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Defence · #45 · Rookie

Harrison Brunicke

Age
20
Shoots
Right
Height
191 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Johannesburg, ZAF
Draft
2024, round 2, #44 (PIT)

2025–26

Games
9
Goals
1
Points
1
TOI per game
15:43
xGF% (5v5)
47.5%
Goals above expected
+0.5

Season

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

2025–26PIT9101−415:43812.5%00.547.5%

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)
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

14th 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.4288th pct
  • Assists /600.000th pct
  • ixG /600.2162nd pct
  • Shots /603.3944th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)47.5%31st pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.8%46th pct
  • Relative xGF%−8.33rd pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)3.092nd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game15:4321st pct
  • PP time share9.9%60th pct
  • PK time share0.9%3rd pct
  • Quality of competition23.2%5th 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.

+0.5 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 speed35.2 km/h58th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph933rd pct
  • Hardest shot137.5 km/h25th pct
  • Distance skated36 km20th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.6%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

35.2 km/h46th pct

2025–26 only

3434.53535.53636.525–262025–26: 35.2 km/h, 46th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.892nd pct

2025–26 only

01234525–262025–26: 3.8, 92nd percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.2 km100th pct

2025–26 only

1313.51414.51515.525–262025–26: 15.2 km, 100th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

137.5 km/h9th pct

2025–26 only

13514014515015516025–262025–26: 137.5 km/h, 9th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

43.6%79th pct

2025–26 only

38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 43.6%, 79th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)