Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Trevor Zegras

Philadelphia Flyers Center

Acquired from Anaheim in the summer after two 60-point seasons and three years of injuries and diminishing returns.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21ANA2431013+612000535.715:24
2021-22ANA75233861-215090518112.717:54
2022-23ANA81234265-248840318412.518:50
2023-24ANA316915-130101738.217:05
2024-25ANA57122032-8231019812.217:02
2025-26 so far
Career26867119186-482031501058911.417:41

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

12 goals and 20 assists in 57 games for Anaheim — 32 points at 17:02 a night, minus-8, with 23 penalty minutes. He has now missed a quarter or more of three straight seasons.

The two seasons before the injuries were 61 and 65 points at 20 and 21. Nothing since has been close, and Philadelphia acquired him in the summer on the theory that the reason is the clubs and the health rather than the player.

The Finesse Game

The hands are the reason he exists as a story. He is among the most creative players in the league with the puck in a small space, he attempts passes almost nobody else sees, and a good share of them arrive.

98 attempts and 12 goals at 12.2 per cent. The shot is real and it has never been the first thing about him; 20 assists in 57 games is the honest measure of what he is for.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 185 and light. He does not forecheck with any force, he does not win a puck on the wall, and 23 penalty minutes in 57 games is a player who is not in that part of the game.

The defensive detail has been the criticism in Anaheim for four years and it is the reason he has been used on the wing as often as at centre.

The Intangibles

Ninth overall in 2019 and 268 games in, with 186 points and a highlight reel that got further than the production did.

He is 24. Philadelphia gave up Ryan Poehling and draft capital for him in the summer, which is a low price for a player who scored 65 points at 21, and the whole trade is a bet that the first two seasons were the real ones.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 757 minutes

Expected goals
43.1%
8th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
46.3%
19th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 27 for, 25 against. Expected: 28.5 and 37.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
55th
Numbers
8th

The report ranks him 47 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with ANA · 757 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
ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.1% — 1.5 below the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 757 minutes at five-on-five — 33rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Alex Killorn45.7%40.6%49.4%
Mason McTavish39.7%45.5%43.6%
Leo Carlsson46.1%41.5%44.2%

45.7% together, 40.6% for him apart and 49.4% for Killorn apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Killorn and did not follow him.

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

153 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.