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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | CAR | 79 | 4 | 18 | 22 | -14 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 3.3 | 17:54 |
| 2016-17 | CAR | 81 | 4 | 25 | 29 | -19 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 108 | 3.7 | 17:55 |
| 2017-18 | CAR | 79 | 10 | 22 | 32 | -20 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 165 | 6.1 | 18:52 |
| 2018-19 | CGY | 80 | 5 | 28 | 33 | +18 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 116 | 4.3 | 20:46 |
| 2019-20 | CGY | 70 | 5 | 17 | 22 | -12 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 132 | 3.8 | 21:10 |
| 2020-21 | CGY | 47 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 89 | 4.5 | 20:01 |
| 2021-22 | CGY | 81 | 10 | 38 | 48 | +27 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 189 | 5.3 | 21:18 |
| 2022-23 | CGY | 81 | 7 | 31 | 38 | +2 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176 | 4.0 | 22:39 |
| 2023-24 | CGY/VGK | 80 | 13 | 34 | 47 | +19 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 164 | 7.9 | 23:37 |
| 2024-25 | VGK | 80 | 10 | 29 | 39 | +8 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 145 | 6.9 | 21:33 |
| 2025-26 | VGK | 71 | 3 | 25 | 28 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135 | 2.2 | 22:36 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 829 | 75 | 278 | 353 | +7 | 215 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 1541 | 4.9 | 20:46 |
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
3 goals and 25 assists in 71 games — 28 points, even in plus-minus, at 22:36 a night with only 14 penalty minutes.
His 829th career game and his 353rd point.
The Finesse Game
196 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet, 68 per cent from beyond 40, and only 3 goals — a very poor conversion, and his lowest total in 9 seasons.
25 assists in 71 games is a fair rate. 75 goals in 829 career games.
The skating is genuinely excellent and it is the whole reason a 5th overall pick has played 800 games.
The Physical Game
6-3, 206, and he defends with position and feet rather than by punishing people. 14 penalty minutes across 71 games at 22 minutes a night is among the lowest rates in this edition.
He is strong enough for the front of his net without being physical about it.
The Intangibles
54.9 per cent of the expected goals, 87th percentile, and 53.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 86th, across 1,385 minutes, with the chances 59.0 to 48.5 in his favour.
The goals came out 59-55 on chances 10 goals to the good, which is the same story as Theodore’s and the same story as the club’s.
5 points in his last 10, none of them goals. He is 29, and this is a genuinely good top-pair defenceman whose scoresheet says nothing at all about the season he had.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.20 penalty minutes a game over 71, 6th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:30 a game at five-on-five, 95th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
60% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 94th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,385 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.9%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.8%
- 86th 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: 59 for, 55 against. Expected: 59.0 and 48.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 20 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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 · 71 games
- Top speed
- 23.4 mph
- 98th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.14 a game
- Distance
- 3.31 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.6 mph
- 51st 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 88.9
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
5
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 5 assists, 22 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1367 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
- VGK took 53.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.9% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,385 minutes at five-on-five — 91st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rasmus Andersson | 54.2% | 55.2% | 47.8% |
| Zach Whitecloud | 51.9% | 56.2% | 45.1% |
| Ivan Barbashev | 55.1% | 54.7% | 55.8% |
54.2% together, 55.2% for him apart and 47.8% for Andersson apart. Andersson was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Andersson 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
196 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 57 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 68% from beyond forty.