
- Age
- 26
- Shoots
- Right
- Height
- 175 cm
- Weight
- 82 kg
- Born
- Wakefield, USA
- Draft
- Undrafted
Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26
- Games
- 18
- Goals
- 1
- Points
- 2
- TOI per game
- 9:26
- xGF% (5v5)
- 40.8%
- Goals above expected
- −0.4
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.
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
Extra / AHL
1st percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
Extra / AHL- Goals /600.3513th pct
- Assists /600.354th pct
- ixG /600.5111th pct
- Goals above expected−0.456th pct
Play-driving
Extra / AHL- xGF% (5v5)40.8%4th pct
- CF% (5v5)43.0%6th pct
- Relative xGF%−8.36th pct
- Penalty diff /60-0.713rd pct
Usage
Extra / AHL- TOI per game9:266th pct
- PP time share1.0%14th pct
- Offensive zone starts35.0%15th 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). 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.
Faceoffs
How often Ford wins the draw over 2024–25 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 410+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
45.5%
30–36 · below the 410 draws of a regular
Against an average centre
44.8%
Opponents won 49.4% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.6% against them.
Wins above average
−3
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
5.5
66 draws in all.
By dot, attacking to the right
Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.
By zone
- Offensive zone57.1% 8–6
- Neutral zone55.0% 11–9
- Defensive zone34.4% 11–21
By strength
- Even strength46.2% 24–28
- Power play100.0% 1–0
- Shorthanded38.5% 5–8
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +20 after a win, −39 after a loss. Each win was worth 3.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Leo Carlsson57.1% 4–3
- Morgan Frost40.0% 2–3
- Sidney Crosby25.0% 1–3
- Elias Pettersson66.7% 2–1
- Aatu Räty0.0% 0–3
- Christian Dvorak50.0% 1–1
- Jett Luchanko100.0% 2–0
- Sean Couturier50.0% 1–1
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.
−0.4 goals above expected
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games
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.
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 speed35.9 km/h54th pct
- Speed bursts over 20 mph3234th pct
- Hardest shot129.1 km/h21st pct
- Distance skated41 km20th pct
- Offensive-zone time37.6%5th pct
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.
Top skating speed
35.9 km/h44th pct
▼ −0.2 km/h since 2024–25
Bursts over 20 mph per 60
13.195th pct
▼ −4.7 since 2024–25
Distance skated per 60
16.7 km98th pct
▲ +0.1 km since 2024–25
Hardest shot
129.1 km/h8th pct
▲ +5.1 km/h since 2024–25
Offensive-zone time
37.6%6th pct
▼ −1.5 points since 2024–25