Philip Tomasino
Pittsburgh Penguins Right Wing
Six game-winning goals in 61 games across two clubs, from a former first-round pick on his second organisation at 23.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | NSH | 76 | 11 | 21 | 32 | +2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 111 | 9.9 | 11:32 |
| 2022-23 | NSH | 31 | 5 | 13 | 18 | +5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 9.3 | 15:36 |
| 2023-24 | NSH | 41 | 7 | 13 | 20 | -6 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 62 | 11.3 | 12:34 |
| 2024-25 | NSH/PIT | 61 | 11 | 13 | 24 | -10 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 104 | 10.6 | 13:04 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 209 | 34 | 60 | 94 | -9 | 49 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 331 | 10.3 | 12:47 |
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
11 goals and 13 assists in 61 games across Nashville and Pittsburgh — 24 points at 13:04 a night, with 3 power-play goals and 6 game-winning goals, on only 8 penalty minutes.
49.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 51st percentile. His ice went 23-31 against an expectation of 27.29-28.38 — five goals better than expected for and eight worse against, on a third line.
The Finesse Game
104 attempts at a median of 22 feet with 44 per cent from inside 20, converting at 10.6 per cent. The shot is quick and the release is the best thing about him.
13 assists in 61 games. The playmaking is ordinary; he is a straight-line winger who gets to the net with speed and finishes what arrives. Six game-winners on eleven goals is a coincidence and it is a pleasant one.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 187 and light. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall against a defenceman.
8 penalty minutes in 61 games. He is disciplined to the point of invisibility in the physical half of the game, which at this size is the correct choice and limits where he can be used.
The Intangibles
Twenty-fourth overall in 2019 and a 32-point rookie season at 20 that has not been built on — 209 games and 94 points across two organisations.
He was traded here for a fourth-round pick in November. He is 24, on a club that needs young forwards more than almost anything, and the ice time is available if he takes it.
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
- 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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.13 penalty minutes a game over 61, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
“he is a straight-line winger who gets to the net with speed and finishes what arrives.”
“He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall against a defenceman.”
“He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall against a defenceman.”
“He is disciplined to the point of invisibility in the physical half of the game, which at this size is the correct choice and limits where he can be used.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 713 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49%
- 45th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.8%
- 71st 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: 23 for, 31 against. Expected: 27.3 and 28.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 20 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 — 68 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 · 61 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 36th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.92 a game
- Distance
- 2.17 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.6 mph
- 36th 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 · 599 minutes at five-on-five
- Kevin Hayes34%
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
- PIT took 49.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.0% — level with the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 713 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evgeni Malkin | 50.3% | 48.2% | 47.3% |
| Kris Letang | 46.3% | 50.1% | 46.7% |
| Kevin Hayes | 53.1% | 47.2% | 48.1% |
50.3% together, 48.2% for him apart and 47.3% for Malkin apart. Malkin was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Malkin 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
134 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.