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Centre · #23

Justin Kirkland

Anaheim Ducks Arizona Coyotes Calgary Flames(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Winnipeg, CAN
Draft
2014, round 3, #62 (NSH)

Career · 2022–23 to 2025–26

Games
2
Goals
0
Points
0
TOI per game
7:14
xGF% (5v5)
61.5%
Goals above expected
−0.1
ShowAll teamsAnaheim DucksArizona CoyotesCalgary Flames

Season by season

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

2022–23ANA7000−37:1350.0%00.449.8%
2023–24ARI200007:1410.0%00.161.5%
2024–25CGY21268+69:42922.2%00.942.4%
2025–26CGY20112+19:49119.1%01.548.7%
Total3 teams503710+49:182611.5%02.946.3%

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)
Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2022–23 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

17th 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

4th line
  • Goals /600.3913th pct
  • Assists /600.9049th pct
  • ixG /600.381st pct
  • Goals above expected+0.161st pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.3%28th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.3%25th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.259th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0038th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:185th pct
  • PP time share0.6%4th pct
  • Offensive zone starts25.4%5th pct
  • Quality of competition23.4%17th 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. Curtis Lazar0.92
  2. Joona Koppanen0.91
  3. Tyson Kozak0.91
  4. Ty DellandreaDAL0.90
  5. Sam LaffertyBUF0.89
  6. Steven LorentzSJS/TOR0.89

Faceoffs

How often Kirkland wins the draw over 2022–23 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 820+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

47.6%

127–140 · below the 820 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

48.4%

Opponents won 50.8% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.2% against them.

Wins above average

−4

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

Draws per game

6.2

267 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

35%43 · +1.153%38 · +1.837%19 · −0.354%13 · +0.533%9 · +4.270%10 · +1.136%11 · +3.558%60 · +0.945%64 · −0.2Attacking 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 zone47.4% 27–30
  • Neutral zone41.9% 36–50
  • Defensive zone51.6% 64–60

By strength

  • Even strength49.1% 113–117
  • Power play0.0% 0–1
  • Shorthanded38.9% 14–22

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +3 after a win, −26 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.9 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2022–23366.7%67.2%
2023–241266.7%65.4%
2024–2512642.9%42.9%
2025–2612650.0%51.9%

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.

−0.1 goals above expected

00.020.040.060.0811.21.41.61.82Game

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

−40−200+20+40+60

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 speed34.5 km/h19th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1118th pct
  • Hardest shot140.1 km/h63rd pct
  • Distance skated52 km22nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.0%13th 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

34.5 km/h8th pct

▼ −0.6 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373822–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 35.9 km/h, 46th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 33.8 km/h, 2nd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 35.1 km/h, 20th percentile (21 games)2025–26: 34.5 km/h, 8th percentile (20 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.426th pct

▼ −1.9 since 2024–25

05101522–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 7.1, 72nd percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 12.5, 93rd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 5.3, 51st percentile (21 games)2025–26: 3.4, 26th percentile (20 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.0 km78th pct

▲ +0.1 km since 2024–25

1214161822–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 13.1 km, 0th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 16.8 km, 96th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.8 km, 64th percentile (21 games)2025–26: 16.0 km, 78th percentile (20 games)

Hardest shot

140.1 km/h55th pct

▲ +7.6 km/h since 2024–25

608010012014016022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 120.0 km/h, 0th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 86.7 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 132.5 km/h, 17th percentile (21 games)2025–26: 140.1 km/h, 55th percentile (20 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.0%14th pct

▲ +2.0 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 35.6%, 2nd percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 39.3%, 20th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 37.1%, 3rd percentile (21 games)2025–26: 39.0%, 14th percentile (20 games)