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Defence · #7

Devon Toews

New York Islanders Colorado Avalanche(traded during the season)
Age
32
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
87 kg
Born
Abbotsford, CAN
Draft
2014, round 4, #108 (NYI)

Career · 2018–19 to 2026–27

Games
427
Goals
54
Points
258
TOI per game
24:14
xGF% (5v5)
57.4%
Goals above expected
+5.7

Season by season

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

2018–19NYI4851318+717:54816.2%44.558.1%
2019–20NYI6862228+120:311224.9%76.152.3%
2020–21COL5392231+2924:461217.4%66.061.7%
2021–22COL66134457+5225:221588.2%128.357.3%
2022–23COL8074350+3925:061654.2%78.556.2%
2023–24COL82123850+2823:261597.5%59.256.1%
2024–25COL76103444+3024:351387.2%38.856.0%
2025–26COL6832124+3722:221152.6%17.459.3%
2026–27COL2022+219:300–20.059.7%
Total2 teams54365239304+22523:121,0596.1%4758.956.9%

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)
00.511.550100150200250300350400
20m22m24m26m28m50100150200250300350400Game

Player card

How 2018–19 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

100th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

1st pair
  • Goals /600.3184th pct
  • Assists /601.1492nd pct
  • ixG /600.2885th pct
  • Shots /605.0482nd pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)56.9%99th pct
  • CF% (5v5)55.4%98th pct
  • Relative xGF%+5.498th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2192nd pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game23:1294th pct
  • PP time share33.6%83rd pct
  • PK time share46.1%84th pct
  • Quality of competition25.0%93rd pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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).

Finishing

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.

+5.7 goals above expected

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

−20−100+10+20+30+40

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 speed31.4 km/h12th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot103.1 km/h2nd pct
  • Distance skated9 km22nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.0%50th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

35.7 km/h61st pct

▼ −0.7 km/h since 2024–25

323436384021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 38.6 km/h, 99th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 36.4 km/h, 82nd percentile (80 games)2023–24: 36.7 km/h, 86th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 36.4 km/h, 80th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 35.7 km/h, 61st percentile (68 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.268th pct

▲ +0.9 since 2024–25

0123421–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 3.1, 87th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 3.6, 94th percentile (80 games)2023–24: 2.9, 85th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 1.2, 38th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 2.2, 68th percentile (68 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.7 km53rd pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 13.4 km, 34th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 13.3 km, 36th percentile (80 games)2023–24: 13.5 km, 46th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 13.6 km, 43rd percentile (76 games)2025–26: 13.7 km, 53rd percentile (68 games)

Hardest shot

147.4 km/h43rd pct

▼ −4.2 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015516021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 154.6 km/h, 68th percentile (66 games)2022–23: 151.4 km/h, 53rd percentile (80 games)2023–24: 156.8 km/h, 79th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 151.5 km/h, 67th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 147.4 km/h, 43rd percentile (68 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.5%64th pct

▼ −0.3 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 43.1%, 72nd percentile (66 games)2022–23: 42.0%, 56th percentile (80 games)2023–24: 41.5%, 47th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 42.9%, 69th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 42.5%, 64th percentile (68 games)