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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | FLA | 20 | 5 | 3 | 8 | -11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 13.2 | 18:53 |
| 2014-15 | FLA | 50 | 7 | 15 | 22 | +9 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 7.9 | 14:00 |
| 2015-16 | FLA | 76 | 25 | 28 | 53 | +15 | 44 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 174 | 14.4 | 17:46 |
| 2016-17 | FLA | 82 | 23 | 31 | 54 | -13 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 230 | 10.0 | 20:50 |
| 2017-18 | FLA | 82 | 31 | 44 | 75 | -9 | 54 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 287 | 10.8 | 21:22 |
| 2018-19 | FLA | 55 | 10 | 24 | 34 | -9 | 54 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 158 | 6.3 | 19:40 |
| 2019-20 | FLA/CAR | 62 | 11 | 27 | 38 | -8 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 141 | 7.8 | 16:44 |
| 2020-21 | CAR | 47 | 17 | 26 | 43 | -3 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 123 | 13.8 | 18:14 |
| 2021-22 | CAR | 81 | 21 | 30 | 51 | +21 | 78 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 168 | 12.5 | 17:52 |
| 2022-23 | NYR | 82 | 22 | 42 | 64 | +3 | 58 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 225 | 9.8 | 19:19 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 82 | 25 | 52 | 77 | +16 | 55 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 215 | 11.6 | 21:27 |
| 2024-25 | NYR | 82 | 26 | 33 | 59 | 0 | 44 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 202 | 12.9 | 21:06 |
| 2025-26 | NYR | 67 | 16 | 37 | 53 | -16 | 64 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 114 | 14.0 | 20:33 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 868 | 239 | 392 | 631 | -5 | 593 | 65 | 16 | 35 | 2164 | 11.0 | 19:19 |
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
16 goals and 37 assists in 67 games — 53 points, minus-16, at 20:33 a night with 64 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in New York.
His 868th career game and his 631st point. 392 career assists.
The Finesse Game
206 unblocked attempts, 19 goals, median 21 feet with 46 per cent from inside 20 — very good ice for a 33-year-old centre.
37 assists in 67 games is a strong rate and the playmaking has held up better than the legs.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 187 pounds, and he plays far heavier than that — 64 penalty minutes, a full season of faceoff work, and a long record of being detested by opponents.
He wins draws at one of the best rates in the league and that alone has value in a series.
The Intangibles
45.3 per cent of the expected goals, 17th percentile, against 49.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 52nd, across 977 minutes in New York — with the chances 35.3 for and 42.6 against.
That 4-point gap between attempts and chances is the wrong way round: he was on the ice for as many shots as the opposition and considerably worse ones.
He is 33, a third-round pick, and joins a club that needs a second-line centre while Cooley grows. 53 points says he can still be one; the underlying work says not for much longer.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 977 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.3%
- 17th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.6%
- 53rd 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: 42 for, 42 against. Expected: 35.3 and 42.6.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 72 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 — 80 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 · 67 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 85th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.90 a game
- Distance
- 3.27 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.1 mph
- 88th 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
5
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 4 assists, 20 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with NYR · 977 minutes at five-on-five
- Will Cuylle43%
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 45.3% — 2.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 977 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Will Cuylle | 46.8% | 44.3% | 48.5% |
| Vladislav Gavrikov | 43.4% | 46.5% | 51.6% |
| Braden Schneider | 41.2% | 47.8% | 45.0% |
46.8% together, 44.3% for him apart and 48.5% for Cuylle apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
206 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.