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Trevor Moore

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Trevor Moore

Los Angeles Kings Left Wing #12

An undrafted winger who out-works his way into a top-6 role and has never once looked comfortable there or out of place.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2018-19TOR25268+12000267.79:06
2019-20TOR/LAK426410-460006010.012:54
2020-21LAK56101323-5181208811.414:32
2021-22LAK81173148+20201512028.415:41
2022-23LAK59101929-2142111636.116:59
2023-24LAK82312657+112822524412.717:59
2024-25LAK71182240+171411215311.816:53
2025-26LAK69131932080121598.216:44
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—485107140247+381107121110959.815:51

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

13 goals and 32 points in 69 games on 159 shots, even on the plus-minus, 17 minutes a night. Down from his best years, and he missed a stretch of games.

The Finesse Game

The speed is what got him here from nowhere. He forechecks like his contract depends on it — because for a long time it did — and he is genuinely quick to loose pucks, which turns a lot of ordinary dump-ins into possessions.

The hands are good enough for the chances he creates and not good enough to create them from nothing. He scores around the net and off the rush rather than by beating people, and his shot is accurate rather than heavy.

He kills penalties and is trusted in the last minute of a period, which for an undrafted forward is the whole story of a career.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 195, and he plays much larger. He initiates contact on the forecheck, works the walls, and gets to the front of the net despite giving away several inches every time.

The style has cost him. He has had a couple of injury-shortened seasons and this one was another.

The Intangibles

Undrafted out of Denver, waived early in his career, and now nearly 500 games in with a real role on a good team. Nobody in the room has to be told what his standard is.

At 31, the question is how much of the speed is left, because everything he does is downstream of it.

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.

  • disciplined· stays out of the box

    0.12 penalty minutes a game over 69, 3rd percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 962 minutes

Expected goals
54%
82nd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
54.7%
90th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 36 against. Expected: 40.2 and 34.2.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
89th
Numbers
82nd

The two rank him within 7 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 — 80 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 · 69 games

Top speed
24.2 mph
99th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
2.00 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.62 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
88.2 mph
70th pct

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

8

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 5 assists, 30 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 962 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
LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.0% — 2.1 above the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 962 minutes at five-on-five — 56th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Quinton Byfield56.8%51.3%50.7%
Mikey Anderson56.7%51.7%48.6%
Alex Laferriere57.3%51.5%50.0%

56.8% together, 51.3% for him apart and 50.7% for Byfield apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

237 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.