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Defence · #2

Evan Bouchard

Age
26
Shoots
Right
Height
188 cm
Weight
89 kg
Born
Oakville, CAN
Draft
2018, round 1, #10 (EDM)

Career · 8 seasons

Games
434
Goals
82
Points
345
TOI per game
21:33
xGF% (5v5)
58.6%
Goals above expected
+10.9

Season by season

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

2018–19EDM7101−512:211010.0%10.551.2%
After a break: 2020–21EDM14235−214:50385.3%11.349.7%
2021–22EDM81123143+1019:482055.9%79.353.3%
2022–23EDM8283240+618:311565.1%138.758.1%
2023–24EDM81186482+3423:002208.2%3515.463.1%
2024–25EDM82145367+1423:282356.0%2616.358.9%
2025–26EDM82217495+2524:412219.5%3317.758.9%
2026–27EDM56612+1224:521735.3%21.980.1%
Total1 team43482263345+9421:331,1027.4%11871.158.6%

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)
00.511.5250100150200250300350400
15m20m25m50100150200250300350400Game

Player card

How 8 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

99th 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

1st pair
  • Goals /600.5398th pct
  • Assists /601.6999th pct
  • ixG /600.4698th pct
  • Shots /607.0799th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)58.6%100th pct
  • CF% (5v5)57.4%99th pct
  • Relative xGF%+7.699th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.4365th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game21:3386th pct
  • PP time share59.4%96th pct
  • PK time share18.4%37th pct
  • Quality of competition24.9%92nd 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.

+10.9 goals above expected

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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/h48th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph257th pct
  • Hardest shot143.2 km/h84th pct
  • Distance skated18 km83rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time53.8%100th 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

35.4 km/h49th pct

▼ −0.5 km/h since 2024–25

3434.53535.53636.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.0 km/h, 74th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 35.3 km/h, 53rd percentile (82 games)2023–24: 35.3 km/h, 53rd percentile (81 games)2024–25: 35.8 km/h, 66th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 35.4 km/h, 49th percentile (82 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.372nd pct

▲ +0.1 since 2024–25

0.511.522.5321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 2.1, 68th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 2.5, 80th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 2.4, 74th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 2.2, 71st percentile (82 games)2025–26: 2.3, 72nd percentile (82 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.6 km44th pct

▼ −0.3 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 13.5 km, 37th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 13.7 km, 65th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 13.8 km, 64th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 13.9 km, 61st percentile (82 games)2025–26: 13.6 km, 44th percentile (82 games)

Hardest shot

157.8 km/h86th pct

▼ −1.2 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015516016521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 158.3 km/h, 84th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 155.9 km/h, 78th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 161.7 km/h, 92nd percentile (81 games)2024–25: 159.1 km/h, 93rd percentile (82 games)2025–26: 157.8 km/h, 86th percentile (82 games)

Offensive-zone time

47.6%99th pct

▼ −1.5 points since 2024–25

35%40%45%50%55%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 44.6%, 87th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 47.6%, 99th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 50.1%, 99th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 49.1%, 99th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 47.6%, 99th percentile (82 games)