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Right wing · #56 · Rookie

Ethan Cardwell

Age
24
Shoots
Right
Height
180 cm
Weight
91 kg
Born
Oshawa, CAN
Draft
2021, round 4, #121 (SJS)

Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26

Games
13
Goals
2
Points
2
TOI per game
11:45
xGF% (5v5)
34.7%
Goals above expected
+0.7

Season by season

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

2024–25SJS6101−211:32520.0%00.538.0%
2025–26SJS7101−311:56616.7%00.832.3%
Total1 team13202−511:451118.2%01.334.7%

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)
0.080.10.120.140.160.180.21010.51111.51212.513
11m12m12m12m12m1010.51111.51212.513Game

Player card

How 2024–25 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

9th 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

4th line
  • Goals /600.7956th pct
  • Assists /600.000th pct
  • ixG /600.509th pct
  • Goals above expected+0.765th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)34.7%0th pct
  • CF% (5v5)42.1%2nd pct
  • Relative xGF%−13.20th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0038th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:4525th pct
  • PP time share1.9%22nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts41.0%22nd pct
  • Quality of competition23.7%26th 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.

Most similar players this season

Needs a regular role to compare.

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.

+0.7 goals above expected

00.511.5224681012Game

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

−20−100+10+20+30

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 speed35.1 km/h29th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1422nd pct
  • Hardest shot136.9 km/h51st pct
  • Distance skated23 km16th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.2%14th 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

35.1 km/h18th pct

▲ +0.4 km/h since 2024–25

343536373824–2525–262024–25: 34.6 km/h, 8th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.1 km/h, 18th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

10.188th pct

▲ +1.4 since 2024–25

2468101224–2525–262024–25: 8.7, 79th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 10.1, 88th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.3 km88th pct

▲ +0.3 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.524–2525–262024–25: 15.9 km, 72nd percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 16.3 km, 88th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

136.9 km/h41st pct

▼ −4.1 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515024–2525–262024–25: 140.9 km/h, 55th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 136.9 km/h, 41st percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

39.2%15th pct

▲ +0.7 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%24–2525–262024–25: 38.5%, 10th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 39.2%, 15th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)