- Age
- 19
- Shoots
- Right
- Height
- 180 cm
- Weight
- 83 kg
- Born
- Coquitlam, CAN
- Draft
- 2025, round 1, #11 (PIT)
Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27
- Games
- 81
- Goals
- 19
- Points
- 39
- TOI per game
- 15:11
- xGF% (5v5)
- 53.4%
- Goals above expected
- −3.3
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.
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 line
72nd percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
2nd line- Goals /600.9366th pct
- Assists /600.9849th pct
- ixG /601.0985th pct
- Goals above expected−3.320th pct
Play-driving
1st line- xGF% (5v5)53.4%79th pct
- CF% (5v5)52.2%76th pct
- Relative xGF%+1.466th pct
- Penalty diff /600.3981st pct
Usage
3rd line- TOI per game15:1155th pct
- PP time share39.0%64th pct
- Offensive zone starts61.4%64th pct
- Quality of competition24.1%37th 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).
Most similar players this season
Faceoffs
How often Kindel wins the draw over 2025–26 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 217+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
43.7%
300–386 · #163 of 184 regulars, 12th percentile
Against an average centre
44.4%
Opponents won 50.7% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.3% against them.
Wins above average
−38
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
8.7
686 draws in all.
By dot, attacking to the right
Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.
By zone
- Offensive zone46.3% 111–129
- Neutral zone42.0% 103–142
- Defensive zone42.8% 86–115
By strength
- Even strength43.0% 263–349
- Power play53.3% 24–21
- Shorthanded44.8% 13–16
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +22 after a win, −18 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.4 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Logan Stankoven57.1% 8–6
- Nazem Kadri46.2% 6–7
- Brendan Gaunce45.5% 5–6
- Casey Cizikas30.0% 3–7
- Scott Laughton50.0% 5–5
- Nick Paul30.0% 3–7
- Adam Fantilli60.0% 6–4
- Tomas Nosek40.0% 4–6
Season by season
| Season | Draws | Win rate | Against average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 649 | 43.6% | 44.2% |
| 2026–27 | 37 | 45.9% | 47.8% |
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
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games
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.
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 speed33.0 km/h20th pct
- Speed bursts over 20 mph223rd pct
- Hardest shot116.2 km/h32nd pct
- Distance skated8 km20th pct
- Offensive-zone time46.8%86th pct
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.
Top skating speed
36.3 km/h57th pct
2025–26 only
Bursts over 20 mph per 60
6.562nd pct
2025–26 only
Distance skated per 60
16.0 km80th pct
2025–26 only
Hardest shot
143.9 km/h76th pct
2025–26 only
Offensive-zone time
42.2%55th pct
2025–26 only