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Defence · #6

Sam Dickinson

Age
20
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
91 kg
Born
Toronto, CAN
Draft
2024, round 1, #11 (SJS)

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
73
Goals
1
Points
14
TOI per game
16:45
xGF% (5v5)
47.4%
Goals above expected
−3.3

Season by season

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

2025–26SJS7211314−516:45721.4%04.347.7%
2026–27SJS1000−216:2810.0%00.023.6%
Total1 team7311314−716:45731.4%04.347.4%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.510203040506070
14m15m16m17m18m19m20m10203040506070Game

Player card

How 2025–26 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

23rd 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 /600.0514th pct
  • Assists /600.6443rd pct
  • ixG /600.2160th pct
  • Shots /603.5851st pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)47.4%30th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.0%25th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.551st pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.7024th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game16:4529th pct
  • PP time share6.0%56th pct
  • PK time share17.8%29th pct
  • Quality of competition23.4%9th 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.

−3.3 goals above expected

01234510203040506070Game

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 speed33.3 km/h62nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph125th pct
  • Hardest shot128.6 km/h42nd pct
  • Distance skated4 km6th pct
  • Offensive-zone time33.2%4th 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

35.8 km/h66th pct

2025–26 only

3434.53535.53636.525–262025–26: 35.8 km/h, 66th percentile (72 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.984th pct

2025–26 only

0123425–262025–26: 2.9, 84th percentile (72 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.6 km45th pct

2025–26 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.225–262025–26: 13.6 km, 45th percentile (72 games)

Hardest shot

147.6 km/h45th pct

2025–26 only

14014515015525–262025–26: 147.6 km/h, 45th percentile (72 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.5%53rd pct

2025–26 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%25–262025–26: 41.5%, 53rd percentile (72 games)