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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 26-25 against an expected 25.90-27.22, 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 25th, 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.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“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.”
“He is moved off the crease”
“he loses battles in the corner”
“he does not defend by force in any circumstance”
“with a well-documented history of the kind that follows a player from room to room.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 591 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.8%
- 43rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.4%
- 68th 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, 25 against. Expected: 25.9 and 27.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 30 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 637 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 35 games
- Top speed
- 21.8 mph
- 59th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.74 a game
- Distance
- 3.35 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.7 mph
- 50th 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 89.7
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.
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 48.8% — 1.1 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 | 46.6% | 52.0% | 50.4% |
| Bo Horvat | 47.1% | 49.6% | 52.5% |
| Anders Lee | 49.6% | 48.3% | 53.6% |
46.6% together, 52.0% for him apart and 50.4% for Romanov apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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.