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Defence · #28

Zach Whitecloud

Vegas Golden Knights Calgary Flames(traded during the season)
Age
29
Shoots
Right
Height
188 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Brandon, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 9 seasons

Games
402
Goals
23
Points
88
TOI per game
18:08
xGF% (5v5)
51.8%
Goals above expected
+2.3
ShowAll teamsVegas Golden KnightsCalgary Flames

Season by season

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

2017–18VGK1000+316:420–00.048.9%
After a break: 2019–20VGK16011+314:1990.0%00.467.2%
2020–21VGK5121012+917:49543.7%03.355.6%
2021–22VGK5981119+2118:48948.5%04.353.8%
2022–23VGK595712+1017:07647.8%03.447.5%
2023–24VGK6121214−317:35513.9%02.552.4%
2024–25VGK744913+717:31725.6%03.154.3%
2025–26VGK47257−818:46336.1%01.849.8%
2025–26CGY3101010+222:40340.0%01.945.1%
2025–26All teams7821517−620:19673.0%03.647.6%
2026–27CGY3000−521:0520.0%00.143.1%
Total2 teams402236588+3918:084135.6%020.751.8%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200250300350400
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Player card

Model-based

How 9 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd pair

59th 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 /600.1953rd pct
  • Assists /600.5432nd pct
  • ixG /600.1744th pct
  • Shots /603.4030th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)51.8%79th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.8%61st pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.539th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2786th pct

Usage

2nd pair
  • TOI per game18:0859th pct
  • PP time share1.4%24th pct
  • PK time share40.7%75th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%44th 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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Brayden McNabbVGK0.94
  2. Jamie OleksiakSEA/VAN0.89
  3. Jonas SiegenthalerWSH/NJD0.84
  4. Dan Girardi0.83
  5. Deryk EngellandVGK0.81
  6. Karl Alzner0.81

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.

+2.3 goals above expected

051015202550100150200250300350400Game

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 speed32.9 km/h49th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph125th pct
  • Hardest shot127.3 km/h38th pct
  • Distance skated14 km62nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.4%33rd 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

34.3 km/h21st pct

▼ −0.4 km/h since 2024–25

333435363721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.4 km/h, 87th percentile (59 games)2022–23: 34.8 km/h, 37th percentile (59 games)2023–24: 33.8 km/h, 9th percentile (61 games)2024–25: 34.7 km/h, 35th percentile (74 games)2025–26: 34.3 km/h, 21st percentile (78 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.340th pct

▼ −0.4 since 2024–25

0.511.522.5321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 1.1, 38th percentile (59 games)2022–23: 1.2, 43rd percentile (59 games)2023–24: 1.3, 38th percentile (61 games)2024–25: 1.7, 56th percentile (74 games)2025–26: 1.3, 40th percentile (78 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.3 km34th pct

▼ −0.1 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 13.5 km, 42nd percentile (59 games)2022–23: 13.2 km, 30th percentile (59 games)2023–24: 13.5 km, 44th percentile (61 games)2024–25: 13.4 km, 30th percentile (74 games)2025–26: 13.3 km, 34th percentile (78 games)

Hardest shot

151.4 km/h64th pct

▼ −1.6 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015516021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 149.9 km/h, 42nd percentile (59 games)2022–23: 147.7 km/h, 36th percentile (59 games)2023–24: 149.0 km/h, 46th percentile (61 games)2024–25: 152.9 km/h, 72nd percentile (74 games)2025–26: 151.4 km/h, 64th percentile (78 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.7%22nd pct

▼ −2.2 points since 2024–25

30%40%50%60%70%80%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 42.5%, 63rd percentile (59 games)2022–23: 40.8%, 36th percentile (59 games)2023–24: 70.7%, 100th percentile (61 games)2024–25: 41.9%, 51st percentile (74 games)2025–26: 39.7%, 22nd percentile (78 games)