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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.

50.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 68th percentile. His ice went 32-47 against an expectation of 33.90-32.98, 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.

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

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
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“He forechecks first, he blocks shots, and he finishes checks.”
shot-blockera strength· gets in front of it
“He forechecks first, he blocks shots, and he finishes checks.”
faceoffsa strength· takes the draw that starts it
“He kills penalties, he can be trusted with a lead, and he wins the draw that begins the shift.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“He kills penalties, he can be trusted with a lead, and he wins the draw that begins the shift.”
defensively-responsiblea strength· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“the value is that he plays a complete, positionally exact game and takes the hardest defensive draws available.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 941 minutes

Expected goals: 50.7%; 60th pct
Shot attempts: 44.6%; 10th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 47 against. Expected: 33.9 and 33.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

66th

Numbers

60th

The two rank him within 6 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 80 games

Top speed: 21.9 mph; 34th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.14 a game
Distance: 2.43 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.2 mph; 74th 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.

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 50.7% — 0.5 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	54.8%	49.0%	50.2%
Travis Sanheim	52.6%	49.8%	53.6%
Rasmus Ristolainen	54.3%	49.3%	50.6%

54.8% together, 49.0% for him apart and 50.2% 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.