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Scott Mayfield
New York Islanders Defense
Plus-18 — the best figure on the club by thirteen — at the 24th percentile in chance share.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | NYI | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 17:22 |
| 2015-16 | NYI | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25.0 | 17:07 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 25 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 5.1 | 14:08 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 47 | 2 | 10 | 12 | -6 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 3.5 | 17:51 |
| 2018-19 | NYI | 79 | 4 | 15 | 19 | +18 | 68 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 104 | 3.9 | 18:44 |
| 2019-20 | NYI | 67 | 5 | 8 | 13 | +8 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 98 | 5.1 | 19:57 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 56 | 2 | 13 | 15 | +2 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 2.5 | 19:29 |
| 2021-22 | NYI | 61 | 3 | 15 | 18 | -5 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 80 | 3.8 | 19:46 |
| 2022-23 | NYI | 82 | 6 | 18 | 24 | +8 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 119 | 5.0 | 21:02 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 41 | 0 | 5 | 5 | -7 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0.0 | 18:46 |
| 2024-25 | NYI | 66 | 3 | 6 | 9 | +18 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 51 | 5.9 | 17:00 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 535 | 28 | 97 | 125 | +28 | 457 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 675 | 4.2 | 18:54 |
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
66 games, 3 goals and 6 assists for 9 points at 17:00 a night, on 51 shots at 5.88 per cent. 27 penalty minutes. Plus-18, the best figure on the roster by thirteen.
His chance share was 47.1 per cent, the 24th percentile in the league, and his on-ice goals were 41-30 against an expected 35-38.40. He scored exactly what the chances said and conceded six fewer than expected, which is goaltending, and the plus-18 is what a third-pair defenceman collects when he is on the ice for very few shorthanded goals and a number of empty-net ones. It is the least informative number in this chapter.
The Finesse Game
67 per cent of his shots came from beyond 40 feet at a median of 50, and 11 per cent from inside 20. 51 attempts in 66 games is close to a defenceman who does not shoot.
The first pass is safe and slow and he will rim the puck rather than hold it. There is no carrying game and there never has been.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 215 and this is the whole of it. He clears his crease by force, finishes every check available, and blocks shots without hesitation.
27 penalty minutes in 66 games is a modest number for a defenceman who plays this heavily, and it reflects a man whose reach means he does not have to grab.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick and twelve seasons in one organisation, all of it in a third-pair role that he has never lost and never outgrown.
He is 33 and signed for three more years. The plus-18 will be quoted and the 24th percentile will not, and the second number is the one that describes what happens when he plays against a real line.
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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
17.6% of his attempts in the slot, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
“He clears his crease by force”
“finishes every check available”
“blocks shots without hesitation”
“There is no carrying game and there never has been.”
“it reflects a man whose reach means he does not have to grab”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 928 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.6%
- 32nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.5%
- 29th 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: 41 for, 30 against. Expected: 34.9 and 38.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 30 points above where the report does. 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. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 59 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 · 66 games
- Top speed
- 21.2 mph
- 29th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.30 a game
- Distance
- 2.29 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.2 mph
- 16th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 · 928 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Pulock19%
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
- NYI took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 2.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 928 minutes at five-on-five — 49th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bo Horvat | 50.5% | 46.2% | 51.8% |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | 53.7% | 44.8% | 52.5% |
| Anders Lee | 53.4% | 45.2% | 52.7% |
50.5% together, 46.2% for him apart and 51.8% for Horvat apart. He was worse away from Horvat, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Horvat did.
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
85 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 67% from beyond forty.