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Gavin Brindley

Columbus Blue Jackets Colorado Avalanche(traded during the season)
Age
22
Shoots
Right
Height
173 cm
Weight
78 kg
Born
Fort Myers, USA
Draft
2023, round 2, #34 (CBJ)

Career · 2 seasons

Games
57
Goals
6
Points
13
TOI per game
9:36
xGF% (5v5)
48.2%
Goals above expected
−0.5
ShowAll teamsColumbus Blue JacketsColorado Avalanche

Season by season

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

2023–24CBJ1000012:200–00.056.8%
After a break: 2025–26COL566713+29:33629.7%06.548.1%
Total2 teams576713+29:36629.7%06.548.2%

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)
00.20.40.60.81020304050
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Player card

Model-based

How 2 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

39th 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 /600.6641st pct
  • Assists /600.7731st pct
  • ixG /600.7140th pct
  • Goals above expected−0.554th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.2%41st pct
  • CF% (5v5)53.1%83rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−10.23rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.6694th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game9:368th pct
  • PP time share18.5%43rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts59.6%61st pct
  • Quality of competition23.2%12th 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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Dominic JamesTBL0.79
  2. Rutger McGroarty0.76
  3. Zakhar BardakovCOL0.68
  4. Justin Bailey0.67
  5. Hendrix LapierreWSH0.66
  6. Rasmus Kupari0.66

Finishing

Model-based

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.

−0.5 goals above expected

02461020304050Game

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 speed37.3 km/h89th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph16889th pct
  • Hardest shot138.8 km/h58th pct
  • Distance skated149 km38th pct
  • Offensive-zone time42.8%58th 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

37.3 km/h86th pct

▲ +3.7 km/h since 2023–24

33343536373823–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 33.5 km/h, 1st percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 37.3 km/h, 86th percentile (56 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

18.899th pct

▼ −0.6 since 2023–24

051015202523–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 19.5, 99th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 18.8, 99th percentile (56 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.7 km97th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2023–24

141516171823–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 17.1 km, 99th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 16.7 km, 97th percentile (56 games)

Hardest shot

138.8 km/h49th pct

▲ +30.5 km/h since 2023–24

10012014016023–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 108.3 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 138.8 km/h, 49th percentile (56 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.8%61st pct

▲ +2.4 points since 2023–24

38%40%42%44%46%23–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 40.4%, 32nd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 42.8%, 61st percentile (56 games)