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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | PIT | 8 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0.0 | 18:07 |
| 2025-26 | PIT | 39 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 5.6 | 12:44 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 47 | 2 | 12 | 14 | -10 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 3.9 | 13:39 |
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
2 goals and 5 assists in 39 games — 7 points, minus-10, at 12:44 a night. His first real NHL season, at 22.
The Finesse Game
A passer. 57 unblocked attempts, 2 goals, median 24 feet with 46 per cent from inside 20 — good ice and almost no volume.
14 points in 47 career games. He was a prolific junior and American League playmaker and none of it has arrived yet.
The Physical Game
6 foot even and 184 pounds, and light. 10 penalty minutes in 39 games. He does not go near the interior and cannot hold a puck under pressure.
The Intangibles
56.1 per cent of the expected goals — 99th percentile — and 57.1 per cent of the shot attempts, 95th, across 460 minutes, with the chances 20.8 to 16.3 in his favour.
Those are among the best figures in this book and they belong to a player with 7 points, in 460 sheltered minutes, on a club that finished 4th at generating offence.
Both halves of that need holding at once. The ice tilted hard whenever he was on it; nothing came of it.
He is 23, a 51st overall pick acquired from Carolina, and the most interesting small-sample page on this roster. Ask again after 100 games.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
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.
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
65% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 460 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.1%
- 93rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 57.1%
- 95th 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: 10 for, 18 against. Expected: 20.8 and 16.3.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 66 points above where the report does. 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 — 68 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 · 39 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 44th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.33 a game
- Distance
- 2.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.7 mph
- 49th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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
4
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 3 assists, 12 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 460 minutes at five-on-five
- Ben Kindel50%
- Tommy Novak32%
- Rutger McGroarty24%
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
- PIT took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.1% — 4.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 460 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Kindel | 61.0% | 50.7% | 50.5% |
| Kris Letang | 46.6% | 61.8% | 50.6% |
| Ryan Shea | 59.0% | 54.7% | 51.6% |
61.0% together, 50.7% for him apart and 50.5% for Kindel 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
57 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 33 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.