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37

Warren Foegele

Los Angeles Kings Left Wing

24 goals and a plus-36 — the best rating on the club — on a 56.7 per cent chance share.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2017-18CAR2213+30000633.311:56
2018-19CAR7710515-17200031069.412:30
2019-20CAR68131730+93403112910.113:43
2020-21CAR53101020+4200019111.014:09
2021-22EDM82121426-9242031428.512:37
2022-23EDM67131528+72801412610.312:42
2023-24EDM82202141+34711220110.013:59
2024-25LAK82242246+362410719912.116:10
2025-26 so far—————————————
Career—513104105209+361974521100010.413:42

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

24 goals and 22 assists in 82 games for 46 points, plus-36 — the best rating on the club — on 16:10 a night with 7 game-winners.

57.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 97th percentile, with on-ice goals of 51-24 against an expected 48-35. 199 shots and 24 goals at 12.1 per cent, with 43 per cent of the attempts from inside 20 feet.

The Finesse Game

A straight-line forechecking winger who has learned where goals come from. He arrives at the net and shoots quickly, and the release is decent without being a weapon.

22 assists is honest. There is no creation here and none required — his job is to win the puck back and get it to somebody who can do something with it, and then to be at the net when they do.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 205, and he forechecks with genuine force. He finishes checks at speed, wins pucks along the wall, and is one of the more difficult third-line wingers in the league to play against.

24 penalty minutes over 82 games is remarkably disciplined for the style, and the durability has been excellent.

The Intangibles

A third-round pick, four organisations, and a career of being underestimated at each one.

At 29 the projection is 20 goals and the same relentless work. The plus-36 is inflated by a very good team and the 96th-percentile chance share is not.

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
  • he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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

  • forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck

    “6-2 and 205, and he forechecks with genuine force.”

  • punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally

    “He finishes checks at speed, wins pucks along the wall, and is one of the more difficult third-line wingers in the league to play against.”

  • wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line

    “wins pucks along the wall”

  • net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips

    “He arrives at the net and shoots quickly”

  • playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes

    “22 assists is honest. There is no creation here and none required”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,092 minutes

Expected goals
57.5%
97th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
54.4%
89th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 51 for, 24 against. Expected: 47.6 and 35.2.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
84th
Numbers
97th

The two rank him within 13 points of one another. 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.

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
23.2 mph
92nd pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.71 a game

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

Distance
2.60 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
89.3 mph
75th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.9

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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1092 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
LAK took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 57.5% — 3.5 above the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 1,092 minutes at five-on-five — 75th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Trevor Moore56.7%58.1%53.3%
Quinton Byfield58.2%57.0%55.8%
Vladislav Gavrikov60.4%55.6%53.2%

56.7% together, 58.1% for him apart and 53.3% for Moore apart. Moore was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Moore than for him.

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

289 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 24 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.