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Shea Theodore
Vegas Golden Knights Defense
Fifty assists in 67 games from the blue line, and the most productive defenceman this franchise has had.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | ANA | 19 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 10.7 | 19:07 |
| 2016-17 | ANA | 34 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -6 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 3.3 | 17:19 |
| 2017-18 | VGK | 61 | 6 | 23 | 29 | +5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 144 | 4.2 | 20:21 |
| 2018-19 | VGK | 79 | 12 | 25 | 37 | -4 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 202 | 5.9 | 20:06 |
| 2019-20 | VGK | 71 | 13 | 33 | 46 | +12 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 219 | 5.9 | 22:14 |
| 2020-21 | VGK | 53 | 8 | 34 | 42 | +28 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161 | 5.0 | 22:33 |
| 2021-22 | VGK | 78 | 14 | 38 | 52 | +6 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 205 | 6.8 | 23:08 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 55 | 8 | 33 | 41 | +16 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 136 | 5.9 | 21:26 |
| 2023-24 | VGK | 47 | 5 | 37 | 42 | +4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 105 | 4.8 | 22:05 |
| 2024-25 | VGK | 67 | 7 | 50 | 57 | +18 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 128 | 5.5 | 22:00 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 564 | 78 | 285 | 363 | +86 | 177 | 16 | 1 | 18 | 1388 | 5.6 | 21:22 |
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
7 goals and 50 assists in 67 games — 57 points at 22:00 a night, plus-18, with 2 power-play goals and 2 game-winners on 128 shots. He missed fifteen games.
53.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 84th percentile. His ice went 42-39 against an expectation of 48.14-41.48 — six goals of scoring missing and two fewer conceded.
The Finesse Game
128 attempts at a median of 50 feet with 71 per cent from beyond 40, and 7 goals.
50 assists in 67 games is the number and it is among the best rates in the league. He walks the line, he holds the puck until a defender commits, and the outlet pass under a forecheck is quick and almost never wrong. He carries the puck out of his own zone rather than passing it out.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 197 and he is not a physical defenceman. He does not clear his crease by force and he does not finish checks.
26 penalty minutes in 67 games at twenty-two minutes a night is a low rate. He defends with his skating and his stick, and the club has paired him with size for his entire career.
The Intangibles
Twenty-sixth overall in 2013 by Anaheim and taken in the expansion draft — 564 games and 363 points, all of it here since.
He is 30, he has had a shoulder rebuilt and missed a full playoff run to it, and he is the most productive defenceman this franchise has had by a wide margin.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,177 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.7%
- 84th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.2%
- 76th 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: 42 for, 39 against. Expected: 48.1 and 41.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 4 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 — 78 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1177 minutes at five-on-five
- Alex Pietrangelooff the roster12%
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
- VGK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.7% — 0.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,177 minutes at five-on-five — 82nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brayden McNabb | 54.1% | 52.5% | 56.2% |
| Jack Eichel | 53.7% | 53.7% | 53.3% |
| Ivan Barbashev | 50.5% | 55.7% | 53.4% |
54.1% together, 52.5% for him apart and 56.2% for McNabb 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
182 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 38 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.