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Pius Suter
St. Louis Blues Center
Undrafted, 25 goals on 138 shots in Vancouver, and signed in the summer for the middle six.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 364 | 82 | 80 | 162 | 0 | 76 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 627 | 13.1 | 16:03 |
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
25 goals and 21 assists in 81 games for Vancouver — 46 points at 17:21 a night, plus-2, with a shorthanded goal and 18 penalty minutes.
A 18.1 per cent conversion on 138 shots, which is a career high by a distance and the reason the goal total looks the way it does. He had scored 14 and 14 in the two seasons before it.
The Finesse Game
138 attempts and 25 goals. The release is quick and he gets to the net, and the volume has never been large — he has never taken more than 150 shots in a season.
21 assists in 81 games. He is not a creator; the value is that he plays a complete, positionally exact game and finishes what a line generates around him.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 172 and among the lightest forwards in this chapter. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.
18 penalty minutes in 81 games. He does not foul, he does not retaliate, and he is a first-unit penalty killer for exactly that reason.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, and he did not leave Switzerland until he was 24 — he arrived as a free agent in Chicago and scored 14 goals in his first NHL season.
364 games and 162 points across four organisations. He is 29 and St. Louis signed him in the summer to centre a third line and kill penalties.
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.
- clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
5 of his 25 goals late or in overtime, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**Undrafted**, and he did not leave Switzerland until he was 24 — he arrived as a free agent in Chicago and scored 14 goals in his first NHL season.”
“He does not foul, he does not retaliate, and he is a first-unit penalty killer for exactly that reason.”
“the value is that he plays a complete, positionally exact game and finishes what a line generates around him.”
“He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.”
“He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,006 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.9%
- 52nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.2%
- 45th 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: 45 for, 40 against. Expected: 34.9 and 35.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 21.1 mph
- 10th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.12 a game
- Distance
- 2.78 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.6 mph
- 42nd 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 with VAN · 1006 minutes at five-on-five
- Jake DeBrusk23%
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
- VAN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.9% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,006 minutes at five-on-five — 62nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conor Garland | 50.6% | 49.4% | 54.4% |
| Quinn Hughes | 57.1% | 45.8% | 53.3% |
| Tyler Myers | 54.2% | 48.0% | 48.9% |
50.6% together, 49.4% for him apart and 54.4% for Garland apart. Garland 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
192 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 24 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.