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Defence · #48 · Rookie

Hunter Brzustewicz

Age
21
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Washington, USA
Draft
2023, round 3, #75 (VAN)

Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26

Games
35
Goals
2
Points
7
TOI per game
16:12
xGF% (5v5)
47.5%
Goals above expected
+0.8

Season by season

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

2024–25CGY1000+218:2320.0%00.072.6%
2025–26CGY34257016:08336.1%11.246.5%
Total1 team35257+216:12355.7%11.247.5%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.5101520253035
13m14m15m16m17m18m19m101520253035Game

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

2nd pair

48th 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

3rd pair
  • Goals /600.2159th pct
  • Assists /600.5327th pct
  • ixG /600.1319th pct
  • Shots /603.7055th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)47.5%34th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.4%52nd pct
  • Relative xGF%+6.196th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3861st pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game16:1230th pct
  • PP time share22.6%71st pct
  • PK time share4.2%9th pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%15th 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.

+0.8 goals above expected

00.511.525101520253035Game

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 speed33.3 km/h19th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph728th pct
  • Hardest shot135.0 km/h19th pct
  • Distance skated128 km36th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.5%78th 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

33.3 km/h5th pct

▲ +3.3 km/h since 2024–25

28303234363824–2525–262024–25: 30.1 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 33.3 km/h, 5th percentile (34 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.817th pct

▲ +0.8 since 2024–25

012324–2525–262024–25: 0.0, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 0.8, 17th percentile (34 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.0 km73rd pct

▲ +0.4 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.224–2525–262024–25: 13.6 km, 46th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.0 km, 73rd percentile (34 games)

Hardest shot

135.0 km/h3rd pct

▲ +27.3 km/h since 2024–25

10012014016024–2525–262024–25: 107.7 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 135.0 km/h, 3rd percentile (34 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.5%79th pct

▲ +2.9 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%24–2525–262024–25: 40.6%, 33rd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 43.5%, 79th percentile (34 games)