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Left wing · #53

Isaac Howard

Age
22
Shoots
Left
Height
178 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Hudson, USA
Draft
2022, round 1, #31 (TBL)

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
33
Goals
2
Points
6
TOI per game
10:17
xGF% (5v5)
40.7%
Goals above expected
−2.6

Season by season

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

2025–26EDM29235−610:19365.6%04.241.5%
2026–27EDM4011010:0850.0%00.334.0%
Total1 team33246−610:17414.9%04.640.7%

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)
00.10.20.31015202530
9m10m11m12m1015202530Game

Player card

How 2025–26 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

3rd 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 /600.3513th pct
  • Assists /600.7124th pct
  • ixG /600.8051st pct
  • Goals above expected−2.626th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)40.7%4th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.7%7th pct
  • Relative xGF%−13.31st pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.536th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game10:179th pct
  • PP time share15.2%39th pct
  • Offensive zone starts74.4%92nd pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%17th 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.

−2.6 goals above expected

01234551015202530Game

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 speed37.6 km/h100th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph986th pct
  • Hardest shot142.5 km/h95th pct
  • Distance skated9 km24th pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.7%75th 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

37.1 km/h81st pct

2025–26 only

3535.53636.53737.525–262025–26: 37.1 km/h, 81st percentile (29 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

9.685th pct

2025–26 only

2468101225–262025–26: 9.6, 85th percentile (29 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.9 km74th pct

2025–26 only

1515.215.415.615.81616.225–262025–26: 15.9 km, 74th percentile (29 games)

Hardest shot

133.4 km/h24th pct

2025–26 only

13013514014525–262025–26: 133.4 km/h, 24th percentile (29 games)

Offensive-zone time

38.6%11th pct

2025–26 only

36%38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 38.6%, 11th percentile (29 games)