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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | EDM | 36 | 0 | 5 | 5 | +15 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.0 | 13:33 |
| 2023-24 | EDM | 78 | 1 | 10 | 11 | +3 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 2.4 | 15:44 |
| 2024-25 | VAN/PIT/SJS | 51 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -9 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0.0 | 15:55 |
| 2025-26 | SJS | 53 | 1 | 6 | 7 | +7 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 2.9 | 18:11 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 218 | 2 | 24 | 26 | +16 | 198 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 120 | 1.7 | 16:01 |
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 6 assists in 53 games — 7 points, plus-7, at 18:11 a night with 68 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in San Jose.
His 218th career game.
The Finesse Game
55 unblocked attempts from a median of 57 feet, 85 per cent of them from beyond 40 and 5 per cent from inside 20, 1 goal.
2 goals in 218 career games. 6 assists in 53 games is close to the bottom of this edition and no club has ever wanted anything else.
The Physical Game
6-7 and 225 pounds, and the reach is the entire proposition — forwards cannot get around him because there is no route past the stick. 68 penalty minutes.
He clears his crease, blocks shots, and is genuinely difficult to play against in the offensive zone he defends. The skating is heavy and speed beats him wide.
The Intangibles
49.7 per cent of the expected goals, 52nd percentile, and 47.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 33rd, across 771 minutes in San Jose, with the goals 28-28 in his favour.
Those are below-average numbers on a club that finished with the fourth-worst goaltending in the league.
He is 30, a 183rd overall pick who did not reach the NHL until 27, and a seventh defenceman whose value is entirely situational. In a series against a club with a big net-front forward, he plays.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
39% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 771 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.7%
- 53rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.8%
- 34th 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: 28 for, 28 against. Expected: 26.8 and 27.2.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 38 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 — 65 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 · 53 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 70th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.25 a game
- Distance
- 2.41 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.5 mph
- 18th 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
2
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 2 assists, 11 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with SJS · 771 minutes at five-on-five
- Dmitry Orlov23%
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
- SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.7% — 2.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 771 minutes at five-on-five — 36th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Dickinson | 51.8% | 47.8% | 44.7% |
| Collin Graf | 52.8% | 48.4% | 45.8% |
| Macklin Celebrini | 55.3% | 47.3% | 50.6% |
51.8% together, 47.8% for him apart and 44.7% for Dickinson 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
55 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 85% from beyond forty.