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Defence · #4

Samuel Bolduc

Age
25
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
100 kg
Born
Laval, CAN
Draft
2019, round 2, #57 (NYI)

Career · 2022–23 to 2024–25

Games
52
Goals
4
Points
8
TOI per game
13:25
xGF% (5v5)
48.0%
Goals above expected
+2.5

Season by season

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

2022–23NYI17213+514:242010.0%00.647.9%
2023–24NYI34235−413:09326.3%11.047.8%
2024–25NYI1000−15:560–00.065.6%
Total1 team52448013:25527.7%11.548.0%

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)
00.10.20.30.4101520253035404550
9m10m11m12m13m14m15m101520253035404550Game

Player card

How 2022–23 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

22nd 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.3487th pct
  • Assists /600.349th pct
  • ixG /600.1320th pct
  • Shots /604.4770th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.0%40th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.1%19th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.725th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.5149th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game13:257th pct
  • PP time share15.6%64th pct
  • PK time share2.4%6th pct
  • Quality of competition23.0%2nd 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.

+2.5 goals above expected

012341020304050Game

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

−10−50+5+10+15

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 speed25.8 km/h0th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot122.4 km/h5th pct
  • Distance skated1 km0th pct
  • Offensive-zone time59.3%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

25.8 km/h0th pct

▼ −7.9 km/h since 2023–24

202530354022–2323–2424–252022–23: 32.4 km/h, 0th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 33.7 km/h, 8th percentile (34 games)2024–25: 25.8 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.00th pct

▼ −0.9 since 2023–24

012322–2323–2424–252022–23: 0.2, 3rd percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 0.9, 25th percentile (34 games)2024–25: 0.0, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

12.5 km0th pct

▼ −0.1 km since 2023–24

1212.51313.51414.522–2323–2424–252022–23: 12.9 km, 14th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 12.6 km, 2nd percentile (34 games)2024–25: 12.5 km, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

122.4 km/h0th pct

▼ −29.4 km/h since 2023–24

10012014016018022–2323–2424–252022–23: 159.0 km/h, 88th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 151.8 km/h, 59th percentile (34 games)2024–25: 122.4 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

59.3%100th pct

▲ +19.8 points since 2023–24

30%40%50%60%70%22–2323–2424–252022–23: 43.3%, 73rd percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 39.4%, 22nd percentile (34 games)2024–25: 59.3%, 100th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)