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Robert Thomas
St. Louis Blues Center
60 assists in 70 games and the 94th percentile of chances, on ice for 35 goals against an expectation of 48.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 466 | 107 | 289 | 396 | +46 | 148 | 23 | 5 | 19 | 725 | 14.8 | 17:36 |
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
21 goals and 60 assists in 70 games — 81 points at 19:57 a night, plus-20, with 3 power-play goals, a shorthanded goal and 5 game-winners.
55.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 94th percentile — the best figure on the club. His ice went 56-36 against an expectation of 50.15-39.96. Six goals of scoring arrived above expectation and four fewer went in than the chances said should, which is a centre who won the play comfortably in both directions.
The Finesse Game
60 assists in 70 games is the number, and it comes from the slowest hands on the roster. He holds the puck a beat longer than a defenceman expects, he waits for the second option, and he throws passes into places the play has not reached yet.
145 attempts at a median of 30 feet with 26 per cent from inside 20, converting at 14.5 per cent. The shot is a genuine one and it is the fourth thing about him.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 207 and thickly built through the legs, which is why he can hold the puck on the wall against a defenceman.
20 penalty minutes in 70 games at twenty minutes a night is a low rate. He is not physical by instinct and he is very hard to separate from the puck, which is a different thing.
The Intangibles
Twentieth overall in 2017, a Stanley Cup at 19 in his rookie season, and 466 games and 396 points — all of it here.
He is 26, he was named an alternate captain, and he signed an eight-year extension in 2024. Eighty-one points in seventy games is the best season of his career by twenty.
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 21 goals late or in overtime, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
55.7% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 49.2% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.5, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:37 a game at five-on-five, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
“**60 assists in 70 games is the number**, and it comes from the slowest hands on the roster.”
“6-0 and 207 and thickly built through the legs, which is why he can hold the puck on the wall against a defenceman.”
“He is not physical by instinct and he is very hard to separate from the puck, which is a different thing.”
“He is not physical by instinct and he is very hard to separate from the puck, which is a different thing.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,023 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.7%
- 93rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.3%
- 56th 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: 56 for, 36 against. Expected: 50.1 and 40.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 2 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 · 70 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 27th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.23 a game
- Distance
- 3.24 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.2 mph
- 61st 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 · 1023 minutes at five-on-five
- Jordan Kyrou23%
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
- STL took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.7% — 4.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,023 minutes at five-on-five — 64th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pavel Buchnevich | 57.6% | 50.4% | 42.3% |
| Jake Neighbours | 55.6% | 55.7% | 40.6% |
| Colton Parayko | 54.6% | 56.3% | 48.8% |
57.6% together, 50.4% for him apart and 42.3% for Buchnevich apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
222 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 26% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.