Pius Suter

5-11, 172 pounds, and 56 per cent of his shots from the slot.

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

2020-21	CHI	55	14	13	27	-5	14	1	0	3	112	12.5	16:20
2021-22	DET	82	15	21	36	-11	22	0	1	3	166	9.0	16:55
2022-23	DET	79	14	10	24	-3	6	0	2	1	106	13.2	14:04
2023-24	VAN	67	14	15	29	+17	16	2	0	3	105	13.3	15:30
2024-25	VAN	81	25	21	46	+2	18	2	1	3	138	18.1	17:21
2025-26	STL	64	13	16	29	+13	20	1	1	2	95	13.7	15:54
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	428	95	96	191	+13	96	6	5	15	722	13.2	16:01

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

13 goals and 16 assists in 64 games — 29 points, plus-13, at 15:54 a night with 20 penalty minutes. 18 games missed.

The Finesse Game

A quick, intelligent forward who has scored at a fair clip in 5 NHL cities. 56 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet with a median of 17, and 13 goals came out of 138 tries.

That is 172 pound centre doing his shooting in the crease, which almost nobody his size manages. 191 points in 428 career games.

16 assists is fair for a third-line centre.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 172 pounds — one of the lightest forwards in this edition. 20 penalty minutes.

He is moved off pucks by anybody who chooses to and gets to the interior on timing rather than strength. He kills penalties and wins his share of draws.

The Intangibles

50.2 per cent of the expected goals, 56th percentile, and 48.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 42nd, across 829 minutes, with the goals level at 32-24.

Level chance share in a middle-6 role is exactly what he has produced everywhere, which is why he keeps getting signed and keeps getting let go.

6 points in his last 10. He is 30, undrafted out of Switzerland, and a genuinely useful third-line centre on a club whose fourth line was the worst part of 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

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
68.1% of his attempts in the slot, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 829 minutes

Expected goals: 50.2%; 56th pct
Shot attempts: 48.6%; 42nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 24 against. Expected: 33.6 and 33.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

38th

Numbers

56th

Blind

33rd

The two rank him within 18 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.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 23 points from the numbers; this one lands 18. 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 — 70 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 · 64 games

Top speed: 21.1 mph; 11th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.14 a game
Distance: 2.47 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.8 mph; 61st 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 — 2 goals, 4 assists, 12 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 829 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: STL took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.2% — level with the club he did it on.
The role: 829 minutes at five-on-five — 40th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Cam Fowler	48.1%	51.7%	49.4%
Philip Broberg	49.4%	50.6%	52.1%
Colton Parayko	52.1%	49.2%	51.2%

48.1% together, 51.7% for him apart and 49.4% for Fowler apart. He was better away from Fowler, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Fowler.

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

138 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 56% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.