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Vincent Trocheck

26 goals, 7 game-winners and 6 shorthanded goals at 21:06 a night, from a 5-11 centre of 32.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	801	223	355	578	+11	529	63	14	34	2050	10.9	19:12

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

26 goals and 33 assists in all 82 games — 59 points, even, at 21:06 a night, the heaviest forward workload on the club.

7 game-winning goals and 6 shorthanded goals, the latter among the most in the league. 48.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 34th percentile, across 1,196 minutes, with the on-ice goals 58-52 against an expectation of 49.96-53.21 — a bad chance share and a worse result, in the hardest minutes on the roster.

The Finesse Game

He has removed the perimeter from his game. 43 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet at a median of 22, and 16 per cent from beyond 40, which is a shot chart belonging to a man ten years younger and forty pounds heavier.

The hands are good in tight and the release is quick, and 26 goals at 12.9 per cent is what that produces. The passing is a genuine second skill rather than a courtesy — 355 career assists — and it is why he can carry a line that cannot finish.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 187 and he plays a great deal heavier. He wins draws, he goes to the front of the net against men who outweigh him by forty pounds, and he does not get moved off a puck easily for his size.

44 penalty minutes and a long career total of 529 says the edge is real and occasionally expensive. He is an irritant by design: he talks, he finishes late, and he draws the retaliation more often than he takes it.

The Intangibles

Twelve seasons, 801 games, 578 points, and a third-round pick who has outplayed his draft position every year since he was 22.

He takes the draw, he kills penalties, he plays 21 minutes at 32, and 6 shorthanded goals is a specific and unusual skill. The draw is not usually in his own end: 56.3 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 75th percentile. This is the most reliable player on the roster and the one whose contract will look worst in three years.

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
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

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
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:35 a game at five-on-five, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He wins draws, he goes to the front of the net against men who outweigh him by forty pounds, and he does not get moved off a puck easily for his size.”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“he does not get moved off a puck easily for his size.”
agitatora strength· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“He is an irritant by design: he talks, he finishes late, and he draws the retaliation more often than he takes it.”
faceoffsa strength· takes the draw that starts it
“He takes the draw, he kills penalties, he plays 21 minutes at 32, and 6 shorthanded goals is a specific and unusual skill.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“He takes the draw, he kills penalties, he plays 21 minutes at 32, and 6 shorthanded goals is a specific and unusual skill.”
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“The passing is a genuine second skill rather than a courtesy — 355 career assists — and it is why he can carry a line that cannot finish.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,196 minutes

Expected goals: 48.4%; 38th pct
Shot attempts: 51.6%; 70th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 58 for, 52 against. Expected: 50.0 and 53.2.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

84th

Numbers

38th

The report ranks him 46 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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, 2024-25 · 82 games

Top speed: 24.0 mph; 99th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.73 a game
Distance: 3.34 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.1 mph; 89th pct

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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1196 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, 2024-25

The club: NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.4% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,196 minutes at five-on-five — 84th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Artemi Panarin	52.1%	36.7%	46.7%
Alexis Lafrenière	49.9%	45.0%	47.8%
Adam Fox	52.2%	45.9%	55.3%

52.1% together, 36.7% for him apart and 46.7% for Panarin 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

316 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 27 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.