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Centre · #25

Kevin Rooney

New Jersey Devils New York Rangers Calgary Flames Utah Mammoth(traded during the season)
Age
33
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Canton, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2016–17 to 2025–26

Games
331
Goals
33
Points
61
TOI per game
11:37
xGF% (5v5)
43.8%
Goals above expected
−2.1
ShowAll teamsNew Jersey DevilsNew York RangersCalgary FlamesUtah Mammoth

Season by season

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

2016–17NJD4000−310:1120.0%00.130.2%
2017–18NJD1000011:4630.0%00.366.6%
2018–19NJD416410−412:373915.4%05.347.6%
2019–20NJD49459+811:44596.8%06.644.8%
2020–21NYR548614012:216212.9%06.646.7%
2021–22NYR616612−113:51718.5%06.938.2%
2022–23CGY17011−28:52140.0%01.746.7%
2023–24CGY33314−411:132711.1%02.445.0%
2024–25CGY705510−69:25549.3%05.142.4%
2025–26UTA1101+19:441100.0%00.253.3%
Total4 teams331332861−1111:373329.9%035.143.8%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200250300
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Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

13th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.5130th pct
  • Assists /600.449th pct
  • ixG /600.5518th pct
  • Goals above expected−2.145th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)43.8%14th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.6%7th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.915th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.5092nd pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:3730th pct
  • PP time share2.0%16th pct
  • Offensive zone starts28.9%5th pct
  • Quality of competition23.1%13th 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. Vernon Fiddler0.93
  2. Tyson Kozak0.93
  3. Jacob Quillan0.93
  4. Beck MalenstynWSH/BUF0.92
  5. Luke GlendeningDET/DAL/TBL0.92
  6. Tyler MotteVAN/TBL/DET0.92

Faceoffs

How often Rooney wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1937+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

46.2%

1089–1268 · #170 of 210 regulars, 19th percentile

Against an average centre

46.3%

Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.

Wins above average

−87

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

Draws per game

7.3

2,357 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

50%456 · +0.348%320 · +2.339%194 · +1.054%67 · −0.346%98 · +0.352%88 · +0.633%96 · 0.050%514 · +1.741%524 · +2.6Attacking 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 zone44.2% 227–287
  • Neutral zone48.3% 389–416
  • Defensive zone45.6% 473–565

By strength

  • Even strength46.7% 953–1089
  • Power play41.7% 20–28
  • Shorthanded43.4% 116–151

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +7 after a win, −22 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.4 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–172737.0%34.8%
2017–18333.3%38.6%
2018–1937949.3%48.7%
2019–2037247.0%47.1%
2020–2143845.0%45.6%
2021–2240444.8%45.1%
2022–2310541.9%42.4%
2023–2420846.6%45.9%
2024–2541347.2%47.7%
2025–26825.0%26.1%

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.

−2.1 goals above expected

01020304050100150200250300Game

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 speed33.0 km/h4th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph12nd pct
  • Hardest shot110.5 km/h4th pct
  • Distance skated3 km1st pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.3%3rd 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

33.0 km/h0th pct

▼ −2.5 km/h since 2024–25

3234363821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.7 km/h, 39th percentile (61 games)2022–23: 35.5 km/h, 33rd percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 35.2 km/h, 23rd percentile (33 games)2024–25: 35.6 km/h, 29th percentile (70 games)2025–26: 33.0 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.258th pct

▼ −2.3 since 2024–25

246810121421–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 7.0, 68th percentile (61 games)2022–23: 7.6, 75th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 11.3, 91st percentile (33 games)2024–25: 8.5, 78th percentile (70 games)2025–26: 6.2, 58th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

17.3 km100th pct

▲ +0.1 km since 2024–25

141516171821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.5 km, 93rd percentile (61 games)2022–23: 17.3 km, 100th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 16.9 km, 97th percentile (33 games)2024–25: 17.2 km, 99th percentile (70 games)2025–26: 17.3 km, 100th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

110.5 km/h0th pct

▼ −17.4 km/h since 2024–25

10012014016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 143.2 km/h, 47th percentile (61 games)2022–23: 122.2 km/h, 0th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 126.0 km/h, 5th percentile (33 games)2024–25: 127.9 km/h, 5th percentile (70 games)2025–26: 110.5 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

37.3%4th pct

▼ −1.4 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 38.4%, 11th percentile (61 games)2022–23: 41.1%, 41st percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 35.7%, 2nd percentile (33 games)2024–25: 38.7%, 12th percentile (70 games)2025–26: 37.3%, 4th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)