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Sean Durzi
New York Rangers Defense #5
85th percentile in Utah, and 22 assists from the second pair.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | LAK | 64 | 3 | 24 | 27 | -9 | 55 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 2.5 | 19:36 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 72 | 9 | 29 | 38 | -12 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 110 | 8.2 | 19:47 |
| 2023-24 | ARI | 76 | 9 | 32 | 41 | -1 | 63 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 142 | 6.3 | 22:43 |
| 2024-25 | UTA | 30 | 4 | 7 | 11 | +4 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 10.3 | 20:39 |
| 2025-26 | UTA | 60 | 5 | 22 | 27 | -12 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 84 | 5.9 | 19:16 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 302 | 30 | 114 | 144 | -30 | 237 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 494 | 6.1 | 20:28 |
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
5 goals and 22 assists in 60 games — 27 points, minus-12, at 19:16 a night with 50 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Utah.
The Finesse Game
A puck-mover by trade. 22 assists in 60 games is a good rate and comes from a quick, accurate first pass and a willingness to carry when the outlet is not there.
The shot is a point shot: 137 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet, 5 goals. 144 points in 302 career games is a genuine offensive defenceman’s rate.
The Physical Game
6-1, 196, and he defends with position rather than force. 50 penalty minutes in 60 games is higher than his game suggests.
He is not a net-front presence and can be worked around by heavier forwards.
The Intangibles
53.5 per cent of the expected goals, 80th percentile, and 54.0 per cent of the shot attempts, 86th, with the chances 49.1 to 42.7 in his favour across 1,040 minutes.
That is a genuinely strong season and, on a Rangers blue line where 2 of 4 regulars sit in the bottom sixth, exactly the addition the club needed.
He is 27, a 52nd overall pick, and has been traded twice by teams who decided the defending was not worth the offence. The numbers last season disagree with both of them.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,040 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.5%
- 80th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54%
- 86th 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: 43 for, 51 against. Expected: 49.1 and 42.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 36 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 — 71 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 · 60 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 86th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.90 a game
- Distance
- 2.82 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.3 mph
- 69th 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 88.9
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
5
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 5 assists, 17 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with UTA · 1040 minutes at five-on-five
- Nate Schmidt11%
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
- UTA took 53.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.5% — 0.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,040 minutes at five-on-five — 65th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikhail Sergachev | 54.2% | 52.9% | 49.4% |
| Clayton Keller | 57.3% | 51.2% | 56.3% |
| Nick Schmaltz | 58.0% | 51.2% | 54.4% |
54.2% together, 52.9% for him apart and 49.4% for Sergachev apart. Sergachev was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Sergachev than for 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
137 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 72% from beyond forty.