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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10 | BUF | 82 | 11 | 37 | 48 | +13 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 104 | 10.6 | 23:44 |
| 2010-11 | BUF | 80 | 10 | 27 | 37 | 0 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 122 | 8.2 | 22:27 |
| 2011-12 | BUF | 55 | 8 | 15 | 23 | +5 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 84 | 9.5 | 22:29 |
| 2012-13 | BUF | 39 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -8 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 48 | 6.3 | 21:19 |
| 2013-14 | BUF | 62 | 9 | 13 | 22 | -26 | 58 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 9.1 | 21:54 |
| 2014-15 | BUF/WPG | 71 | 7 | 21 | 28 | -6 | 77 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 5.7 | 24:39 |
| 2015-16 | WPG | 73 | 9 | 18 | 27 | +6 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 6.4 | 22:37 |
| 2016-17 | WPG | 11 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 12.5 | 22:12 |
| 2017-18 | WPG | 82 | 6 | 30 | 36 | +9 | 48 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 150 | 4.0 | 21:26 |
| 2018-19 | WPG | 80 | 9 | 22 | 31 | +11 | 63 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 156 | 5.8 | 20:21 |
| 2019-20 | VAN | 68 | 6 | 15 | 21 | -7 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 134 | 4.5 | 21:30 |
| 2020-21 | VAN | 55 | 6 | 15 | 21 | -8 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 109 | 5.5 | 22:05 |
| 2021-22 | VAN | 82 | 1 | 17 | 18 | +15 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128 | 0.8 | 21:59 |
| 2022-23 | VAN | 78 | 1 | 16 | 17 | -16 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1.0 | 20:54 |
| 2023-24 | VAN | 77 | 5 | 24 | 29 | +16 | 77 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 93 | 5.4 | 18:57 |
| 2024-25 | VAN | 71 | 6 | 18 | 24 | +2 | 74 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 87 | 6.9 | 20:48 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1066 | 99 | 296 | 395 | +11 | 861 | 19 | 7 | 19 | 1694 | 5.8 | 21:48 |
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
6 goals and 18 assists in 71 games — 24 points at 20:48 a night, plus-2, with a shorthanded goal and 74 penalty minutes.
50.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 43rd percentile, across 1,236 minutes. His ice went 50-51 against an expectation of 45.65-45.35 — five goals better than expected for and nine worse against.
The Finesse Game
87 attempts at a median of 54 feet with 69 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 6.9 per cent for 6 goals.
18 assists. The first pass is functional and the puck game has always been the least reliable part of him; under pressure the decision is sometimes the wrong one, which after sixteen seasons is unlikely to change.
The Physical Game
6-8 and 229 and among the tallest men ever to play in the league. He defends the rush with reach that is genuinely difficult to get around, he clears his crease, and he finishes checks that hurt.
74 penalty minutes in 71 games is a high rate and a share of it is the stick foul that follows a man this size being beaten to the outside. He crosses the line as well, and he has 861 penalty minutes across his career.
The Intangibles
Twelfth overall in 2008, a Calder Trophy at 20 in Buffalo, and 1,066 games and 395 points across three organisations.
He is 35 and he has played more than twenty minutes a night in fifteen of his sixteen seasons. Whatever the arguments about the contract, the availability has never been in question.
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.
“He defends the rush with reach that is genuinely difficult to get around, he clears his crease, and he finishes checks that hurt.”
“He defends the rush with reach that is genuinely difficult to get around, he clears his crease, and he finishes checks that hurt.”
“He defends the rush with reach that is genuinely difficult to get around, he clears his crease, and he finishes checks that hurt.”
“**74 penalty minutes in 71 games** is a high rate and a share of it is the stick foul that follows a man this size being beaten to the outside.”
“He crosses the line as well, and he has 861 penalty minutes across his career.”
“The first pass is functional and the puck game has always been the least reliable part of him; under pressure the decision is sometimes the wrong one, which after sixteen seasons is unlikely to change.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,236 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.2%
- 55th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.4%
- 28th 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: 50 for, 51 against. Expected: 45.6 and 45.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 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 — 70 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 · 71 games
- Top speed
- 23.4 mph
- 96th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.73 a game
- Distance
- 2.94 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 101.1 mph
- 98th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 · 1236 minutes at five-on-five
- Quinn Hughes31%
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
- VAN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.2% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,236 minutes at five-on-five — 88th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quinn Hughes | 58.1% | 46.3% | 52.6% |
| Conor Garland | 54.4% | 48.4% | 51.9% |
| Brock Boeser | 46.8% | 51.5% | 48.0% |
58.1% together, 46.3% for him apart and 52.6% for Hughes 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
148 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 36 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.