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Alex Steeves

Toronto Maple Leafs Boston Bruins(traded during the season)
Age
26
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
90 kg
Born
Saint Paul, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2021–22 to 2025–26

Games
57
Goals
10
Points
19
TOI per game
11:13
xGF% (5v5)
49.5%
Goals above expected
+1.6
ShowAll teamsToronto Maple LeafsBoston Bruins

Season by season

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

2021–22TOR3011−17:5820.0%00.343.5%
2022–23TOR3000−27:5130.0%00.441.5%
2023–24TOR1000−110:1410.0%00.379.5%
2024–25TOR7112+39:53714.3%00.750.0%
2025–26BOS439716+611:565516.4%36.849.5%
Total2 teams5710919+511:136814.7%38.449.5%

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)
00.20.40.60.81020304050
9m10m11m12m13m14m1020304050Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2021–22 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

63rd 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

2nd line
  • Goals /600.9475th pct
  • Assists /600.8442nd pct
  • ixG /600.7956th pct
  • Goals above expected+1.671st pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.5%56th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.4%44th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.553rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4789th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game11:1323rd pct
  • PP time share17.1%45th pct
  • Offensive zone starts49.0%37th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%54th 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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Tye KartyeSEA0.87
  2. Josh Archibald0.85
  3. Dakota JoshuaTOR0.82
  4. Garnet Hathaway0.80
  5. Jacob MelansonSEA0.79
  6. Kiefer SherwoodVAN/SJS0.79

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.

+1.6 goals above expected

02468101020304050Game

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

−40−200+20+40+60+80

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 speed35.2 km/h34th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1825th pct
  • Hardest shot135.8 km/h47th pct
  • Distance skated127 km35th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.1%21st 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

35.2 km/h23rd pct

▲ +0.9 km/h since 2024–25

28303234363821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 33.8 km/h, 3rd percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 31.8 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 30.6 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 34.3 km/h, 6th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.2 km/h, 23rd percentile (43 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.110th pct

▲ +0.4 since 2024–25

024681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 2.5, 14th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 0.0, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 0.0, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 1.7, 7th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 2.1, 10th percentile (43 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.8 km14th pct

▼ −0.4 km since 2024–25

141516171821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 17.2 km, 99th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 16.0 km, 83rd percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 15.3 km, 32nd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.2 km, 23rd percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.8 km, 14th percentile (43 games)

Hardest shot

135.8 km/h37th pct

▲ +12.1 km/h since 2024–25

40608010012014016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 132.9 km/h, 13th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 123.0 km/h, 1st percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 66.9 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 123.8 km/h, 2nd percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 135.8 km/h, 37th percentile (43 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.1%24th pct

▼ −2.8 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 44.3%, 81st percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 38.3%, 10th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 44.4%, 78th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 42.9%, 64th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 40.1%, 24th percentile (43 games)