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Travis Sanheim

24 minutes a night on the third-best defensive team in the league.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2017-18	PHI	49	2	8	10	-6	20	0	0	0	72	2.8	15:35
2018-19	PHI	82	9	26	35	-4	22	2	0	2	121	7.4	19:34
2019-20	PHI	69	8	17	25	+4	32	0	0	0	110	7.3	20:09
2020-21	PHI	55	3	12	15	-22	23	0	0	1	100	3.0	21:53
2021-22	PHI	80	7	24	31	+9	34	0	0	1	123	5.7	22:58
2022-23	PHI	81	7	16	23	-5	40	0	1	1	111	6.3	20:24
2023-24	PHI	81	10	34	44	-20	48	0	1	3	146	6.9	23:48
2024-25	PHI	82	8	22	30	-6	40	0	0	0	139	5.8	24:30
2025-26	PHI	81	11	26	37	+12	20	1	1	1	95	11.6	24:13
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	660	65	185	250	-38	279	3	3	9	1017	6.4	21:45

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

11 goals and 26 assists in 81 games — 37 points, plus-12, at 24:13 a night with 1,551 5-on-5 minutes, the most on the club.

The Finesse Game

The skating is excellent for a man 6-4 — he exits the zone with the puck rather than chipping it, and he can carry through the neutral zone when the outlet is not there.

11 goals from the blue line is a good number: 162 unblocked attempts, median 45 feet, and he gets them through. 26 assists is a fair first-pair return.

The Physical Game

6-4, 222, and he defends with reach and body position. 20 penalty minutes across 81 games of the hardest minutes on a top-3 defensive club, which is exceptional discipline.

He clears his crease and closes gaps without lunging.

The Intangibles

51.2 per cent of the expected goals, 65th percentile, against only 48.1 per cent of the shot attempts, 36th — the Philadelphia split in 1 player.

The goals went 68-62 in his favour, second among Philadelphia defencemen, and the plus-12 agrees.

6 points in his last 10. He is 30, a 17th overall pick, and spent most of a decade being criticised in a city that does not forgive defencemen. Philadelphia finished 4th in even-strength expected goals against, and he played more of them than anyone.

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.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

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.

durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:09 a game at five-on-five, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,551 minutes

Expected goals: 51.2%; 65th pct
Shot attempts: 48.1%; 37th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 68 for, 62 against. Expected: 61.5 and 58.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

82nd

Numbers

65th

The two rank him within 17 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 — 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 87th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.28 a game
Distance: 3.52 miles a game
Hardest shot: 94.8 mph; 77th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 3 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1551 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: PHI took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.2% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,551 minutes at five-on-five — 99th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Cam York	49.0%	52.7%	50.5%
Travis Konecny	47.7%	53.0%	49.5%
Christian Dvorak	49.4%	52.1%	47.1%

49.0% together, 52.7% for him apart and 50.5% for York apart. He was better away from York, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost York.

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

162 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 37 feet. 14% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 61% from beyond forty.