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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Philippe Myers

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Philippe Myers

Toronto Maple Leafs Defense #51

6-5, 39 games, no goals, and the 4th percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2018-19PHI21112-52000254.015:22
2019-20PHI5041216+1730000785.117:06
2020-21PHI4411011-1022000771.318:52
2021-22NSH27134+512000283.614:53
2022-23TBL1112304000214.811:33
2023-24TBL5000-2200060.011:42
2024-25TOR36235015000464.316:14
2025-26TOR39022-1022000420.014:33
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—233103343-51090003233.116:05

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

No goals and 2 assists in 39 games — 2 points, minus-10, at 14:33 a night with 22 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

68 unblocked attempts from a median of 57 feet, 87 per cent of them from beyond 40 and 1 per cent from inside 20 — as far out as any defenceman in this edition shoots — and not one went in.

43 points in 233 career games. 2 assists in 39 games is close to the bottom of this book.

The Physical Game

6-5 and 221 pounds, and the size is the whole case. 22 penalty minutes.

He clears his crease, blocks shots, and defends the front of the net. The skating is heavy and the puck decisions under pressure are the reason he has been a seventh defenceman across 4 organisations.

The Intangibles

42.1 per cent of the expected goals, 5th percentile, and 42.6 per cent of the shot attempts, third, across 531 minutes.

Those are the worst figures of any Toronto skater, on a club where the best was 48.9 per cent.

No points in his last 10. He is 29, undrafted, and a depth defenceman on a roster that gave him 39 games because it had run out of alternatives.

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.

  • perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in

    86.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 98th percentile among defencemen

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 531 minutes

Expected goals
42.1%
6th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
42.6%
4th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 19 for, 29 against. Expected: 17.6 and 24.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
15th
Numbers
6th

The two rank him within 9 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 — 65 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 · 39 games

Top speed
22.2 mph
73rd pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.74 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.03 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
99.3 mph
95th pct

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

0

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 0 assists, 19 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 531 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
TOR took 46.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.1% — 4.2 below the club he did it on.
The role
531 minutes at five-on-five — 20th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Morgan Rielly41.5%42.5%49.3%
Simon Benoit36.7%44.4%43.0%
John Tavares41.1%42.6%49.6%

41.5% together, 42.5% for him apart and 49.3% for Rielly apart. Rielly 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

68 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 1% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 87% from beyond forty.