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Trent Frederic
Edmonton Oilers Center
15 points in 58 games, a minus-16, and a large contract signed on the basis of a role rather than a season.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 338 | 55 | 54 | 109 | +18 | 307 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 485 | 11.3 | 12:24 |
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
8 goals and 7 assists in 58 games for 15 points, minus-16, on 13:43 a night between Boston and Edmonton.
48.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 43rd percentile, which on this club is the second-worst among the forwards. 78 shots and 8 goals; he had 18 goals two seasons before and has not been near that since.
The Finesse Game
Limited. 15 points in 58 games is closer to his career rate than the 18-goal season was, and 7 assists says there is no playmaking to speak of.
47 per cent of his shots come from inside 20 feet, so the locations are correct and the hands are ordinary. He is a net-front and forechecking forward and the offence is incidental.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 221, and this is the entire case. He hits hard, fights when the game asks, and is genuinely difficult to play against below the goal line.
44 penalty minutes in 58 games. He arrived at the deadline injured and never looked right, which is part of why the season reads as it does.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick, seven seasons in Boston as a heavy bottom-six forward, a deadline trade, and a long contract from a club that had just lost a second consecutive final to a heavier team.
That is the context and it is also the risk. Edmonton is paying for the idea of him — size, willingness, a hard series — and the last two seasons of production say 20 points.
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.
“7 assists says there is no playmaking to speak of.”
“He is a net-front and forechecking forward and the offence is incidental.”
“He is a net-front and forechecking forward and the offence is incidental.”
“He hits hard, fights when the game asks, and is genuinely difficult to play against below the goal line.”
“is genuinely difficult to play against below the goal line”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 721 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.9%
- 44th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.8%
- 32nd 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: 19 for, 30 against. Expected: 25.9 and 27.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 points of one another. 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.
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 — 72 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 · 58 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 40th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.14 a game
- Distance
- 2.28 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.8 mph
- 71st 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 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with BOS · 714 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, 2024-25
- The club
- EDM took 54.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.9% — 5.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 721 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlie Coyle | 47.2% | 49.8% | 49.7% |
| Justin Brazeau | 47.2% | 49.8% | 49.6% |
| Brandon Carlo | 45.9% | 50.2% | 46.5% |
47.2% together, 49.8% for him apart and 49.7% for Coyle apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
111 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.