Parker Wotherspoon

30 points, plus 17, and no shots at all from inside 20 feet.

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

2022-23	NYI	12	0	1	1	+5	4	0	0	0	10	0.0	13:20
2023-24	BOS	41	0	8	8	+6	31	0	0	0	32	0.0	17:43
2024-25	BOS	55	1	6	7	-10	10	0	0	0	44	2.3	18:02
2025-26	PIT	80	3	27	30	+17	55	0	0	1	70	4.3	20:10
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	188	4	42	46	+18	100	0	0	1	156	2.6	18:34

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 27 assists in 80 games — 30 points, plus-17, at 20:10 a night with 55 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Pittsburgh.

His 188th career game.

The Finesse Game

94 unblocked attempts from a median of 53 feet, 70 per cent from beyond 40, and not one of them from inside 20 feet — no other defenceman in this edition took 90 shots without once entering the slot.

3 goals. 4 goals in 188 career games.

27 assists is a genuinely strong return and a career high by 20 — it is all first pass, and the first pass is the whole player.

The Physical Game

6-1, 190, and light. 55 penalty minutes in 20 minutes a night is a moderately high rate.

He defends with stick and position, blocks shots, and is moved out of his own crease by heavy forwards.

The Intangibles

51.2 per cent of the expected goals, 65th percentile, and 52.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 76th, across 1,402 minutes in Pittsburgh.

20 minutes a night on a club that finished 4th at generating even-strength offence, and level chance share out of it, is a good season for a player who was a spare part until he was 27.

He is 29, a fourth-round pick, and joins a blue line with Theodore, Hanifin and Andersson. He is the fourth option and probably the cheapest useful one in the league.

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.

durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,402 minutes

Expected goals: 51.2%; 65th pct
Shot attempts: 52.3%; 76th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 70 for, 58 against. Expected: 61.2 and 58.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

44th

Numbers

65th

The numbers rank him 21 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 — 71 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 · 80 games

Top speed: 21.7 mph; 50th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.29 a game
Distance: 2.75 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.1 mph; 48th 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, 8 assists, 11 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with PIT · 1402 minutes at five-on-five

Erik Karlsson78%

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: PIT took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.2% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,402 minutes at five-on-five — 93rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Erik Karlsson	52.6%	45.6%	50.9%
Sidney Crosby	47.1%	53.4%	52.9%
Bryan Rust	44.7%	54.7%	50.6%

52.6% together, 45.6% for him apart and 50.9% for Karlsson apart. He was worse away from Karlsson, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Karlsson did.

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

94 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 60 feet. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 70% from beyond forty.