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Will Borgen

16th percentile in shot attempts, 20th in expected goals, and 18 minutes a night regardless.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2018-19	BUF	4	0	0	0	-5	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	16:33
2020-21	BUF	10	0	0	0	-4	4	0	0	0	7	0.0	16:16
2021-22	SEA	36	2	6	8	+1	28	0	0	0	49	4.1	15:17
2022-23	SEA	82	3	17	20	+11	47	0	0	1	76	4.0	16:22
2023-24	SEA	82	3	22	25	-5	65	0	0	0	97	3.1	17:35
2024-25	SEA/NYR	84	5	10	15	-4	42	0	1	0	81	6.2	17:05
2025-26	NYR	75	5	10	15	+3	41	0	0	2	69	7.2	18:03
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	373	18	65	83	-3	227	0	1	3	381	4.7	17:02

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

5 goals and 10 assists in 75 games, plus-3, at 18:03 a night. His 5-on-5 minutes were played in New York.

The Finesse Game

Minimal by design. 96 unblocked attempts from a median distance of 53 feet, 5 goals, and only 6 per cent of his shots came from inside 20. He is a point shooter who is not really a shooter.

10 assists in 75 games from a top-4 defenceman is a low number and reflects a player who moves it to the nearest option rather than the best one.

The Physical Game

6-3, 199, and he defends honestly — boxes out, blocks shots, 41 penalty minutes. He is not a punisher but he is not easy to get past either.

The Intangibles

The numbers are hard on him and they were hard on him in a good team’s line-up, which removes the usual excuse. 45.6 per cent of the expected goals, 19th percentile; 45.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 16th percentile. The expected goals went 40.5 to 48.4 against across 1,176 minutes, which is a full season’s worth of evidence.

He is 29 with 373 games behind him and a reputation as a steady defensive defenceman. The arithmetic has never agreed with that reputation and last season it disagreed loudly.

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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
83.3% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
hard-shot· beats a goaltender from range
4 of 80 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 5.0%, 94th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,176 minutes

Expected goals: 45.6%; 19th pct
Shot attempts: 45.7%; 17th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 45 for, 45 against. Expected: 40.5 and 48.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

4th

Numbers

19th

The two rank him within 15 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 — 61 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 · 75 games

Top speed: 22.3 mph; 75th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.64 a game
Distance: 2.51 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.4 mph; 25th 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 4 assists, 10 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with NYR · 1176 minutes at five-on-five

Matthew Robertson38%
Carson Soucyoff the roster32%
Braden Schneider12%

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 45.6% — 2.4 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,176 minutes at five-on-five — 80th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Matthew Robertson	47.2%	44.5%	49.6%
Carson Soucy	41.9%	47.2%	48.3%
Alexis Lafrenière	53.9%	41.8%	53.2%

47.2% together, 44.5% for him apart and 49.6% for Robertson 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

96 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 45 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.