Zack MacEwen

3 points in 21 games and 21 penalty minutes, and a thirteenth forward.

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

2018-19	VAN	4	0	1	1	-4	5	0	0	0	2	0.0	7:11
2019-20	VAN	17	5	1	6	+6	20	0	0	0	17	29.4	9:37
2020-21	VAN	34	1	1	2	-2	44	0	0	0	31	3.2	8:38
2021-22	PHI	75	3	6	9	-15	110	0	0	1	82	3.7	9:40
2022-23	PHI/LAK	56	4	6	10	-11	66	0	0	3	73	5.5	11:35
2023-24	OTT	30	2	1	3	-4	57	0	0	1	17	11.8	6:24
2024-25	OTT	21	2	1	3	0	21	0	0	0	26	7.7	7:46
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	237	17	17	34	-30	323	0	0	5	248	6.9	9:21

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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 1 assist in 21 games for 3 points, even, on 7:46 a night with Ottawa.

26 shots in 21 games. The smallest role available and there is nothing else in the numbers.

The Finesse Game

None at NHL level. 3 points in 21 games is close to his rate across six seasons and his career high is 12 points.

The hands do not function at the required pace and there has never been any suggestion they would.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 226, and this is the job. He fights, he hits, and he is on a roster to be available for the nights that call for it.

21 penalty minutes in 21 games is a very high rate and it is the whole of the contribution.

The Intangibles

Undrafted, five organisations, and a career of being the extra forward.

The projection is 25 games and a minimum contract. On a club with genuine forward depth that is the correct role and the correct price.

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.

a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

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.

undrafteda strength· arrived without a pick attached
“Undrafted, five organisations, and a career of being the extra forward.”
nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“6-4 and 226, and this is the job. He fights, he hits, and he is on a roster to be available for the nights that call for it.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He fights, he hits, and he is on a roster to be available for the nights that call for it.”

The numbers underneath

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 21 games

Top speed: 21.9 mph; 33rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.76 a game
Distance: 1.36 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.3 mph; 89th 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with OTT · 162 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.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

34 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 59 feet. 24% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 35% from beyond forty.