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Defence · #44 · Rookie

Cole Hutson

Age
20
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
82 kg
Born
St. Louis, USA
Draft
2024, round 2, #43 (WSH)

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
16
Goals
4
Points
11
TOI per game
17:40
xGF% (5v5)
47.0%
Goals above expected
+0.4

Season by season

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

2025–26WSH143710−317:272213.6%63.347.7%
2026–27WSH2101+219:06425.0%00.344.0%
Total1 team164711−117:402615.4%63.647.0%

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)
0.20.40.60.8110111213141516
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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

2nd pair

61st 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 /600.85100th pct
  • Assists /601.4994th pct
  • ixG /600.77100th pct
  • Shots /605.5289th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)47.0%29th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.5%41st pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.660th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.7321st pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game17:4039th pct
  • PP time share48.2%88th pct
  • PK time share1.3%3rd pct
  • Quality of competition23.6%13th 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.

+0.4 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 speed35.5 km/h97th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph376th pct
  • Hardest shot141.3 km/h76th pct
  • Distance skated9 km24th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.2%21st 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

36.9 km/h88th pct

2025–26 only

343536373825–262025–26: 36.9 km/h, 88th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.288th pct

2025–26 only

0123425–262025–26: 3.2, 88th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.6 km98th pct

2025–26 only

1313.51414.51525–262025–26: 14.6 km, 98th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

141.3 km/h19th pct

2025–26 only

13514014515015516025–262025–26: 141.3 km/h, 19th percentile (14 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 (14 games, too few to rank reliably)