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Right wing · #42

Braeden Bowman

Age
23
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
91 kg
Born
Kitchener, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
58
Goals
9
Points
28
TOI per game
14:00
xGF% (5v5)
51.9%
Goals above expected
−5.3

Season by season

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

2025–26VGK5481826−1614:087510.7%413.552.3%
2026–27VGK4112−312:12616.7%00.847.3%
Total1 team5891928−1914:008111.1%414.351.9%

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)
00.20.40.60.811020304050
12m13m14m15m16m17m1020304050Game

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

3rd line

46th 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 /600.6740th pct
  • Assists /601.4077th pct
  • ixG /601.0583rd pct
  • Goals above expected−5.38th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)51.9%68th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.2%48th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.926th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.1523rd pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game14:0044th pct
  • PP time share31.0%55th pct
  • Offensive zone starts67.0%77th pct
  • Quality of competition25.1%72nd 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.

−5.3 goals above expected

0510151020304050Game

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 speed33.0 km/h21st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph223rd pct
  • Hardest shot124.8 km/h54th pct
  • Distance skated12 km49th pct
  • Offensive-zone time45.0%76th 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

34.5 km/h7th pct

2025–26 only

343536373825–262025–26: 34.5 km/h, 7th percentile (54 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.111th pct

2025–26 only

024681025–262025–26: 2.1, 11th percentile (54 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.6 km9th pct

2025–26 only

1414.51515.51616.525–262025–26: 14.6 km, 9th percentile (54 games)

Hardest shot

127.4 km/h6th pct

2025–26 only

12513013514014515025–262025–26: 127.4 km/h, 6th percentile (54 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.2%68th pct

2025–26 only

38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 43.2%, 68th percentile (54 games)