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Zachary L'Heureux
Colorado Avalanche Left Wing #68
A first-round agitator with 25 games last season and a role still to be earned.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | NSH | 62 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -6 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 6.4 | 12:03 |
| 2025-26 | NSH | 25 | 4 | 1 | 5 | +3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 12.5 | 13:23 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 87 | 9 | 11 | 20 | -3 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 8.2 | 12:26 |
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
4 goals and 1 assist in 25 games, plus-3, on 13 and a half minutes a night with 21 penalty minutes. Across 87 career games he has 20 points.
The Finesse Game
Thin so far. 32 shots in 25 games is a decent rate for the role and 4 goals from it is honest finishing, but a single assist in 25 games describes a player who is not making plays for anyone.
The hands are adequate around the net and nothing more at this level yet.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 197, and this is what he is here for. He hits, he agitates, he takes penalties — 21 minutes in 25 games — and he plays with the sort of edge that draws opponents into responses.
The junior record includes suspensions, which is the context for the edge.
The Intangibles
The 27th pick in 2021, on his second organisation, and a player whose value depends entirely on whether the agitation comes with enough hockey to justify a lineup spot.
At 23 he is exactly at the age where that gets decided. 13 minutes a night on a contender is a real opportunity and 87 games is not yet an answer.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 281 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.2%
- 56th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.6%
- 23rd 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: 8 for, 5 against. Expected: 11.3 and 11.2.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 17 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 — 76 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 · 25 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 24th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.92 a game
- Distance
- 2.10 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.1 mph
- 38th 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 15 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
4
points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 1 assists, 26 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with NSH · 281 minutes at five-on-five
- Tyson Jostoff the roster40%
- Joakim Kemell21%
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
- NSH took 47.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.2% — 2.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 281 minutes at five-on-five — 5th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Haula | 49.9% | 50.4% | 45.5% |
| Tyson Jost | 57.6% | 45.6% | 44.2% |
| Brady Skjei | 49.7% | 50.6% | 47.3% |
49.9% together, 50.4% for him apart and 45.5% for Haula apart. Haula was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Haula 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
46 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 63% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.