Anatomy of a player card

Average career stats over an 82-game season: G, A, P, +/− and PIM are per-82 rates (so players with different career lengths compare directly); the TOI entries are averages per game (total, power play, short-handed). The header’s subtitle line ends with the player’s archetype — a k-means career style cluster (icon + name; 8 forward types, 6 defense types, era-adjusted features; the full icon glossary is on the Reference page). Skaters need 150 career GP to be typed.

One column per season ('11 = 2010-11) with the team(s) played for under each header. The three small rows above the grid place each season's Overall rate in context: Team rank among the skaters on the team he finished the season with, League rank among every skater with a rated season (10+ GP), and Age rank among skaters the same age (as of Oct 1 of the season's start year). In the CAREER column the same three rows rank his career rate within the deck's current roster, all active skaters (played 2025-26, 40+ career GP), and active skaters his age. Every box below them is the player's net goals added per 82 games vs a league-average player, in calibrated model units — blue adds goals, red costs them, on fixed scales (−41 → +41 for the Overall row, a tighter −12.3 → +12.3 for the component rows, so seasons and players compare directly); gray text under a row is TOI per game in that situation (GP for the Overall row) — situation here means skater advantage: 6v5 with the goalie pulled counts as PP time and defending it counts as PK time, so these splits run a little higher than the official PP/SH TOI in the header row (the totals agree); a plain gray box = fewer than 10 GP that season. The CAREER column is the games-played-weighted career rate with small samples regressed toward the league mean (each component carries an empirical-Bayes prior, so a hot 20-game stint doesn't read as a career skill; the per-season boxes stay raw). The Overall row and the CAREER column are set in bold with outlined boxes:

Who the player skated with and against, season by season. Competition is the shared-TOI-weighted average Overall net goals/82 of the opposing skaters he faced; Teammates the same for his own linemates (goalies excluded on both sides; skaters too small a sample to rate that season count as league-average). Competition spreads far less than teammate quality, so the rows use different color scales (±1.5 and ±5; stated here rather than on the card). Under the Teammates row, each season lists his four most common teammates with the share of his ice time they were on for; the career column aggregates across seasons.

Puck-and-player tracking from NHL EDGE, which only exists from 2021-22 on (long careers start blank): hardest shot and top skating speed in mph, and 20+ mph speed bursts per game. Boxes are colored by where the number ranks within that season's tracked cohort (skaters with ≥50 shots on goal); the career column is the career best (bursts: the career rate).

The career's shape in one line: a trailing 40-game moving average of the Overall row, in the same net-goals-per-82 units. The x-axis is career games and is shared with the Career net goals line below, so the line starts blank until the 40th game. The dot marks the career peak, the number at the right end is the current value, and faint vertical lines are season boundaries. Even elite careers dip below zero here — 40 games is a small sample. Goalie cards draw the same line for GSAx/82 over the last 40 appearances.

The running career total of the same per-game net goals the form line averages: how much value the career has banked versus a league-average player, in goals. A flat stretch means league-average play, a rising slope means value being added; the red dot marks the career high-water mark when the current total has slipped below it. Goalie cards accumulate GSAx instead.

Left: the career shot diet by type — each bar is the share of his shots on goal of that type, and the box prices it as net goals per 82 (goals above xG on those shots; types with fewer than 100 career shots stay gray). Right: where the shots come from — each zone of the offensive half is colored by his share of shots from that spot vs the league average for his position (blue = more than a typical F or D, red = less, ±0.35 percentage points per zone). Goalie cards show a save map instead: each zone colored by save percentage above or below what that zone's shots predict.

Contract efficiency: cap hit, share of the 2026-27 team cap, and career net goals added per 82 games per $M of cap hit — the grid's CAREER Overall box divided by the cap hit, so the tile and the grid always agree (goalies: GSAx/82 per $M). Cards for unsigned free agents (the UFA deck) have no contract, so this block is absent there.

Goalie cards read the same way with goalie panels: the header row shows career shot-quality totals — shots faced, GA, xGA, GSAx (goals saved above expected), Sv%, xSv% and Reb/100 (rebounds yielded per 100 shots faced; lower is better). The season grid is GSAx per 82 games with a Reb/100 row, then the 40-appearance form line, the cumulative career GSAx line, and the save map described above.