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Patrick Kane

19 seasons, 1,400 points, and he is still the best passer on the ice most nights.

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

2007-08	CHI	82	21	51	72	-5	52	7	0	4	191	11.0	18:22
2008-09	CHI	80	25	45	70	-2	42	13	0	4	254	9.8	18:40
2009-10	CHI	82	30	58	88	+16	20	9	0	6	261	11.5	19:12
2010-11	CHI	73	27	46	73	+7	28	5	0	2	216	12.5	19:17
2011-12	CHI	82	23	43	66	+7	40	4	0	5	253	9.1	20:12
2012-13	CHI	47	23	32	55	+11	8	8	0	3	138	16.7	20:03
2013-14	CHI	69	29	40	69	+7	22	10	0	6	227	12.8	19:37
2014-15	CHI	61	27	37	64	+10	10	6	0	5	186	14.5	19:51
2015-16	CHI	82	46	60	106	+17	30	17	0	9	287	16.0	20:25
2016-17	CHI	82	34	55	89	+11	32	7	0	5	292	11.6	21:24
2017-18	CHI	82	27	49	76	-20	32	5	0	4	285	9.5	20:11
2018-19	CHI	81	44	66	110	+2	22	9	0	7	341	12.9	22:29
2019-20	CHI	70	33	51	84	+8	40	8	0	2	275	12.0	21:20
2020-21	CHI	56	15	51	66	-7	14	3	0	3	191	7.8	22:14
2021-22	CHI	78	26	66	92	-19	18	9	0	2	287	9.1	21:49
2022-23	CHI/NYR	73	21	36	57	-22	16	4	0	1	227	9.3	19:18
2023-24	DET	50	20	27	47	-5	16	2	0	7	147	13.6	18:23
2024-25	DET	72	21	38	59	-16	12	12	0	6	175	12.0	17:59
2025-26	DET	67	16	41	57	-1	16	2	0	4	169	9.5	17:42
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1369	508	892	1400	-1	470	140	0	85	4402	11.5	19:56

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

16 goals and 41 assists in 67 games — 57 points, minus-1, at 17:42 a night. His 5-on-5 work was done in Detroit. His 1,369th career game and his 1,400th point.

The Finesse Game

The hands and the head have not gone anywhere and they are the only 2 things that ever mattered. 41 assists at 37 years old, most of them made from a standstill on the half-wall, waiting for a lane that nobody else on the ice can see yet.

The shot has drifted outward — 29 per cent of his unblocked attempts from inside 20 feet, median 30 — and 16 goals is what that produces now.

He was never fast. He is now slow, and it has cost him less than it would cost anybody else, because his game was always played in the half-second before the check arrives rather than in the race to the puck.

The Physical Game

5-10 and 176 pounds at 37. 16 penalty minutes. There is no physical game, there never was one, and 1,369 games is the argument that it was not required.

The Intangibles

508 goals, 892 assists, 3 Stanley Cups, and a Conn Smythe. He returns to the club he won them with, which is either sentiment or a genuine attempt to give Bedard somebody who has done it.

The 5-on-5 numbers last season were respectable — 51.0 per cent of the expected goals, 63rd percentile — on a considerably better team than this one, and they will not survive the move.

He is 37 and this is almost certainly the last stretch. Watch it while it is on.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 930 minutes

Expected goals: 51%; 64th pct
Shot attempts: 50.2%; 60th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 43 for, 41 against. Expected: 42.0 and 40.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

44th

Numbers

64th

Blind

49th

The 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.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 15 points from the numbers; this one lands 20. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.

All three 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 · 67 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 78th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.13 a game
Distance: 2.90 miles a game
Hardest shot: 76.5 mph; 11th 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 — 4 goals, 10 assists, 22 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with DET · 930 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: DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.0% — 2.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 930 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Alex DeBrincat	50.5%	53.1%	54.8%
Andrew Copp	52.3%	49.3%	47.3%
Moritz Seider	57.5%	46.3%	55.1%

50.5% together, 53.1% for him apart and 54.8% for DeBrincat apart. DeBrincat was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

243 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 29% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.