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Trevor Zegras

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

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

2020-21	ANA	24	3	10	13	+6	12	0	0	0	53	5.7	15:24
2021-22	ANA	75	23	38	61	-21	50	9	0	5	181	12.7	17:54
2022-23	ANA	81	23	42	65	-24	88	4	0	3	184	12.5	18:50
2023-24	ANA	31	6	9	15	-1	30	1	0	1	73	8.2	17:05
2024-25	ANA	57	12	20	32	-8	23	1	0	1	98	12.2	17:02
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	268	67	119	186	-48	203	15	0	10	589	11.4	17:41

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.

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.

playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“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.”
forechecks-aggressivelyhe lacks it· first man in, and on the puck
“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.”
wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“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.”
defensively-responsiblehe lacks it· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“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 numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 757 minutes

Expected goals: 42.8%; 9th pct
Shot attempts: 46.2%; 20th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 36 against. Expected: 29.1 and 39.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

55th

Numbers

9th

The report ranks him 46 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 57 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 41st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.75 a game
Distance: 2.74 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.3 mph; 35th 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.

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 42.8% — 1.8 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

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Alex Killorn	43.4%	42.2%	50.9%
Mason McTavish	41.3%	43.8%	45.7%
Leo Carlsson	42.9%	42.7%	45.3%

43.4% together, 42.2% for him apart and 50.9% for Killorn apart. Killorn was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for 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.