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Miles Wood
Columbus Blue Jackets Left Wing
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.
47.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 29th 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 25th 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 360 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.7%
- 29th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.9%
- 51st 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: 14 for, 13 against. Expected: 13.2 and 14.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe 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 357 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with COL · 360 minutes at five-on-five
- Parker Kelly36%
- Ross Colton31%
- Jack Drury28%
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 47.7% — 5.5 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 | 50.1% | 46.4% | 53.5% |
| Sam Malinski | 55.2% | 43.6% | 49.3% |
| Samuel Girard | 50.2% | 46.3% | 53.8% |
50.1% together, 46.4% for him apart and 53.5% for Kelly apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Kelly 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
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.