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Left wing · #38

Brandon Hagel

Chicago Blackhawks Tampa Bay Lightning(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Saskatoon, CAN
Draft
2016, round 6, #159 (BUF)

Career · 2019–20 to 2026–27

Games
450
Goals
162
Points
375
TOI per game
18:24
xGF% (5v5)
54.6%
Goals above expected
+7.9

Season by season

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

2019–20CHI1000011:4840.0%00.367.6%
2020–21CHI5291524−713:59919.9%310.546.7%
2021–22CHI55211637−1417:289422.3%612.246.7%
2021–22TBL22437−413:353112.9%05.054.3%
2021–22All teams77251944−1816:2112520.0%617.249.1%
2022–23TBL81303464+2318:3917816.9%1327.153.9%
2023–24TBL82264975+119:1518414.1%726.954.9%
2024–25TBL82355590+3320:4522815.4%1133.157.3%
2025–26TBL71363874+3419:4621416.8%1235.559.3%
2026–27TBL4134+222:13205.0%03.575.6%
Total2 teams450162213375+6818:241,04415.5%52154.154.6%

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)
00.511.5100200300400
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Player card

How 2019–20 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 line

97th 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 /601.1792nd pct
  • Assists /601.5491st pct
  • ixG /601.1292nd pct
  • Goals above expected+7.985th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)54.6%92nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)53.5%90th pct
  • Relative xGF%+5.897th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3380th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game18:2492nd pct
  • PP time share36.8%72nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts50.9%41st pct
  • Quality of competition25.3%93rd 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).

Faceoffs

How often Hagel wins the draw over 2019–20 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1344+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

37.3%

116–195 · below the 1344 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

37.8%

Opponents won 50.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.5% against them.

Wins above average

−38

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

Draws per game

1.7

311 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

44%41 · +1.243%92 · +1.226%69 · +3.655%11 · −8.618%11 · +2.144%9 · −3.117%6 · 0.045%42 · +5.227%30 · −1.0Attacking 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 zone36.0% 58–103
  • Neutral zone39.7% 31–47
  • Defensive zone37.5% 27–45

By strength

  • Even strength37.2% 92–155
  • Power play48.1% 13–14
  • Shorthanded29.7% 11–26

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +22 after a win, −14 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.6 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2020–212339.1%38.7%
2021–225742.1%42.2%
2022–238128.4%28.7%
2023–246141.0%41.6%
2024–252334.8%35.9%
2025–266341.3%42.3%
2026–27333.3%36.2%

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.

+7.9 goals above expected

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

−80−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+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 speed34.5 km/h58th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph669th pct
  • Hardest shot130.1 km/h67th pct
  • Distance skated15 km70th pct
  • Offensive-zone time45.5%79th 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

37.4 km/h88th pct

▲ +0.0 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.4 km/h, 64th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 36.4 km/h, 65th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 36.9 km/h, 83rd percentile (82 games)2024–25: 37.3 km/h, 90th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 37.4 km/h, 88th percentile (71 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

7.167th pct

▲ +0.4 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 9.1, 82nd percentile (77 games)2022–23: 7.0, 70th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 6.0, 60th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 6.7, 64th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 7.1, 67th percentile (71 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.3 km5th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2024–25

131415161721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.2 km, 29th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 14.5 km, 11th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 14.9 km, 18th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 14.1 km, 2nd percentile (82 games)2025–26: 14.3 km, 5th percentile (71 games)

Hardest shot

140.9 km/h59th pct

▲ +0.1 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 146.8 km/h, 63rd percentile (77 games)2022–23: 135.3 km/h, 17th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 143.2 km/h, 55th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 140.9 km/h, 55th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 140.9 km/h, 59th percentile (71 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.9%63rd pct

▲ +0.2 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 42.9%, 66th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 42.8%, 60th percentile (81 games)2023–24: 41.3%, 44th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 42.7%, 61st percentile (82 games)2025–26: 42.9%, 63rd percentile (71 games)