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Defence · #38 · Rookie

Owen Pickering

Age
22
Shoots
Left
Height
196 cm
Weight
97 kg
Born
St. Adolphe, CAN
Draft
2022, round 1, #21 (PIT)

Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26

Games
29
Goals
1
Points
3
TOI per game
14:26
xGF% (5v5)
47.7%
Goals above expected
+0.6

Season by season

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

2024–25PIT25123−514:49156.7%00.449.0%
2025–26PIT4000−312:0610.0%00.038.9%
Total1 team29123−814:26166.3%00.447.7%

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)
00.050.10.150.210152025
13m14m15m16m17m10152025Game

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 pair

24th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.1436th pct
  • Assists /600.294th pct
  • ixG /600.061st pct
  • Shots /602.295th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)47.7%35th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.4%52nd pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.945th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3371st pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game14:2612th pct
  • PP time share0.5%11th pct
  • PK time share23.2%42nd pct
  • Quality of competition24.7%60th pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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.

+0.6 goals above expected

00.20.40.60.81510152025Game

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

−50+5+10+15

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 speed32.6 km/h10th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph18th pct
  • Hardest shot147.6 km/h58th pct
  • Distance skated11 km11th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.3%45th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

32.6 km/h1st pct

▼ −1.2 km/h since 2024–25

32333435363724–2525–262024–25: 33.7 km/h, 9th percentile (25 games)2025–26: 32.6 km/h, 1st percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.234th pct

▲ +0.8 since 2024–25

012324–2525–262024–25: 0.5, 11th percentile (25 games)2025–26: 1.2, 34th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.1 km77th pct

▲ +0.9 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.224–2525–262024–25: 13.1 km, 15th percentile (25 games)2025–26: 14.1 km, 77th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

147.6 km/h45th pct

▼ −9.3 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015516024–2525–262024–25: 156.9 km/h, 86th percentile (25 games)2025–26: 147.6 km/h, 45th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

41.3%47th pct

▼ −1.3 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%24–2525–262024–25: 42.5%, 61st percentile (25 games)2025–26: 41.3%, 47th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)