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Centre · #29 · Rookie

Brayden Yager

Age
21
Shoots
Right
Height
180 cm
Weight
82 kg
Born
Saskatoon, CAN
Draft
2023, round 1, #14 (PIT)

2025–26

Games
3
Goals
0
Points
0
TOI per game
10:59
xGF% (5v5)
51.0%
Goals above expected
−0.2

Season

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

2025–26WPG3000010:5920.0%00.251.0%

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

12th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.000th pct
  • Assists /600.000th pct
  • ixG /600.301st pct
  • Goals above expected−0.255th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)51.0%61st pct
  • CF% (5v5)42.2%3rd pct
  • Relative xGF%+12.3100th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-1.820th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:5914th pct
  • PP time share0.0%0th pct
  • Offensive zone starts50.0%40th pct
  • Quality of competition23.6%25th 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.

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

00.050.10.1511.522.53Game

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 speed32.9 km/h4th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph12nd pct
  • Hardest shot129.6 km/h23rd pct
  • Distance skated9 km8th pct
  • Offensive-zone time36.5%1st 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

32.9 km/h0th pct

2025–26 only

3234363825–262025–26: 32.9 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.88th pct

2025–26 only

024681025–262025–26: 1.8, 8th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.6 km97th pct

2025–26 only

14.51515.51616.51725–262025–26: 16.6 km, 97th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

129.6 km/h10th pct

2025–26 only

12513013514014515025–262025–26: 129.6 km/h, 10th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

36.5%1st pct

2025–26 only

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 36.5%, 1st percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)