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Defence · #19

Zayne Parekh

Age
20
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
81 kg
Born
Markham, CAN
Draft
2024, round 1, #9 (CGY)

Career · 2024–25 to 2026–27

Games
43
Goals
5
Points
11
TOI per game
17:26
xGF% (5v5)
44.5%
Goals above expected
+0.2

Season by season

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

2024–25CGY1101+320:31250.0%00.247.9%
2025–26CGY37459−917:09498.2%63.745.0%
2026–27CGY5011−1018:5890.0%10.941.6%
Total1 team435611−1617:26608.3%74.844.5%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.510152025303540
14m16m18m20m10152025303540Game

Player card

How 2024–25 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

38th 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

1st pair
  • Goals /600.4092nd pct
  • Assists /600.4820th pct
  • ixG /600.3895th pct
  • Shots /604.8083rd pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)44.5%12th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.1%48th pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.838th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.7314th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game17:2643rd pct
  • PP time share54.1%91st pct
  • PK time share0.3%1st pct
  • Quality of competition23.9%18th 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.

+0.2 goals above expected

012345510152025303540Game

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 speed32.5 km/h35th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph125th pct
  • Hardest shot128.3 km/h40th pct
  • Distance skated14 km57th pct
  • Offensive-zone time49.2%95th 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

34.8 km/h34th pct

▲ +3.5 km/h since 2024–25

303234363824–2525–262024–25: 31.4 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 34.8 km/h, 34th percentile (37 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.268th pct

▲ +2.2 since 2024–25

012324–2525–262024–25: 0.0, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 2.2, 68th percentile (37 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.6 km97th pct

▼ −0.2 km since 2024–25

1313.51414.51524–2525–262024–25: 14.8 km, 98th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.6 km, 97th percentile (37 games)

Hardest shot

135.7 km/h5th pct

▲ +25.2 km/h since 2024–25

10012014016024–2525–262024–25: 110.5 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 135.7 km/h, 5th percentile (37 games)

Offensive-zone time

45.5%94th pct

▼ −1.3 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%48%24–2525–262024–25: 46.9%, 98th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 45.5%, 94th percentile (37 games)