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Left wing · #15

Sonny Milano

Columbus Blue Jackets Anaheim Ducks Washington Capitals(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Massapequa, USA
Draft
2014, round 1, #16 (CBJ)

Career · 2015–16 to 2025–26

Games
344
Goals
66
Points
145
TOI per game
12:38
xGF% (5v5)
52.2%
Goals above expected
+17.5
ShowAll teamsColumbus Blue JacketsAnaheim DucksWashington Capitals

Season by season

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

2015–16CBJ3011+113:2320.0%00.368.6%
2016–17CBJ4000−311:4120.0%00.751.5%
2017–18CBJ5514822−811:396920.3%47.251.3%
2018–19CBJ810108:19520.0%00.459.0%
2019–20CBJ4651318−512:38647.8%15.152.7%
2019–20ANA9235−215:301118.2%11.349.3%
2019–20All teams5571623−713:06759.3%26.451.9%
2020–21ANA6000014:4480.0%00.959.1%
2021–22ANA66142034−915:179414.9%1011.552.5%
2022–23WSH64112233−512:548013.8%510.550.1%
2023–24WSH4915823+412:305030.0%46.252.9%
2024–25WSH3000−37:1340.0%00.442.8%
2025–26WSH3144808:533411.8%04.055.0%
Total3 teams3446679145−3012:3842315.6%2548.552.2%

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)
00.20.40.60.811.250100150200250300
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Player card

Model-based

How 2015–16 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

81st 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

1st line
  • Goals /600.9179th pct
  • Assists /601.0972nd pct
  • ixG /600.6744th pct
  • Goals above expected+17.592nd pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)52.2%82nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.3%68th pct
  • Relative xGF%+2.384th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1864th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:3844th pct
  • PP time share26.9%62nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts70.9%93rd pct
  • Quality of competition23.9%48th 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. Andrei KuzmenkoVAN/CGY/LAK0.84
  2. Victor RaskCAR/MIN0.81
  3. Kaapo KakkoNYR0.80
  4. Tommy NovakNSH/PIT0.80
  5. Brad Boyes0.77
  6. Conor ShearyPIT/BUF/WSH/TBL/NYR0.74

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.

+17.5 goals above expected

020406050100150200250300Game

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 speed36.8 km/h81st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph6552nd pct
  • Hardest shot123.7 km/h12th pct
  • Distance skated71 km26th pct
  • Offensive-zone time42.2%52nd 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

36.8 km/h76th pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2024–25

3535.53636.53737.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.5 km/h, 33rd percentile (66 games)2022–23: 36.4 km/h, 67th percentile (64 games)2023–24: 36.4 km/h, 67th percentile (49 games)2024–25: 36.1 km/h, 47th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 36.8 km/h, 76th percentile (31 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

14.297th pct

▼ −2.5 since 2024–25

0510152021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 6.0, 59th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 11.8, 93rd percentile (64 games)2023–24: 14.4, 97th percentile (49 games)2024–25: 16.6, 98th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.2, 97th percentile (31 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.6 km51st pct

▼ −0.6 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.2 km, 29th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 16.1 km, 86th percentile (64 games)2023–24: 16.1 km, 82nd percentile (49 games)2024–25: 16.2 km, 84th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 15.6 km, 51st percentile (31 games)

Hardest shot

123.7 km/h3rd pct

▲ +14.8 km/h since 2024–25

10012014016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 132.7 km/h, 12th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 131.2 km/h, 8th percentile (64 games)2023–24: 122.9 km/h, 2nd percentile (49 games)2024–25: 108.9 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 123.7 km/h, 3rd percentile (31 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.2%56th pct

▲ +8.4 points since 2024–25

30%35%40%45%50%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 44.5%, 83rd percentile (66 games)2022–23: 41.0%, 39th percentile (64 games)2023–24: 39.6%, 24th percentile (49 games)2024–25: 33.8%, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 42.2%, 56th percentile (31 games)