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Tony DeAngelo

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Tony DeAngelo

New York Islanders Defense #77

30 assists from the blue line, and a penalty kill that finished last.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2016-17ARI395914-1337201608.317:06
2017-18NYR32088-1811000680.016:34
2018-19NYR6142630+6770001113.619:20
2019-20NYR68153853+124730314910.119:17
2020-21NYR6011-64000130.018:29
2021-22CAR64104151+30562021516.619:49
2022-23PHI70113142-27734011746.322:04
2023-24CAR313811-724200446.814:20
2024-25NYI3541519-1110001765.323:21
2025-26NYI7653035-5431011483.419:08
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—48257207264-3938214099945.719:21

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 30 assists in 76 games — 35 points, minus-5, at 19:08 a night with 43 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The passing is the case for him and it is a real one. 30 assists from a defenceman is a top-20 figure at the position, and he moves the puck out of danger quickly and accurately.

The shot is heavy from the point — 204 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet — and only 5 went in, which is a poor return for that volume.

The Physical Game

6 foot even and 190, and it is the weakness. 43 penalty minutes, most of them the wrong kind. He cannot clear his crease and gets beaten in front by heavier forwards.

The Intangibles

48.3 per cent of the expected goals, 40th percentile, against 52.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 78th — a wide split, and it says the puck was in the right end while he was out there and the chances he conceded were the dangerous kind.

New York finished dead last in the league on the penalty kill and 28th in even-strength expected goals against. He is not solely responsible and he is part of it.

He is 30, on his sixth organisation, with a long record of clubs deciding the offence is not worth the rest. 4 points in his last 10, none of them goals.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,294 minutes

Expected goals
48.3%
40th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.4%
78th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 49 for, 52 against. Expected: 54.8 and 58.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
27th
Numbers
40th

The two rank him within 13 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 — 68 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 · 76 games

Top speed
22.5 mph
81st pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.78 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.86 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
88.3 mph
38th pct

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

4

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 4 assists, 21 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1294 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
NYI took 48.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.3% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
The role
Second pair, 1,294 minutes at five-on-five — 88th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Adam Pelech49.3%47.1%53.9%
Mathew Barzal49.6%47.5%52.5%
Anders Lee50.2%47.5%51.8%

49.3% together, 47.1% for him apart and 53.9% for Pelech apart. Pelech was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

204 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 32 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.