Nick Leddy
San Jose Sharks Defense
1,042 games and 416 points, and 31 of the former last season at 34.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | CHI | 46 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 10.8 | 14:19 |
| 2011-12 | CHI | 82 | 3 | 34 | 37 | -12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 3.2 | 22:05 |
| 2012-13 | CHI | 48 | 6 | 12 | 18 | +15 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 65 | 9.2 | 17:25 |
| 2013-14 | CHI | 82 | 7 | 24 | 31 | +10 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 123 | 5.7 | 16:22 |
| 2014-15 | NYI | 78 | 10 | 27 | 37 | +18 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 120 | 8.3 | 20:22 |
| 2015-16 | NYI | 81 | 5 | 35 | 40 | -9 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 121 | 4.1 | 22:37 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 81 | 11 | 35 | 46 | -3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 137 | 8.0 | 22:43 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 80 | 10 | 32 | 42 | -42 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 153 | 6.5 | 22:25 |
| 2018-19 | NYI | 82 | 4 | 22 | 26 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 116 | 3.5 | 21:33 |
| 2019-20 | NYI | 60 | 3 | 18 | 21 | -1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 4.2 | 21:07 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 56 | 2 | 29 | 31 | -3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 2.5 | 21:35 |
| 2021-22 | DET/STL | 75 | 3 | 21 | 24 | -30 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 4.2 | 21:25 |
| 2022-23 | STL | 78 | 2 | 21 | 23 | +4 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 2.5 | 21:07 |
| 2023-24 | STL | 82 | 3 | 25 | 28 | +14 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 82 | 3.7 | 22:22 |
| 2024-25 | STL | 31 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 9.5 | 18:40 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1042 | 75 | 341 | 416 | -36 | 203 | 19 | 1 | 9 | 1370 | 5.5 | 20:44 |
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
2 goals and 3 assists in 31 games for St. Louis — 5 points at 18:40 a night, plus-6, on 2 penalty minutes.
Thirty-one games is the fewest he has played in a full season since he was a rookie, and he was a healthy scratch for a stretch of it. St. Louis made the playoffs and he did not play a meaningful part in getting them there.
The Finesse Game
21 attempts in 31 games and 2 goals. There is no shot and there has not been one for years.
The skating and the first pass are what have kept him employed for fifteen seasons. He escapes a forecheck by turning away from it and he moves the puck early, and 341 assists in 1,042 games is what that produces.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 205 and he has never been physical. He does not clear a crease, he does not finish checks, and he defends entirely with his feet.
2 penalty minutes in 31 games is close to nothing. He does not foul because he does not engage, which at 34 is either discipline or avoidance depending on how charitable you are.
The Intangibles
Sixteenth overall in 2009 and 1,042 games and 416 points across five organisations, with a Stanley Cup in Chicago in 2013.
He is 34 and San Jose signed him in the summer. On a club with this much youth on the blue line, a veteran who can move the puck and play eighteen minutes is a placeholder rather than a plan.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“He escapes a forecheck by turning away from it and he moves the puck early, and 341 assists in 1,042 games is what that produces.”
“He does not clear a crease, he does not finish checks, and he defends entirely with his feet.”
“He does not clear a crease, he does not finish checks, and he defends entirely with his feet.”
“He does not foul because he does not engage, which at 34 is either discipline or avoidance depending on how charitable you are.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 511 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.5%
- 58th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.3%
- 36th 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: 26 for, 20 against. Expected: 18.2 and 17.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 41 points above where the report does. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 66 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 · 31 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 76th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.77 a game
- Distance
- 2.56 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.5 mph
- 37th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 STL · 511 minutes at five-on-five
- Cam Fowler42%
- Ryan Suteroff the roster27%
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
- STL took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.5% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 511 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cam Fowler | 57.7% | 45.5% | 50.7% |
| Brayden Schenn | 46.5% | 52.5% | 50.0% |
| Dylan Holloway | 50.6% | 50.5% | 55.2% |
57.7% together, 45.5% for him apart and 50.7% for Fowler apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
27 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 66 feet. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.