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Quinton Byfield
Los Angeles Kings Right Wing
6-5 and 230 pounds at 23, 54 points, and a 56.5 per cent chance share.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | LAK | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 15:01 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 40 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 12.8 | 12:09 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 53 | 3 | 19 | 22 | +13 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 4.0 | 14:04 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 80 | 20 | 35 | 55 | +19 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 161 | 12.4 | 16:29 |
| 2024-25 | LAK | 81 | 23 | 31 | 54 | +16 | 46 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 157 | 14.6 | 18:37 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 260 | 51 | 91 | 142 | +42 | 140 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 440 | 11.6 | 15:57 |
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
23 goals and 31 assists in 81 games for 54 points, plus-16, on 18:37 a night.
56.8 per cent at five-on-five, the 95th percentile, with on-ice goals of 54-36 against an expected 47-35. 45 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 24, and 14.7 per cent conversion is a supportable rate.
The Finesse Game
The skating for 6-5 and 230 pounds is genuinely remarkable — he is among the faster forwards in the league in a straight line and he does not lose the puck doing it. That combination is the whole reason he was a 2nd overall pick.
The hands are good rather than exceptional and the decision-making at speed is still developing. 31 assists is a fair total. What has not yet arrived is the ability to dominate a shift; he creates chances by carrying the puck into space rather than by making anything happen once he is there.
The Physical Game
6-5 and 230, and he has learned to use it. He protects the puck below the goal line, wins the wall, and goes to the net front — none of which he did reliably two seasons ago.
46 penalty minutes over 81 games. Three consecutive seasons above 78 games at this size is a good sign.
The Intangibles
The 2nd overall pick in 2020, a slow start that produced years of criticism, and two seasons now of steady, unspectacular improvement.
At 23 the projection is a genuine first-line winger or a second-line centre, and the club has not yet decided which. The 95th-percentile chance share says the underlying game is already there; the 54 points say the finishing is not.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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.
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“he creates chances by carrying the puck into space rather than by making anything happen once he is there”
“He protects the puck below the goal line, wins the wall, and goes to the net front”
“goes to the net front”
“31 assists is a fair total.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,151 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.8%
- 96th pct
- Shot attempts
- 55.1%
- 92nd 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: 54 for, 36 against. Expected: 46.6 and 35.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 — 81 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
- 23.4 mph
- 96th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 3.64 a game
- Distance
- 3.24 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.0 mph
- 91st 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 · 1151 minutes at five-on-five
- Kevin Fiala41%
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
- LAK took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.8% — 2.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,151 minutes at five-on-five — 81st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Laferriere | 56.1% | 57.3% | 56.8% |
| Kevin Fiala | 57.9% | 55.9% | 57.2% |
| Warren Foegele | 58.2% | 55.8% | 57.0% |
56.1% together, 57.3% for him apart and 56.8% for Laferriere apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
253 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.