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| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | SJS | 74 | 18 | 27 | 45 | -15 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 127 | 14.2 | 15:51 |
| 2025-26 | SJS | 69 | 24 | 35 | 59 | +1 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 166 | 14.5 | 18:11 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 143 | 42 | 62 | 104 | -14 | 34 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 293 | 14.3 | 16:59 |
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
24 goals and 35 assists in 69 games — 59 points, plus-1, at 18:11 a night with 8 power-play goals. 104 points in 143 career games.
He turned 21 in March.
The Finesse Game
The hands are the draw and they are extraordinary — he manipulates defenders in tight and makes passes through seams that most players do not see, which is what a 4th overall pick out of the US programme is supposed to look like.
240 unblocked attempts, 24 goals, median 29 feet with only 30 per cent from inside 20. Like Celebrini he is scoring from range, and like Celebrini that is a release rather than a location.
35 assists in 69 games is the real number.
The Physical Game
6 foot even and 180 pounds, and this is the whole reservation. 16 penalty minutes.
He does not go to the interior, does not win a wall battle, and is moved off pucks by grown defencemen. 2 summers of weight is the standard answer and he has had one.
The Intangibles
49.7 per cent of the expected goals, 52nd percentile, and 48.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 42nd, across 995 minutes, with the goals 50-37 in his favour.
Those are respectable figures for a 21-year-old on a club that was outshot all year.
12 points in his last 10. He is 21, and the pairing with Celebrini gives San Jose 2 centres born within 15 months of each other who have already produced 174 points between them in a single season.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 995 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.7%
- 53rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.6%
- 42nd 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: 50 for, 37 against. Expected: 44.4 and 44.9.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 33 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.
The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 2 points from the numbers; this one lands 33. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.
All three 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 — 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, 2025-26 · 69 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 43rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.38 a game
- Distance
- 2.86 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.3 mph
- 84th 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
12
points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 9 assists, 26 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 980 minutes at five-on-five
- Collin Graf29%
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
- SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.7% — 2.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 995 minutes at five-on-five — 59th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macklin Celebrini | 50.9% | 40.1% | 51.8% |
| Dmitry Orlov | 51.0% | 48.7% | 49.3% |
| John Klingberg | 47.7% | 50.8% | 48.2% |
50.9% together, 40.1% for him apart and 51.8% for Celebrini apart. He was worse away from Celebrini, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Celebrini did.
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
240 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 24 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.