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Right wing · #16

Justin Brazeau

Boston Bruins Minnesota Wild Pittsburgh Penguins(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Right
Height
201 cm
Weight
107 kg
Born
New Liskeard, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2023–24 to 2025–26

Games
76
Goals
15
Points
27
TOI per game
12:30
xGF% (5v5)
51.8%
Goals above expected
+0.7
ShowAll teamsBoston BruinsMinnesota WildPittsburgh Penguins

Season by season

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

2023–24BOS19527+411:073116.1%23.860.1%
2024–25BOS57101020−612:587812.8%510.549.7%
2024–25MIN19112−38:33119.1%01.237.8%
2024–25All teams76111122−911:528912.4%511.747.7%
2025–26PIT64171734+512:3910416.3%515.952.0%
Total3 teams159333063012:0622414.7%1231.450.9%

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)
00.20.40.60.810203040506070
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Player card

Model-based

How 2023–24 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

68th 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 /601.0380th pct
  • Assists /600.9452nd pct
  • ixG /600.9880th pct
  • Goals above expected+1.671st pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)50.9%67th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.3%42nd pct
  • Relative xGF%0.056th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.2572nd pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:0632nd pct
  • PP time share22.3%50th pct
  • Offensive zone starts59.6%61st pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%42nd 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. Linus KarlssonVAN0.80
  2. Ethen Frank0.80
  3. Egor ChinakhovCBJ/PIT0.76
  4. Ivan MiroshnichenkoWSH0.75
  5. Evgenii DadonovDAL0.74
  6. Philip TomasinoPIT0.69

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.

+0.7 goals above expected

05101510203040506070Game

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

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50

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 mph3737th pct
  • Hardest shot137.9 km/h55th pct
  • Distance skated205 km49th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.9%34th 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

▲ +0.3 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373823–2424–2525–262023–24: 34.1 km/h, 4th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 34.3 km/h, 6th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 34.5 km/h, 8th percentile (64 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.717th pct

▲ +0.3 since 2024–25

024681023–2424–2525–262023–24: 3.4, 26th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 2.4, 12th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 2.7, 17th percentile (64 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.2 km28th pct

▲ +0.3 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.523–2424–2525–262023–24: 15.2 km, 29th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 14.8 km, 10th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 15.2 km, 28th percentile (64 games)

Hardest shot

137.9 km/h45th pct

▲ +9.3 km/h since 2024–25

12513013514014515023–2424–2525–262023–24: 129.8 km/h, 8th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 128.6 km/h, 7th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 137.9 km/h, 45th percentile (64 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.9%37th pct

▼ −2.2 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%23–2424–2525–262023–24: 43.0%, 65th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 43.1%, 66th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 40.9%, 37th percentile (64 games)