Robert Thomas

64 points in 64 games, and 16 in his last 10.

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

2018-19	STL	70	9	24	33	-2	14	3	0	0	80	11.3	13:04
2019-20	STL	66	10	32	42	+9	18	1	0	2	87	11.5	14:34
2020-21	STL	33	3	9	12	+1	10	0	0	1	22	13.6	13:36
2021-22	STL	72	20	57	77	+17	16	3	2	6	115	17.4	18:46
2022-23	STL	73	18	47	65	-8	22	5	1	2	106	17.0	19:21
2023-24	STL	82	26	60	86	+9	48	8	1	3	170	15.3	20:58
2024-25	STL	70	21	60	81	+20	20	3	1	5	145	14.5	19:57
2025-26	STL	64	25	39	64	+22	24	3	2	4	102	24.5	19:01
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	530	132	328	460	+68	172	26	7	23	827	16.0	17:47

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

25 goals and 39 assists in 64 games — 64 points, plus-22, at 19:01 a night with 3 power-play goals. 18 games missed. 460 points in 530 career games.

The Finesse Game

The best playmaker on the club and among the better ones in the league. He holds the puck a beat longer than is comfortable to watch and the pass arrives exactly when the lane opens.

The shooting is remarkably efficient: 137 unblocked attempts produced 23 goals, from a median of 22 feet with 45 per cent from inside 20 and only 9 per cent from beyond 40. That is a 17 per cent conversion and it is the second season running.

328 career assists against 132 goals says where the game lives.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 207, and thicker than he looks. 24 penalty minutes.

He protects the puck through contact below the goal line, which is where most of the assists start, and he is not a checker and never has been.

The Intangibles

55.2 per cent of the expected goals, 88th percentile — second on the club to Kyrou — and 51.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 65th, across 922 minutes, with the chances 43.6 to 35.4 in his favour.

The goals went 54-35 his way regardless — 11 better than the chances — which is not the goaltending: St. Louis conceded 14 goals more than the chances it faced. It is the best on-ice margin on the club.

16 points in his last 10, 9 of them goals. He is 27, a 20th overall pick, the captain, and a point-a-game centre nobody outside Missouri discusses.

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.

drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
55.2% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 48.6% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.6, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 922 minutes

Expected goals: 55.2%; 89th pct
Shot attempts: 51.8%; 73rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 54 for, 35 against. Expected: 43.6 and 35.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

92nd

Numbers

89th

The two rank him within 3 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 — 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, 2025-26 · 64 games

Top speed: 23.3 mph; 92nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.39 a game
Distance: 3.08 miles a game
Hardest shot: 81.8 mph; 30th 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 — 9 goals, 7 assists, 20 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 922 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 55.2% — 5.0 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 922 minutes at five-on-five — 51st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jimmy Snuggerud	53.6%	56.9%	47.0%
Philip Broberg	54.5%	55.8%	50.4%
Colton Parayko	57.1%	53.8%	49.0%

53.6% together, 56.9% for him apart and 47.0% for Snuggerud apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Snuggerud behind.

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

137 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.