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Centre · #43

Liam Foudy

Columbus Blue Jackets Nashville Predators New York Islanders(traded during the season)
Age
26
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
85 kg
Born
Scarborough, CAN
Draft
2018, round 1, #18 (CBJ)

Career · 2019–20 to 2025–26

Games
105
Goals
7
Points
22
TOI per game
11:55
xGF% (5v5)
45.1%
Goals above expected
−6.9
ShowAll teamsColumbus Blue JacketsNashville PredatorsNew York Islanders

Season by season

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

2019–20CBJ2011+114:1330.0%00.264.9%
2020–21CBJ24044012:36400.0%03.947.8%
2021–22CBJ1000−111:5110.0%00.125.3%
2022–23CBJ627714−2612:086710.4%08.342.3%
2023–24CBJ100007:560–00.129.4%
2023–24NSH12033−210:0970.0%01.257.2%
2023–24All teams13033−29:5970.0%01.355.8%
2024–25NYI2000−17:2710.0%00.125.7%
2025–26NYI1000011:1710.0%00.112.5%
Total3 teams10571522−2911:551205.8%013.945.1%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.620406080100
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Player card

Model-based

How 2019–20 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

23rd 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.3411th pct
  • Assists /600.7231st pct
  • ixG /600.6738th pct
  • Goals above expected−6.921st pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)45.1%20th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.7%12th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.653rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.6295th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:5533rd pct
  • PP time share3.2%21st pct
  • Offensive zone starts44.4%26th pct
  • Quality of competition23.4%24th 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. Matthew HighmoreCHI0.94
  2. Ryan Winterton0.93
  3. Marcus Sorensen0.91
  4. Tobias Rieder0.89
  5. Adam Beckman0.87
  6. Landon Slaggert0.84

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.

−6.9 goals above expected

05101520406080100Game

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 speed34.0 km/h11th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph24th pct
  • Hardest shot125.4 km/h15th pct
  • Distance skated3 km2nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.6%4th 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

34.0 km/h4th pct

▼ −0.7 km/h since 2024–25

303234363821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 32.3 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 37.4 km/h, 91st percentile (62 games)2023–24: 35.8 km/h, 45th percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 34.6 km/h, 8th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 34.0 km/h, 4th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

10.689th pct

▼ −5.5 since 2024–25

0510152021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 5.1, 48th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 11.2, 91st percentile (62 games)2023–24: 13.9, 96th percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 16.1, 98th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 10.6, 89th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km62nd pct

▼ −0.2 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.2 km, 85th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 15.0 km, 26th percentile (62 games)2023–24: 15.7 km, 58th percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.9 km, 65th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 15.7 km, 62nd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

125.4 km/h4th pct

▲ +79.0 km/h since 2024–25

05010015020021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 0.0 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 134.4 km/h, 14th percentile (62 games)2023–24: 128.0 km/h, 6th percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 46.4 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 125.4 km/h, 4th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

37.6%5th pct

▼ −3.5 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 38.4%, 11th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 38.8%, 14th percentile (62 games)2023–24: 40.4%, 33rd percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 41.0%, 37th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 37.6%, 5th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)