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Tony DeAngelo
New York Islanders Defense
23:21 a night in 35 games — the heaviest ice time on the club — after signing in December.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | ARI | 39 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -13 | 37 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 8.3 | 17:06 |
| 2017-18 | NYR | 32 | 0 | 8 | 8 | -18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 0.0 | 16:34 |
| 2018-19 | NYR | 61 | 4 | 26 | 30 | +6 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 3.6 | 19:20 |
| 2019-20 | NYR | 68 | 15 | 38 | 53 | +12 | 47 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 149 | 10.1 | 19:17 |
| 2020-21 | NYR | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0.0 | 18:29 |
| 2021-22 | CAR | 64 | 10 | 41 | 51 | +30 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 151 | 6.6 | 19:49 |
| 2022-23 | PHI | 70 | 11 | 31 | 42 | -27 | 73 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 174 | 6.3 | 22:04 |
| 2023-24 | CAR | 31 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -7 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 6.8 | 14:20 |
| 2024-25 | NYI | 35 | 4 | 15 | 19 | -11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 76 | 5.3 | 23:21 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 406 | 52 | 177 | 229 | -34 | 339 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 846 | 6.2 | 19:24 |
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
35 games after signing in December, 4 goals and 15 assists for 19 points at 23:21 a night — the heaviest workload on the roster. 76 shots at 5.26 per cent. 10 penalty minutes. Minus-11.
A 49.1 per cent chance share with on-ice goals of 26-29 against an expected 26.19-27.16, which is a defenceman producing almost exactly what the chances predicted at both ends. Nineteen points in 35 games is a 45-point rate.
The Finesse Game
69 per cent of his shots came from beyond 40 feet at a median of 51, and the point shot is genuinely dangerous — heavy, quick to release, and accurate enough to be tipped.
The distribution is the real skill. He runs a power play from the blue line as well as most defencemen in the league, holds the puck until a killer commits, and delivers into the seam rather than around it. 15 assists in 35 games is the rate that keeps getting him signed.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 190 and he does not defend by force in any circumstance. He is moved off the crease, he loses battles in the corner, and the gap he plays is conservative because the alternative does not work for him.
10 penalty minutes in 35 games is a low number, and on a club whose penalty kill finished 31st, being out of the box is worth something.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick and five organisations in nine seasons, with a well-documented history of the kind that follows a player from room to room.
He is 30, he was unsigned in October, and he walked into the largest workload on an NHL roster by Christmas. Nobody employs a defenceman for 23 minutes a night unless the alternatives are worse, and on this blue line they were.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 591 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.1%
- 42nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.1%
- 65th 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: 26 for, 29 against. Expected: 26.2 and 27.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 28 points above where the report does. 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. 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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 · 591 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Pelech19%
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
- NYI took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.1% — 0.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 591 minutes at five-on-five — 22nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Romanov | 47.8% | 51.2% | 50.6% |
| Bo Horvat | 48.3% | 49.5% | 50.8% |
| Anders Lee | 49.7% | 48.8% | 51.8% |
47.8% together, 51.2% for him apart and 50.6% for Romanov apart. He was better away from Romanov, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Romanov.
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
97 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.