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Zach Bogosian

18 years on from being the third pick, still playing a hard 14 minutes and hitting everything that moves.

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

2008-09	ATL	47	9	10	19	+11	47	2	1	1	90	10.0	18:06
2009-10	ATL	81	10	13	23	-18	61	3	1	0	155	6.5	21:25
2010-11	ATL	71	5	12	17	-27	29	0	0	1	155	3.2	22:24
2011-12	WPG	65	5	25	30	-3	71	1	0	0	150	3.3	23:19
2012-13	WPG	33	5	9	14	-5	29	0	0	0	85	5.9	23:07
2013-14	WPG	55	3	8	11	+3	48	0	0	0	134	2.2	22:55
2014-15	WPG/BUF	62	3	17	20	-6	78	0	0	0	125	2.4	23:39
2015-16	BUF	64	7	17	24	-11	68	3	0	1	121	5.8	22:21
2016-17	BUF	56	2	9	11	-17	46	0	0	1	73	2.7	20:05
2017-18	BUF	18	0	1	1	-9	20	0	0	0	29	0.0	19:09
2018-19	BUF	65	3	16	19	-5	52	0	1	0	93	3.2	21:38
2019-20	BUF/TBL	27	1	6	7	0	22	0	0	0	29	3.5	16:38
2020-21	TOR	45	0	4	4	+7	49	0	0	0	36	0.0	14:32
2021-22	TBL	48	3	5	8	+2	53	0	0	1	60	5.0	15:22
2022-23	TBL	46	1	4	5	-4	42	0	0	0	54	1.8	14:59
2023-24	TBL/MIN	65	3	11	14	+11	63	0	0	1	83	3.6	17:53
2024-25	MIN	81	4	12	16	-6	43	0	0	0	79	5.1	15:48
2025-26	MIN	41	2	4	6	+8	18	0	0	0	30	6.7	14:33
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	970	66	183	249	-69	839	9	3	6	1581	4.2	19:39

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

2 goals and 6 points in 41 games, plus-8, on 14 and a half minutes a night. He missed half the year, which is the story of the back half of his career.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 231, and it is the whole of his remaining value. He hits hard and often, he clears the front of his own net, and he is willing to fight. On a third pairing with sheltered minutes, that is a genuinely useful thing to have available in a playoff series.

He blocks shots and pays the physical price that comes with all of it, repeatedly.

The Finesse Game

Very little. 66 goals in 970 games, no power-play role for a decade, and a first pass that is safe rather than good. He does not carry the puck and does not join a rush.

The skating has slowed noticeably and he is beaten wide by fast wingers, which is why the minutes are what they are.

The Intangibles

The third pick in 2008 for a franchise that no longer exists in that city, and a career that turned into something entirely different from what was projected — a Cup, several organisations, and a long second act as a physical depth defenceman.

He is 36. This is a role that a club fills from within the moment the games start being missed.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 561 minutes

Expected goals: 47.7%; 34th pct
Shot attempts: 46.6%; 23rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 17 against. Expected: 21.7 and 23.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

38th

Numbers

34th

The two rank him within 4 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 — 70 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 · 41 games

Top speed: 22.0 mph; 63rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.37 a game
Distance: 2.02 miles a game
Hardest shot: 93.3 mph; 68th 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 — 1 goals, 2 assists, 12 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 561 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: MIN took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.7% — 2.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third pair, 561 minutes at five-on-five — 22nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jacob Middleton	45.0%	49.5%	50.4%
Yakov Trenin	48.1%	47.5%	49.1%
Kirill Kaprizov	50.9%	46.3%	53.9%

45.0% together, 49.5% for him apart and 50.4% for Middleton apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

49 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 59 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 86% from beyond forty.