Scott Laughton

A checking centre with a first-round pedigree who long ago made peace with what he is.

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

2012-13	PHI	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0.0	11:31
2014-15	PHI	31	2	4	6	-1	17	0	0	0	51	3.9	12:43
2015-16	PHI	71	7	14	21	-2	34	0	0	0	85	8.2	10:26
2016-17	PHI	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	10:15
2017-18	PHI	81	10	10	20	-10	42	0	1	0	108	9.3	11:07
2018-19	PHI	82	12	20	32	-11	53	0	0	1	130	9.2	14:51
2019-20	PHI	49	13	14	27	+13	26	0	0	2	74	17.6	14:36
2020-21	PHI	53	9	11	20	+13	39	0	1	1	89	10.1	15:25
2021-22	PHI	67	11	19	30	-9	35	0	2	1	110	10.0	16:25
2022-23	PHI	78	18	25	43	-9	50	5	3	0	170	10.6	18:17
2023-24	PHI	82	13	26	39	-9	69	1	2	2	167	7.8	15:39
2024-25	PHI/TOR	80	13	18	31	-18	32	0	1	2	125	10.4	14:36
2025-26	TOR/LAK	64	13	7	20	-5	31	1	2	2	95	13.7	14:21
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	745	121	168	289	-48	428	7	12	11	1218	9.9	14:27

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 20 points in 64 games across 2 clubs, 14 minutes a night. The 7 assists is a strikingly low number and says something about the line he spent the year on.

The Finesse Game

Modest. He has scored 15 goals in a season and he has scored 5; the difference is usually who he plays with rather than anything he does. The shot is a decent one from the slot, the hands are ordinary, and he does not create for teammates.

The useful part is his speed and his willingness to use it in his own end. He forechecks hard, kills penalties, takes defensive draws, and can be moved to the wing without complaint.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 190, and he plays a full-contact game. He finishes checks, he is durable, and he will fight if the situation calls for it. Not a heavyweight, and not shy.

The Intangibles

12 years and 745 games of exactly this. He was the twentieth pick and never became a scorer, and the honest version of his career is that he turned into a useful third-line centre instead of a bust, which is not the same thing as a disappointment.

32, on a team with a lot of veterans in similar roles. His minutes are not guaranteed.

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.

hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
19% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 1st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 752 minutes

Expected goals: 46.9%; 28th pct
Shot attempts: 44.1%; 8th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 22 for, 28 against. Expected: 25.2 and 28.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

28th

The report ranks him 45 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

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 — 76 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: 22.3 mph; 55th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.20 a game
Distance: 2.34 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.1 mph; 78th 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 — 3 goals, 1 assists, 25 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with TOR · 481 minutes at five-on-five

Steven Lorentz73%
Calle Jarnkrokoff the roster36%
Bobby McMannnow SEA15%

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: LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.9% — 5.0 below the club he did it on.
The role: 752 minutes at five-on-five — 34th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Steven Lorentz	44.0%	49.5%	46.4%
Jared Wright	59.2%	42.2%	—
Jake McCabe	43.3%	47.9%	47.0%

44.0% together, 49.5% for him apart and 46.4% for Lorentz apart. He was better away from Lorentz, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Lorentz.

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

144 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.