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Vince Dunn
Seattle Kraken Defense #29
44 points, minus 24, and 52 goals for against 65 expected against.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | STL | 75 | 5 | 19 | 24 | +1 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 138 | 3.6 | 17:14 |
| 2018-19 | STL | 78 | 12 | 23 | 35 | +14 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 150 | 8.0 | 17:32 |
| 2019-20 | STL | 71 | 9 | 14 | 23 | +15 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 138 | 6.5 | 16:16 |
| 2020-21 | STL | 43 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -8 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 8.2 | 19:15 |
| 2021-22 | SEA | 73 | 7 | 28 | 35 | -21 | 63 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 121 | 5.8 | 20:41 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 81 | 14 | 50 | 64 | +28 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 149 | 9.4 | 23:40 |
| 2023-24 | SEA | 59 | 11 | 35 | 46 | +8 | 78 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 9.2 | 23:05 |
| 2024-25 | SEA | 62 | 11 | 28 | 39 | -3 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 137 | 8.0 | 22:05 |
| 2025-26 | SEA | 81 | 11 | 33 | 44 | -24 | 54 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 179 | 6.2 | 21:40 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 623 | 86 | 244 | 330 | +10 | 393 | 21 | 0 | 14 | 1205 | 7.1 | 20:09 |
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
11 goals and 33 assists in 81 games — 44 points, minus-24, at 21:40 a night with 54 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
The best puck-moving defenceman on the club by a distance. He skates out of trouble, carries through the neutral zone, and the outlet is quick and usually right.
The shot is volume rather than threat: 240 unblocked attempts from a median of 48 feet, 4 per cent from inside 20, 11 goals. 330 points in 623 career games is a genuine offensive defenceman’s rate.
The Physical Game
6 foot even, 200, and he defends with feet and stick rather than with body. 54 penalty minutes.
He is beaten in front of his own net by size and he does not clear it. The skating covers a great deal of that and not all of it.
The Intangibles
45.0 per cent of the expected goals, 14th percentile, and 45.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 18th, across 1,441 minutes — with the chances 53.3 for and 65.2 against.
That is a 13-goal deficit in expected goals in the largest workload on the blue line, and the minus-24 follows from it honestly.
No goals in his last 10. He is 29, and the argument about him is the oldest one in the sport: he creates a great deal and concedes more. Seattle’s goaltending covered 16 and a half goals more than the chances warranted last season, and without that this number is uglier still.
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.
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,441 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45%
- 15th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.9%
- 18th 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: 59 for, 59 against. Expected: 53.3 and 65.2.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 34 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 — 72 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 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 48th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.38 a game
- Distance
- 3.07 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.2 mph
- 74th 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 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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
3
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 26 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1441 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Larsson85%
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
- SEA took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.0% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,441 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Larsson | 44.3% | 48.5% | 46.1% |
| Chandler Stephenson | 38.4% | 48.5% | 38.6% |
| Matty Beniers | 49.6% | 42.8% | 45.6% |
44.3% together, 48.5% for him apart and 46.1% for Larsson apart. He was better away from Larsson, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Larsson.
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
240 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 38 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 70% from beyond forty.