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Defence · #4

Braden Schneider

New York Rangers
Age
25
Shoots
Right
Height
191 cm
Weight
97 kg
Born
Prince Albert, CAN
Draft
2020, round 1, #19 (NYR)

Career · 2021–22 to 2026–27

Games
377
Goals
20
Points
88
TOI per game
17:12
xGF% (5v5)
45.5%
Goals above expected
+1.7

Season by season

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

2021–22NYR432911+515:29258.0%11.342.5%
2022–23NYR8251318+915:32796.3%03.544.8%
2023–24NYR8251419−115:54955.3%04.849.2%
2024–25NYR8061521+917:52956.3%04.445.6%
2025–26NYR8221618−520:271022.0%04.043.8%
2026–27NYR8011+417:0990.0%00.346.3%
Total1 team377206888+2117:124054.9%118.345.5%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.650100150200250300350
12m14m16m18m20m22m24m50100150200250300350Game

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

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 /600.1952nd pct
  • Assists /600.6343rd pct
  • ixG /600.1746th pct
  • Shots /603.7549th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)45.5%23rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.7%15th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.510th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.6730th pct

Usage

2nd pair
  • TOI per game17:1248th pct
  • PP time share2.7%42nd pct
  • PK time share29.0%57th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Joshua BrownOTT/ARI0.86
  2. Jarred TinordiCHI0.85
  3. Dysin Mayo0.84
  4. Haydn FleurySEA/TBL/WPG0.84
  5. Connor MurphyCHI0.83
  6. Ty EmbersonEDM0.81

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.

+1.7 goals above expected

0510152050100150200250300350Game

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 speed33.0 km/h53rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph125th pct
  • Hardest shot123.5 km/h28th pct
  • Distance skated19 km87th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.1%30th 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

35.7 km/h62nd pct

▼ −1.2 km/h since 2024–25

323436384021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.5 km/h, 60th percentile (43 games)2022–23: 36.2 km/h, 78th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 37.8 km/h, 97th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 36.8 km/h, 88th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 35.7 km/h, 62nd percentile (82 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.753rd pct

▼ −0.9 since 2024–25

0.511.522.5321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 2.2, 70th percentile (43 games)2022–23: 2.7, 83rd percentile (82 games)2023–24: 2.4, 77th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 2.6, 80th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 1.7, 53rd percentile (82 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.1 km13th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 13.6 km, 45th percentile (43 games)2022–23: 13.2 km, 27th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 13.5 km, 47th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 13.5 km, 40th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 13.1 km, 13th percentile (82 games)

Hardest shot

148.6 km/h50th pct

▲ +3.5 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015516021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 141.9 km/h, 11th percentile (43 games)2022–23: 151.3 km/h, 52nd percentile (82 games)2023–24: 143.6 km/h, 24th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 145.1 km/h, 33rd percentile (80 games)2025–26: 148.6 km/h, 50th percentile (82 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.4%18th pct

▲ +1.4 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 40.1%, 27th percentile (43 games)2022–23: 39.3%, 16th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 41.1%, 40th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 38.1%, 4th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 39.4%, 18th percentile (82 games)