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Defence · #67

Keaton Middleton

Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
198 cm
Weight
109 kg
Born
Edmonton, CAN
Draft
2016, round 4, #101 (TOR)

Career · 3 seasons

Games
47
Goals
0
Points
3
TOI per game
11:18
xGF% (5v5)
50.6%
Goals above expected
−1.5

Season by season

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

2020–21COL3000−19:1820.0%00.136.2%
After a break: 2024–25COL41022011:29440.0%01.554.0%
2025–26COL3011−110:450–00.032.6%
Total1 team47033−211:18460.0%01.550.6%

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)
00.050.10.150.21015202530354045
9m10m11m12m13m1015202530354045Game

Player card

How 3 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

36th 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

3rd pair
  • Goals /600.004th pct
  • Assists /600.3410th pct
  • ixG /600.1750th pct
  • Shots /605.2085th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)50.6%61st pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.7%68th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.810th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.0995th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game11:182nd pct
  • PP time share0.7%10th pct
  • PK time share13.7%26th pct
  • Quality of competition22.5%0th 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.

−1.5 goals above expected

00.511.510203040Game

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

−10−50+5+10+15+20+25

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 speed30.3 km/h1st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot125.2 km/h11th pct
  • Distance skated7 km7th pct
  • Offensive-zone time36.4%0th 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

30.3 km/h0th pct

▼ −4.0 km/h since 2024–25

28303234363824–2525–262024–25: 34.3 km/h, 23rd percentile (41 games)2025–26: 30.3 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.00th pct

▼ −0.9 since 2024–25

012324–2525–262024–25: 0.9, 23rd percentile (41 games)2025–26: 0.0, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

13.0 km12th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.524–2525–262024–25: 13.6 km, 44th percentile (41 games)2025–26: 13.0 km, 12th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

125.2 km/h0th pct

▼ −22.5 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016024–2525–262024–25: 147.7 km/h, 49th percentile (41 games)2025–26: 125.2 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

36.4%0th pct

▼ −6.8 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%24–2525–262024–25: 43.2%, 75th percentile (41 games)2025–26: 36.4%, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)