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Steven Stamkos
Nashville Predators Center #91
Forty-two goals at thirty-six, and a minus-seventeen that says nothing about him.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 82 | 42 | 24 | 66 | -17 | 58 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 206 | 20.4 | 17:50 |
| Career | 1246 | 624 | 632 | 1256 | -7 | 737 | 242 | 5 | 101 | 3712 | 16.8 | 18:60 |
Last Season
Forty-two goals and 24 assists in all 82 games — 66 points, minus-17, at 17:50 a night with 14 power-play goals. His 1,246th career game and his 624th goal.
The Finesse Game
The one-timer remains the most reliable weapon of the last twenty years. Three hundred and seven unblocked attempts, 41 goals, median 26 feet with 38 per cent from inside twenty — he has moved closer to the net as the legs have gone, and the conversion rate has held.
Fourteen power-play goals at 36 years old, from a left circle he has owned since he was 20.
Twenty-four assists is the lowest full-season total of his career and reflects a player who is now a finisher and nothing else.
The Physical Game
Six foot one, 193, and the skating has genuinely declined. Fifty-eight penalty minutes is more than he usually takes and reads as frustration on a losing team.
He cannot forecheck at pace any more and is not asked to.
The Intangibles
Fifty point two per cent of the expected goals, 55th percentile — dead average, and better than most of this roster.
The minus-17 is a club that conceded the sixth-most expected goals in the league, not a man who scored forty-two.
Eight points in his last ten, six of them goals. He is 36, 1,256 points, 624 goals, and a Stanley Cup captain who came to Nashville for a contending window that has not opened. The scoring is intact. Almost nothing around it is.