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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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Vincent Iorio

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Vincent Iorio

New York Rangers Defense #6

6-4, 36 career games, and no goals in any of them.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2022-23WSH30110000030.014:21
2023-24WSH6000+1000060.09:50
2025-26SJS/NYR27033-412000150.015:44
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—36044-312000240.014:38

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 27 games, minus-4, at 15:44 a night with 12 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in San Jose.

The Finesse Game

26 unblocked attempts from a median of 60 feet — the longest average distance in this edition alongside Gudas — with 4 per cent from inside 20, and no goals.

No goals in 36 career NHL games, and 4 points. He is not being asked to create and could not if he were.

The Physical Game

6-4, 220, and he defends with reach. 12 penalty minutes in 27 games.

He is not yet strong enough to own his net front against heavy wingers, which at 23 is normal and at his size is the thing that has to arrive.

The Intangibles

42.3 per cent of the expected goals, 6th percentile, and 44.8 per cent of the shot attempts, tenth, across 387 minutes on the worst team in the league by expected goals.

That context is doing a lot of work and it does not rescue the number.

He is 23, a 55th overall pick on his second organisation, and a seventh defenceman. New York’s blue line has Fox, Gavrikov, Durzi, Robertson, Schneider and Pettersson ahead of him. This is depth, and the page cannot say more than that honestly.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 387 minutes

Expected goals
42.3%
6th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
44.8%
11th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 16 for, 20 against. Expected: 13.9 and 19.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
2nd
Numbers
6th

The two rank him within 4 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 — 60 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 · 27 games

Top speed
20.2 mph
10th pct

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

Bursts over 20 mph
0.07 a game

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

Distance
2.22 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
87.8 mph
36th 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 with SJS · 309 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
NYR took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.3% — 5.7 below the club he did it on.
The role
387 minutes at five-on-five — 10th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Sam Dickinson35.9%44.8%47.9%
Mario Ferraro42.6%42.2%47.2%
Macklin Celebrini42.0%42.5%52.0%

35.9% together, 44.8% for him apart and 47.9% for Dickinson apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

26 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 81% from beyond forty.