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Centre · #14

Alexander Kerfoot

Colorado Avalanche Toronto Maple Leafs Arizona Coyotes Utah Mammoth Nashville Predators(traded during the season)
Age
32
Shoots
Left
Height
180 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Vancouver, CAN
Draft
2012, round 5, #150 (NJD)

Career · 2017–18 to 2026–27

Games
642
Goals
105
Points
306
TOI per game
14:56
xGF% (5v5)
51.3%
Goals above expected
−1.0

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2017–18COL79192443−713:278123.5%178.846.0%
2018–19COL78152742−914:5311612.9%1613.852.6%
2019–20TOR6591928−214:468810.2%111.950.9%
2020–21TOR5681523+214:276811.8%29.351.0%
2021–22TOR82133851+1915:1311711.1%113.851.8%
2022–23TOR82102232+814:371337.5%316.054.3%
2023–24ARI82133245−1517:2610312.6%1216.046.8%
2024–25UTA81111728−515:1510110.9%112.854.9%
2025–26UTA347613012:472825.0%03.453.5%
2026–27NSH3011−316:1130.0%10.161.4%
Total5 teams642105201306−1214:5683812.5%54106.051.3%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
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Player card

Model-based

How 2017–18 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

69th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd line
  • Goals /600.6648th pct
  • Assists /601.2680th pct
  • ixG /600.6639th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.055th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)51.3%75th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.6%69th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.751st pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1458th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game14:5669th pct
  • PP time share23.4%56th pct
  • Offensive zone starts48.6%35th pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%64th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Ryan McLeodEDM/BUF0.96
  2. Noah CatesPHI0.82
  3. Yanni GourdeTBL/SEA0.81
  4. Phillip DanaultMTL/LAK0.81
  5. Sam SteelANA/MIN/DAL0.77
  6. Andrew CoppWPG/DET0.77

Faceoffs

How often Kerfoot wins the draw over 2017–18 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1749+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

47.9%

1723–1875 · #145 of 204 regulars, 29th percentile

Against an average centre

47.9%

Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.

Wins above average

−76

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

6.5

3,598 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

47%689 · +0.452%882 · +2.043%281 · +0.351%162 · +1.043%87 · +0.652%170 · +1.442%114 · +0.950%835 · +1.240%378 · +2.3Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone49.5% 576–587
  • Neutral zone47.4% 579–643
  • Defensive zone46.8% 568–645

By strength

  • Even strength48.9% 1431–1495
  • Power play48.5% 133–141
  • Shorthanded40.1% 159–238

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +10 after a win, −15 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2017–1849242.1%42.3%
2018–1948956.0%56.1%
2019–2040746.9%46.4%
2020–2130440.8%40.9%
2021–2217842.7%42.8%
2022–2314544.8%45.7%
2023–2486247.8%48.0%
2024–2549452.4%52.2%
2025–2622551.1%50.5%
2026–2720.0%2.3%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−1.0 goals above expected

020406080100120100200300400500600Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−500+50+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed35.1 km/h77th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph986th pct
  • Hardest shot83.2 km/h7th pct
  • Distance skated12 km56th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.2%47th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

36.0 km/h47th pct

▼ −1.2 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 37.2 km/h, 87th percentile (82 games)2022–23: 37.0 km/h, 84th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 35.9 km/h, 46th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 37.2 km/h, 87th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 36.0 km/h, 47th percentile (34 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.956th pct

▼ −0.5 since 2024–25

2468101221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 10.3, 88th percentile (82 games)2022–23: 10.9, 90th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 5.1, 50th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 6.4, 61st percentile (81 games)2025–26: 5.9, 56th percentile (34 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km61st pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.7 km, 58th percentile (82 games)2022–23: 15.8 km, 72nd percentile (82 games)2023–24: 14.8 km, 15th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 15.5 km, 40th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 15.7 km, 61st percentile (34 games)

Hardest shot

123.6 km/h2nd pct

▼ −7.3 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 130.4 km/h, 9th percentile (82 games)2022–23: 135.1 km/h, 16th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 124.9 km/h, 3rd percentile (82 games)2024–25: 131.0 km/h, 13th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 123.6 km/h, 2nd percentile (34 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.7%48th pct

▲ +2.8 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 41.0%, 39th percentile (82 games)2022–23: 41.6%, 47th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 39.3%, 20th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 38.8%, 13th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 41.7%, 48th percentile (34 games)