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Defence · #45 · Rookie

Drew Fortescue

Age
21
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
85 kg
Born
Pearl River, USA
Draft
2023, round 3, #90 (NYR)

2025–26

Games
9
Goals
0
Points
2
TOI per game
14:51
xGF% (5v5)
46.0%
Goals above expected
−0.2

Season

The regular-season line, by team for traded players.

2025–26NYR9022+414:5130.0%00.246.0%

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)
Game

Player card

How this season compares with everyone else at the position, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

7th 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 /600.006th pct
  • Assists /600.9071st pct
  • ixG /600.071st pct
  • Shots /601.350th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)46.0%22nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.0%10th pct
  • Relative xGF%−7.84th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2684th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game14:5115th pct
  • PP time share3.9%50th pct
  • PK time share0.8%3rd pct
  • Quality of competition21.5%0th 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). 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.

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.

−0.2 goals above expected

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

−8−6−4−20+2+4+6+8+10

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 speed33.5 km/h22nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph215th pct
  • Hardest shot123.5 km/h10th pct
  • Distance skated31 km20th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.5%77th 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

33.5 km/h7th pct

2025–26 only

333435363725–262025–26: 33.5 km/h, 7th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.921st pct

2025–26 only

0.511.522.5325–262025–26: 0.9, 21st percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.1 km77th pct

2025–26 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.225–262025–26: 14.1 km, 77th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

123.5 km/h0th pct

2025–26 only

11012013014015016025–262025–26: 123.5 km/h, 0th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

43.5%79th pct

2025–26 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%25–262025–26: 43.5%, 79th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)