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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Victor Mancini

Vancouver Canucks Defense

6-3, 24 games, and the nought-th percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2024-25NYR/VAN31268-910100277.415:18
2025-26VAN24033-127000140.013:44
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—552911-2117100414.914:37

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

No goals and 3 assists in 24 games — 3 points, minus-12, at 13:44 a night with 7 penalty minutes.

11 points in 55 career games.

The Finesse Game

16 unblocked attempts from a median of 52 feet, none of them from inside 20 feet, and none went in.

2 goals in 55 career games. 3 assists in 24 games is close to the bottom of this edition and there is no offensive component to speak of.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 229 pounds, and heavy. 7 penalty minutes in 24 games is a low rate for a defenceman of this type.

He clears his crease and blocks shots. The skating is the limitation and it is why he has not held a job.

The Intangibles

36.2 per cent of the expected goals and 37.6 per cent of the shot attempts — the nought-th percentile in both — across 319 minutes, with the goals 9 for and 21 against.

Those are among the worst figures in this book. 319 minutes is a small sample and it is not small enough to explain a 7-to-18 goal margin.

3 points in his last 10. He is 24, a 159th overall pick, and a depth defenceman on a club that had to dress 7 of them.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 319 minutes

Expected goals
36.2%
1st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
37.6%
0th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 9 for, 21 against. Expected: 9.6 and 17.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
11th
Numbers
1st

The two rank him within 10 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 — 64 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 · 24 games

Top speed
21.3 mph
35th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.46 a game

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

Distance
1.96 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
86.3 mph
29th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 88.9

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 11 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

3

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 13 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 319 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
VAN took 43.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 36.2% — 7.3 below the club he did it on.
The role
319 minutes at five-on-five — 6th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Marcus Pettersson36.4%36.1%42.9%
Zeev Buium32.6%37.5%45.1%
Aatu Räty39.3%35.2%44.5%

36.4% together, 36.1% for him apart and 42.9% for Pettersson apart. Pettersson 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

16 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 81% from beyond forty.