Miro Heiskanen

25 and a half minutes a night on the fourth-best defensive team in the league.

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

2018-19	DAL	82	12	21	33	-14	16	2	0	4	182	6.6	23:07
2019-20	DAL	68	8	27	35	+14	12	0	0	0	163	4.9	23:46
2020-21	DAL	55	8	19	27	-9	12	3	0	1	121	6.6	24:58
2021-22	DAL	70	5	31	36	+3	24	3	0	1	156	3.2	24:53
2022-23	DAL	79	11	62	73	+12	32	2	0	2	206	5.3	25:29
2023-24	DAL	71	9	45	54	+8	36	2	0	2	162	5.6	24:32
2024-25	DAL	50	5	20	25	+7	10	0	0	0	108	4.6	25:10
2025-26	DAL	77	9	54	63	+9	30	2	1	3	148	6.1	25:28
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	552	67	279	346	+30	172	14	1	13	1246	5.4	24:38

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

9 goals and 54 assists in 77 games — 63 points, plus-9, at 25:28 a night, the heaviest workload on the club.

The Finesse Game

The skating is the best of any defenceman in this book and it is not close — effortless, 4-directional, and fast enough that he retrieves pucks he has no business reaching. He exits the zone by simply leaving with it.

54 assists is a top-5 figure at the position. The shot is a means rather than an end: 222 unblocked attempts, median 45 feet, 9 goals.

The Physical Game

6-2, 197, and he defends almost entirely without contact. 30 penalty minutes in 77 games of the hardest available minutes.

That works because he is never beaten to a puck, and it is the part of his game that a heavy series tests. He is not clearing anybody from in front of his own net.

The Intangibles

54.2 per cent of the expected goals, 83rd percentile, and 49.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 52nd — on a club that gave up volume by design and finished 7th in the league in even-strength expected goals against.

That is the Dallas system stated in 1 player: concede the outside, take away the middle, and let the goaltender see it.

He is 27, the third pick in 2017, and 346 points into 552 games. No goals in his last 10. He is the most important defenceman in this section and the club’s whole defensive structure is built around what he can cover.

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.

drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
54.2% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 48.6% for his club in the minutes he sat: +5.6, 95th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,354 minutes

Expected goals: 54.2%; 83rd pct
Shot attempts: 49.6%; 53rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 58 for, 46 against. Expected: 55.7 and 47.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

86th

Numbers

83rd

The two rank him within 3 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 — 79 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 · 77 games

Top speed: 22.5 mph; 80th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.92 a game
Distance: 3.49 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.6 mph; 45th 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 — 0 goals, 6 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1354 minutes at five-on-five

Esa Lindell76%
Thomas Harley11%

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: DAL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.2% — 3.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,354 minutes at five-on-five — 91st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Esa Lindell	54.7%	52.5%	53.3%
Jason Robertson	57.3%	52.1%	54.4%
Wyatt Johnston	56.0%	52.9%	47.8%

54.7% together, 52.5% for him apart and 53.3% for Lindell apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

222 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 32 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 59% from beyond forty.