winger who is dangerous shorthanded and expensive at even strength.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 360 minutes

Expected goals: 47.2%; 28th pct
Shot attempts: 49.8%; 50th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 12 for, 13 against. Expected: 13.0 and 14.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

30th

Numbers

28th

The two rank him within 2 points of one another. 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.

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 — 69 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 · 37 games

Top speed: 24.8 mph; 100th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 3.62 a game
Distance: 1.90 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.3 mph; 62nd 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with COL · 360 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, 2024-25

The club: COL took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.2% — 6.0 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 360 minutes at five-on-five — 9th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Parker Kelly	45.9%	47.9%	52.0%
Sam Malinski	55.5%	43.1%	49.1%
Samuel Girard	47.1%	47.3%	53.5%

45.9% together, 47.9% for him apart and 52.0% for Kelly apart. Kelly was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for 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

88 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.