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Defence · #14

Drew Helleson

Age
25
Shoots
Right
Height
191 cm
Weight
94 kg
Born
Farmington, USA
Draft
2019, round 2, #47 (COL)

Career · 3 seasons

Games
119
Goals
7
Points
29
TOI per game
16:36
xGF% (5v5)
42.3%
Goals above expected
+2.7

Season by season

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

2022–23ANA3101013:39425.0%00.238.2%
After a break: 2024–25ANA564913+616:21636.3%02.137.6%
2025–26ANA6021315−416:58395.1%01.946.4%
Total1 team11972229+216:361066.6%04.342.3%

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

How 3 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

10th 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 /600.2160th pct
  • Assists /600.6753rd pct
  • ixG /600.1318th pct
  • Shots /603.2230th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)42.3%7th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.1%19th pct
  • Relative xGF%−5.96th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.919th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game16:3638th pct
  • PP time share1.0%25th pct
  • PK time share22.4%44th pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%41st 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.

+2.7 goals above expected

0246820406080100Game

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

−10−50+5+10+15+20

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 speed34.1 km/h32nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1746th pct
  • Hardest shot147.9 km/h59th pct
  • Distance skated231 km49th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.2%45th 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

34.1 km/h17th pct

▼ −1.7 km/h since 2024–25

303234363822–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 32.1 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 35.8 km/h, 65th percentile (56 games)2025–26: 34.1 km/h, 17th percentile (60 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.024th pct

▼ −0.1 since 2024–25

012322–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 0.0, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 1.1, 33rd percentile (56 games)2025–26: 1.0, 24th percentile (60 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.6 km46th pct

▲ +0.4 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.222–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 13.3 km, 32nd percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 13.2 km, 18th percentile (56 games)2025–26: 13.6 km, 46th percentile (60 games)

Hardest shot

147.9 km/h47th pct

▲ +10.9 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016022–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 119.5 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 137.1 km/h, 10th percentile (56 games)2025–26: 147.9 km/h, 47th percentile (60 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.2%47th pct

▲ +3.6 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 35.8%, 1st percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 37.6%, 1st percentile (56 games)2025–26: 41.2%, 47th percentile (60 games)