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Defence · #6

Kaedan Korczak

Vegas Golden Knights Pittsburgh Penguins(traded during the season)
Age
25
Shoots
Right
Height
191 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Yorkton, CAN
Draft
2019, round 2, #41 (VGK)

Career · 2021–22 to 2026–27

Games
158
Goals
4
Points
40
TOI per game
15:57
xGF% (5v5)
56.4%
Goals above expected
−2.5
ShowAll teamsVegas Golden KnightsPittsburgh Penguins

Season by season

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

2021–22VGK1000+116:370–00.068.2%
2022–23VGK10022−317:34160.0%00.656.9%
2023–24VGK26189+1216:30323.1%11.254.7%
2024–25VGK4001010+1515:04340.0%01.156.2%
2025–26VGK7831316+615:58605.0%03.456.4%
2026–27PIT3033−116:3140.0%00.265.3%
Total2 teams15843640+3015:571462.7%16.556.4%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.620406080100120140
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Player card

Model-based

How 2021–22 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 pair

76th 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 /600.1016th pct
  • Assists /600.8674th pct
  • ixG /600.1535th pct
  • Shots /603.4837th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)56.4%97th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.7%70th pct
  • Relative xGF%+4.194th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)1.9899th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game15:5734th pct
  • PP time share2.1%40th pct
  • PK time share9.7%20th pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%47th 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. Jakub Zboril0.85
  2. Emil AndraePHI0.83
  3. Jack Ahcan0.76
  4. Max Crozier0.75
  5. Josh MahuraFLA/SEA0.72
  6. Jacob MoverareLAK0.70

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.

−2.5 goals above expected

024620406080100120140Game

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 speed34.5 km/h85th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph257th pct
  • Hardest shot124.6 km/h30th pct
  • Distance skated12 km38th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.9%49th 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

35.1 km/h42nd pct

▼ −0.4 km/h since 2024–25

303234363821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 31.6 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 35.2 km/h, 51st percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 35.0 km/h, 40th percentile (26 games)2024–25: 35.5 km/h, 52nd percentile (40 games)2025–26: 35.1 km/h, 42nd percentile (78 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.546th pct

▼ −1.0 since 2024–25

012321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 0.0, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 1.4, 48th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 2.1, 68th percentile (26 games)2024–25: 2.6, 81st percentile (40 games)2025–26: 1.5, 46th percentile (78 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.0 km75th pct

▲ +0.1 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 12.8 km, 7th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 13.8 km, 70th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 14.2 km, 86th percentile (26 games)2024–25: 13.9 km, 65th percentile (40 games)2025–26: 14.0 km, 75th percentile (78 games)

Hardest shot

144.6 km/h31st pct

▲ +11.3 km/h since 2024–25

10012014016018021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 111.1 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 143.7 km/h, 20th percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 143.4 km/h, 23rd percentile (26 games)2024–25: 133.3 km/h, 4th percentile (40 games)2025–26: 144.6 km/h, 31st percentile (78 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.7%66th pct

▲ +2.3 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 41.6%, 51st percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 42.5%, 63rd percentile (10 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 41.3%, 44th percentile (26 games)2024–25: 40.4%, 30th percentile (40 games)2025–26: 42.7%, 66th percentile (78 games)