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Right wing · #52

Taylor Ward

Age
28
Shoots
Right
Height
188 cm
Weight
98 kg
Born
Kelowna, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26

Games
37
Goals
4
Points
8
TOI per game
9:37
xGF% (5v5)
52.9%
Goals above expected
−0.9

Season by season

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

2024–25LAK1101014:52425.0%10.771.8%
2025–26LAK3634709:28387.9%04.252.3%
Total1 team3744809:37429.5%14.952.9%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.5101520253035
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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

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

3rd line
  • Goals /600.6744th pct
  • Assists /600.6723rd pct
  • ixG /600.8257th pct
  • Goals above expected−0.951st pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)52.9%79th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.1%60th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.164th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1761st pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:377th pct
  • PP time share14.9%39th pct
  • Offensive zone starts41.5%22nd pct
  • Quality of competition23.1%7th 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).

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.

−0.9 goals above expected

0123455101520253035Game

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 speed35.5 km/h42nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph3335th pct
  • Hardest shot150.1 km/h93rd pct
  • Distance skated86 km29th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.4%26th 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

35.5 km/h31st pct

▲ +3.2 km/h since 2024–25

303234363824–2525–262024–25: 32.3 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.5 km/h, 31st percentile (36 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.855th pct

▲ +1.8 since 2024–25

24681024–2525–262024–25: 4.0, 35th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 5.8, 55th percentile (36 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.2 km30th pct

▼ −0.4 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.524–2525–262024–25: 15.6 km, 52nd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 15.2 km, 30th percentile (36 games)

Hardest shot

150.1 km/h92nd pct

▲ +61.6 km/h since 2024–25

8010012014016024–2525–262024–25: 88.5 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 150.1 km/h, 92nd percentile (36 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.4%28th pct

▼ −4.7 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%24–2525–262024–25: 45.0%, 88th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 40.4%, 28th percentile (36 games)