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Trent Frederic
Edmonton Oilers Center #10
A heavy, useful bottom-6 forward coming off a year in which almost nothing went in.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | BOS | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0.0 | 9:24 |
| 2019-20 | BOS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 6:26 |
| 2020-21 | BOS | 42 | 4 | 1 | 5 | -8 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 44 | 9.1 | 11:15 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 60 | 8 | 10 | 18 | +10 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100 | 8.0 | 11:39 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 79 | 17 | 14 | 31 | +28 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 120 | 14.2 | 11:55 |
| 2023-24 | BOS | 82 | 18 | 22 | 40 | +9 | 69 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 123 | 14.6 | 13:45 |
| 2024-25 | BOS/EDM | 58 | 8 | 7 | 15 | -16 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 10.3 | 13:43 |
| 2025-26 | EDM | 74 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -15 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 77 | 5.2 | 11:02 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 412 | 59 | 57 | 116 | +3 | 365 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 562 | 10.5 | 12:09 |
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
4 goals and 7 points in 74 games, minus-15, 58 penalty minutes, 11 minutes a night. He has scored 18 in a season before and this was nowhere near that — a genuinely poor offensive year by any measure, including his own.
The Physical Game
The reason he is in the lineup. 6-3 and 221, and he plays it: he forechecks hard, finishes checks, and is willing to answer for teammates, which still matters more in a playoff series than the numbers suggest. He is strong on the wall and awkward to defend below the goal line because he simply will not be moved.
He fights when it is warranted and, to his credit, mostly not when it is not.
The Finesse Game
Limited, and he knows it. The hands work in tight and around the net — most of his career goals have come from within a few feet — but he cannot beat anyone one-on-one and the shot from distance is not a threat. The skating is heavy; he gets there, but he arrives late against fast teams.
His job is to play 11 honest minutes, be hard to play against, and put the puck back to people who can do something with it.
The Intangibles
The gap between what Boston paid for him and what he has produced in Edmonton is the uncomfortable fact of his tenure here, and last season did nothing to close it. Fourth-line forwards who cannot score are replaceable, and he is at the age where the physical style stops being an asset and starts being a liability.
The case for him is that this is a role that gets valued differently in April than it does in November.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 806 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 36th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47%
- 27th 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: 18 for, 32 against. Expected: 28.9 and 31.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 19 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 — 73 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 · 74 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 70th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.11 a game
- Distance
- 1.81 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.8 mph
- 68th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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
2
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 2 assists, 15 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 806 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Henriqueoff the roster31%
- Curtis Lazaroff the roster15%
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
- EDM took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 3.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 806 minutes at five-on-five — 39th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darnell Nurse | 43.5% | 50.4% | 50.4% |
| Ty Emberson | 45.7% | 49.0% | 48.5% |
| Adam Henrique | 45.3% | 48.8% | 48.5% |
43.5% together, 50.4% for him apart and 50.4% for Nurse 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
104 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.