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Scott Laughton

Acquired at the deadline from Philadelphia, and a minus-18 across two clubs.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	681	108	161	269	-43	397	6	10	9	1123	9.6	14:27

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

13 goals and 18 assists in 80 games across Philadelphia and Toronto — 31 points at 14:36 a night, minus-18, with a shorthanded goal and 32 penalty minutes.

51.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 68th percentile. His ice went 40-43 against an expectation of 34.67-32.48, which says the chances were good and the results were not — most of the minus was collected in Philadelphia.

The Finesse Game

125 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 42 per cent from inside 20, converting at 10.4 per cent. He goes to the net and the finishing is ordinary.

18 assists in 80 games. He is not a creator and he never has been; the value is that he plays a complete, positionally exact game and takes the hardest defensive draws available.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 190 and he plays a hard game for the size. He forechecks first, he blocks shots, and he finishes checks.

32 penalty minutes in 80 games is a moderate rate. He kills penalties, he can be trusted with a lead, and he wins the draw that begins the shift.

The Intangibles

Twentieth overall in 2012 and 681 games and 269 points, twelve seasons of it in Philadelphia, where he was an alternate captain.

Toronto acquired him at the deadline in March for a first-round pick and a prospect, which is a considerable price for a third-line centre and says exactly what the club thought it was missing. He is 31.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 941 minutes

Expected goals: 51.6%; 68th pct
Shot attempts: 44.8%; 11th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 43 against. Expected: 34.7 and 32.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

66th

Numbers

68th

The 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 — 75 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with PHI · 750 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, 2024-25

The club: TOR took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.6% — 1.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: 941 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Garnet Hathaway	56.9%	49.4%	51.7%
Travis Sanheim	53.8%	50.7%	53.8%
Rasmus Ristolainen	56.2%	49.9%	49.8%

56.9% together, 49.4% for him apart and 51.7% for Hathaway 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

183 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 26% from beyond forty.