Sean Couturier

952 games, a Selke, and a body that took 2 years back.

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

2011-12	PHI	77	13	14	27	+18	14	0	2	4	116	11.2	14:08
2012-13	PHI	46	4	11	15	-8	10	0	0	0	75	5.3	15:53
2013-14	PHI	82	13	26	39	+1	45	0	1	2	165	7.9	19:05
2014-15	PHI	82	15	22	37	+4	28	1	1	0	148	10.1	18:23
2015-16	PHI	63	11	28	39	+8	30	2	0	1	119	9.2	18:36
2016-17	PHI	66	14	20	34	+12	33	0	0	2	120	11.7	18:27
2017-18	PHI	82	31	45	76	+34	31	7	0	6	227	13.7	21:36
2018-19	PHI	80	33	43	76	+2	34	8	1	5	223	14.8	22:08
2019-20	PHI	69	22	37	59	+21	30	4	0	4	185	11.9	19:50
2020-21	PHI	45	18	23	41	-4	8	3	0	4	120	15.0	19:20
2021-22	PHI	29	6	11	17	-6	14	2	0	2	79	7.6	20:24
2023-24	PHI	74	11	27	38	-10	29	3	0	3	192	5.7	17:49
2024-25	PHI	79	15	30	45	+1	41	1	0	2	155	9.7	17:18
2025-26	PHI	78	12	24	36	-5	30	0	0	2	119	10.1	16:39
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	952	218	361	579	+68	377	31	5	37	2043	10.7	18:32

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

12 goals and 24 assists in 78 games — 36 points, minus-5, at 16:39 a night with 30 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The reads are still the best on the club. He is where the play is going, which at 33 and after 2 back surgeries is the only way he still takes hard minutes.

177 unblocked attempts, 10 goals, median 25 feet with 41 per cent inside 20. The shot has faded; 218 goals in 952 games says what it was.

24 assists is honest second-line work.

The Physical Game

6-4, 210, and he protects pucks below the goal line as well as anyone here. 30 penalty minutes.

The skating is gone. 2 back surgeries cost him the better part of 2 seasons and there is no version of him that gets that back.

The Intangibles

52.4 per cent of the expected goals, 73rd percentile, with the chances 40.4 to 36.7 in his favour across 1,024 minutes.

That is a genuinely good number in the hardest available minutes on a club that finished 3rd in expected goals against.

5 points in his last 10. He is 33, a Selke winner, the captain, and 579 points into a career that would look very different without the injuries. He is still doing the difficult half properly.

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.

durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,024 minutes

Expected goals: 52.4%; 74th pct
Shot attempts: 49.6%; 53rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 37 for, 42 against. Expected: 40.4 and 36.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

74th

The two rank him within 1 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 · 78 games

Top speed: 21.7 mph; 27th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.74 a game
Distance: 2.63 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.9 mph; 51st 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, 2 assists, 13 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1024 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: PHI took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.4% — 1.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 1,024 minutes at five-on-five — 62nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Travis Sanheim	52.1%	52.7%	50.8%
Owen Tippett	53.2%	51.9%	54.0%
Cam York	47.9%	54.7%	50.4%

52.1% together, 52.7% for him apart and 50.8% for Sanheim apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

177 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.