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Right wing · #85 · Rookie

Avery Hayes

Age
24
Shoots
Right
Height
178 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Westland, USA
Draft
Undrafted

2025–26

Games
16
Goals
5
Points
5
TOI per game
11:10
xGF% (5v5)
48.0%
Goals above expected
+1.9

Season

The regular-season line, by team for traded players.

2025–26PIT16505−411:102520.0%03.148.0%

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)
00.10.20.310111213141516
10m10m11m11m11m10111213141516Game

Player card

How this season compares with everyone else at the position, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

45th 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 /601.6898th pct
  • Assists /600.000th pct
  • ixG /601.0581st pct
  • Goals above expected+1.975th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.0%36th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.8%12th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.721st pct
  • Penalty diff /601.0198th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:1015th pct
  • PP time share2.4%21st pct
  • Offensive zone starts68.4%79th pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%47th 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.

+1.9 goals above expected

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

−15−10−50+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 speed35.3 km/h35th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1522nd pct
  • Hardest shot132.7 km/h33rd pct
  • Distance skated47 km21st pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.8%18th 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

35.3 km/h24th pct

2025–26 only

3535.53636.53725–262025–26: 35.3 km/h, 24th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.048th pct

2025–26 only

24681025–262025–26: 5.0, 48th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km62nd pct

2025–26 only

1515.215.415.615.81616.225–262025–26: 15.7 km, 62nd percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

132.7 km/h20th pct

2025–26 only

13013514014515025–262025–26: 132.7 km/h, 20th percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

39.8%21st pct

2025–26 only

38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 39.8%, 21st percentile (16 games, too few to rank reliably)