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Patrick Kane
Detroit Red Wings Right Wing
59 points at 36 on a rebuilt hip, and 12 power-play goals on the league's 2nd-best unit.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1302 | 492 | 851 | 1343 | 0 | 454 | 138 | 0 | 81 | 4233 | 11.6 | 20:03 |
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
21 goals and 38 assists in 72 games for 59 points, minus-16, on 17:59 a night with 12 on the power play and 6 game-winners.
48.3 per cent at five-on-five, the 36th percentile. His on-ice goals were 30-28 against an expected 39-42 — 13 goals against on chances that were roughly even, which is the second-worst gap on the roster.
The Finesse Game
The hands and the vision are still the best on the club and possibly among the best of the last twenty years. He sees a pass nobody else is looking for, delays until the lane opens rather than forcing it, and the release from the circle has not slowed.
38 assists at 36 on a rebuilt hip is a genuine achievement. 175 shots and 21 goals at 12 per cent is a fair rate. Everything he produces now happens in a small area with the puck on his stick; there is no rush game and there has not been for years.
The Physical Game
5-10 and 176, and there is nothing here and never was. He does not forecheck, does not win pucks, and does not go near the net front.
12 penalty minutes over 72 games. The hip resurfacing surgery in 2023 was career-threatening and the fact that he has played two useful seasons since is the surprise, not the decline.
The Intangibles
Three Cups, a Conn Smythe, twelve hundred points, and a late career spent making a rebuilding club’s power play work.
At 36 the honest projection is 50 points, a power-play job, and a five-on-five chance share the club has to hide. The value is real and it is nearly all on the man advantage.
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 sees a pass nobody else is looking for, delays until the lane opens rather than forcing it, and the release from the circle has not slowed.”
“He does not forecheck, does not win pucks, and does not go near the net front.”
“He does not forecheck, does not win pucks, and does not go near the net front.”
“He does not forecheck, does not win pucks, and does not go near the net front.”
“there is no rush game and there has not been for years”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 955 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.3%
- 37th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.7%
- 31st 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: 30 for, 28 against. Expected: 39.0 and 41.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 12 points of one another. 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.
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 — 72 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 · 72 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 44th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.35 a game
- Distance
- 2.99 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 79.2 mph
- 17th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 955 minutes at five-on-five
- Andrew Copp27%
- J.T. Compher26%
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
- DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.3% — 0.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 955 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex DeBrincat | 52.6% | 38.2% | 48.6% |
| Ben Chiarot | 43.0% | 51.2% | 45.5% |
| Moritz Seider | 47.5% | 48.7% | 51.1% |
52.6% together, 38.2% for him apart and 48.6% for DeBrincat 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
251 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.