Wyatt Johnston

45 goals, 27 of them on the power play, and the 13th percentile at even strength.

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

2022-23	DAL	82	24	17	41	+6	20	3	0	3	160	15.0	15:29
2023-24	DAL	82	32	33	65	+14	38	3	3	3	216	14.8	17:00
2024-25	DAL	82	33	38	71	+2	14	11	3	4	202	16.3	18:56
2025-26	DAL	82	45	41	86	-5	32	27	0	4	206	21.8	20:07
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	328	134	129	263	+17	104	44	6	14	784	17.1	17:53

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

45 goals and 41 assists in all 82 games — 86 points, minus-5, at 20:07 a night. 27 of the goals came on the power play, which is an extraordinary share and the single most important number on this page.

The Finesse Game

He scores from the slot and almost nowhere else. 54 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 19, with 6 per cent from beyond 40 — one of the tightest distributions of any high-volume shooter in this book.

That is a player who has been placed in the best scoring ice in hockey — the left circle on a fifth-ranked power play — and who converts from there at a rate almost nobody matches.

The hands are quick and the release is deceptive. 41 assists is a real number too.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 187 pounds, and light. 32 penalty minutes. He wins position rather than battles and he is not going to be the man who makes room for himself.

The Intangibles

Here is the split that matters for anyone drafting him. At 5-on-5 he was on for 51.0 per cent of the expected goals — 54th percentile, dead average — and 45.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 16th percentile. The goals at 5-on-5 went 32-36 against.

So: an elite power-play forward and an ordinary even-strength one. Both are true, and 86 points disguises the second.

He is 23 and 9 points in his last 10, 6 of them goals. If the power play regresses, so does he, and there is nothing underneath at even strength to catch him.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
67.2% of his attempts in the slot, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
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
14:56 a game at five-on-five, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,225 minutes

Expected goals: 51%; 64th pct
Shot attempts: 45.6%; 16th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 54 for, 48 against. Expected: 57.4 and 55.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

78th

Numbers

64th

The two rank him within 14 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 — 77 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.0 mph; 40th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.06 a game
Distance: 3.24 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.9 mph; 51st 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 — 6 goals, 3 assists, 23 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1225 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, 2025-26

The club: DAL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.0% — 0.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,225 minutes at five-on-five — 84th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mikko Rantanen	52.1%	49.5%	48.9%
Jason Robertson	54.8%	48.0%	56.1%
Esa Lindell	55.9%	47.9%	53.3%

52.1% together, 49.5% for him apart and 48.9% for Rantanen apart. Rantanen was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Rantanen 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

305 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 48 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.