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Victor Hedman

1,164 games, 6-7, and 33 of them last season.

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

2009-10	TBL	74	4	16	20	-3	79	0	0	0	90	4.4	20:51
2010-11	TBL	79	3	23	26	+3	70	0	0	0	101	3.0	21:01
2011-12	TBL	61	5	18	23	-9	65	0	0	0	82	6.1	23:06
2012-13	TBL	44	4	16	20	+1	31	0	0	0	76	5.3	22:40
2013-14	TBL	75	13	42	55	+5	53	3	0	2	170	7.6	22:26
2014-15	TBL	59	10	28	38	+12	40	3	0	2	115	8.7	22:41
2015-16	TBL	78	10	37	47	+21	46	1	0	0	180	5.6	23:04
2016-17	TBL	79	16	56	72	+3	47	4	0	5	166	9.6	24:31
2017-18	TBL	77	17	46	63	+32	54	2	0	1	216	7.9	25:51
2018-19	TBL	70	12	42	54	+24	44	2	0	4	182	6.6	22:46
2019-20	TBL	66	11	44	55	+27	31	4	0	3	155	7.1	24:04
2020-21	TBL	54	9	36	45	+5	28	1	0	2	136	6.6	25:03
2021-22	TBL	82	20	65	85	+26	36	6	0	6	219	9.1	25:05
2022-23	TBL	76	9	40	49	+10	42	1	1	1	185	4.9	23:43
2023-24	TBL	78	13	63	76	+18	76	4	0	2	168	7.7	24:48
2024-25	TBL	79	15	51	66	+18	30	4	0	1	181	8.3	23:05
2025-26	TBL	33	1	16	17	-1	10	0	0	0	50	2.0	18:52
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1164	172	639	811	+192	782	35	1	29	2472	7.0	23:19

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

1 goal and 16 assists in 33 games — 17 points, minus-1, at 18:52 a night with only 10 penalty minutes. 49 games missed.

His 1,164th career game and his 811th point. 639 career assists.

He turns 36 in December.

The Finesse Game

The passing is intact and it was always the best part. 16 assists in 33 games is a 50-point pace and the outlet from his own end remains among the cleanest in the league.

The shot has gone entirely: 84 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet, 81 per cent from beyond 40, 1 goal. 172 goals in 1,164 games.

The Physical Game

6-7 and 244 pounds — the largest defenceman in this edition — and the reach is still the reason forwards cannot get around him when he is upright.

10 penalty minutes in 33 games. The skating has slowed a great deal and the recovery step is gone.

The Intangibles

48.0 per cent of the expected goals, 37th percentile — the worst mark of any Tampa skater — across 469 minutes, on a club where 7 players cleared the eightieth.

That is the number that matters on this page, and 49 games missed is the other one.

4 points in his last 10. He is 35, a Norris winner, a Conn Smythe winner, 2 Stanley Cups, and 17 seasons for 1 organisation. The club has already built a blue line around Moser and D’Astous that does not need him to be what he was, which is the kindest thing that could have happened.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 469 minutes

Expected goals: 48%; 37th pct
Shot attempts: 51.4%; 70th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 22 for, 19 against. Expected: 20.1 and 21.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

86th

Numbers

37th

The report ranks him 49 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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 · 33 games

Top speed: 22.2 mph; 69th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.45 a game
Distance: 2.70 miles a game
Hardest shot: 101.4 mph; 98th 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 3 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 469 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: TBL took 53.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.0% — 5.9 below the club he did it on.
The role: 469 minutes at five-on-five — 16th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
J.J. Moser	51.5%	45.1%	56.2%
Brandon Hagel	54.5%	44.4%	60.1%
Jake Guentzel	40.2%	52.1%	56.6%

51.5% together, 45.1% for him apart and 56.2% for Moser apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Moser 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

84 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 46 feet. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 81% from beyond forty.