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Scott Sabourin
Tampa Bay Lightning Right Wing #46
Undrafted, 73 games across 6 seasons, and 89 penalty minutes in 26.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | OTT | 35 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -6 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6.9 | 7:01 |
| 2020-21 | TOR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4:29 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 7:36 |
| 2023-24 | SJS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 9:17 |
| 2024-25 | SJS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10:27 |
| 2025-26 | TBL | 26 | 1 | 4 | 5 | +1 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9.1 | 7:57 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 73 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -9 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 6.4 | 7:31 |
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
1 goal and 4 assists in 26 games — 5 points, plus-1, at 7:57 a night with 89 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
26 unblocked attempts across 26 games, 1 goal. 13 points in 73 career games.
There is nothing here and the page will not invent any.
The Physical Game
6-3, 205, and the entire role is fighting. 89 penalty minutes in under 8 minutes a night is one of the highest rates in the league by some distance.
Undrafted, 34 years old, and 73 NHL games spread across 6 seasons — the record of a man who is called up when a club decides it needs somebody to answer for something.
The Intangibles
47.9 per cent of the expected goals, 35th percentile, in 206 minutes. That is a very small sample and the only fair thing to say about it is that it is not damning.
4 points in his last 10, none of them goals.
He is 34, and on a club that finished 3rd in the league in possession and has Viel for the same job, the honest question is whether these 200 minutes need to exist at all. Tampa evidently thinks they do.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 206 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 36th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.3%
- 21st 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: 8 for, 7 against. Expected: 8.1 and 8.8.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 25 points above where the report does. 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 — 64 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 · 26 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 35th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.04 a game
- Distance
- 1.33 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.7 mph
- 42nd 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 83.6
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 11 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
4
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 4 assists, 9 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 206 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, 2025-26
- The club
- TBL took 53.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 6.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 206 minutes at five-on-five — 0th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charle-Edouard D'Astous | 51.4% | 46.6% | 55.7% |
| Curtis Douglas | 60.0% | 42.6% | 53.8% |
| Declan Carlile | 37.5% | 51.5% | 50.9% |
51.4% together, 46.6% for him apart and 55.7% for D'Astous apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with D'Astous and did not follow him.
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
26 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 36 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.