Travis Sanheim

Travis Sanheim

D · Left shotTop PairingAge 306'4" · 222 lbElkhorn, Canada
cap hit$6.25M8-year extensionsigned Oct. 13, 2022contract ledger →

Points by season

Career NHL points, ending with the 84-game projection (violet).

19: 35 pts351920: 25 pts2521: 15 pts152122: 31 pts3123: 23 pts232324: 44 pts4425: 30 pts302526: 37 pts3732PROJ27: 9 pts (projected 32)27

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

56/100
why 56?

Each row is one fantasy category turned into points over a full 84-game season. Add the rows up and that is his total fantasy worth.

  • proj goals10 × 3+30
  • proj assists22 × 1+22
  • PP points4 × 0.5+2
  • game-winning goals0 × 0.5+0
  • OT goals0 × 0.25+0
  • shots152 × 0.1+15.2
  • PIM48 × 0.05+2.4
  • ice time (min)2099 × 0.01+21
  • total93 pool points  ·  an elite defenseman season scores 16693 = 56/100

Weights follow what the average fantasy league actually counts: goals at 3× assists (the universal core), power-play points and game-winners at half weight (common extra categories), OT goals, shots and PIM small (many leagues skip them), and ice time as a quiet availability bonus. The scale: add up a whole season of those categories and compare against the best defensemen in the NHL — an elite season scores about 166 points, and that is what 100 means. So 93 points is 56 out of a perfect fantasy season at his position. Defensemen and forwards are graded on separate scales because the D slot can only be filled by a defenseman. Goals and assists come from the backtested season model; the rest ride your own season-to-date pace over 84 games (21 games so far). Hits/blocks are excluded: the free NHL feeds don't publish full-season totals, and we don't invent them.

The Situation

  • Hot window: 6.7 pts/10 over the last 6 vs 3.0/10 season baseline.
  • Every night: in the lineup for all of the team's last 10 games.
  • Availability: every game this season — 16 of 16 for PHI.

Every line is measured from our own boxscore ledger; absence reasons from the NHL Status Report and our transaction wire only — no insider guessing.

Finishing check on pace O/U • +0.9

Model: goals vs shot volume vs live league position baselines; talent SH% is an empirical-Bayes shrinkage of the season…

His shooting talent is estimated by shrinking his season shooting percentage toward his league position mean in proportion to sample size (kappa pseudo-shots prior), then projecting the gap over 84 games at his current shot volume. Small samples stay near zero — the number only moves when the evidence does.

The method follows published hockey-analytics research: a shooter is judged against his own career shooting percentage, because a player's own career rate predicts his next goals better than any league average (“Expected by Whom? A Skill-Adjusted Expected Goals Model for NHL Shooters and Goaltenders,” arXiv:2511.07703). Thin careers (rookies) shrink toward the league mean for the position, and the season number is shrunk toward the player's own anchor with empirical-Bayes weights — Nandakumar & Jensen (2019), Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105202. This section is about the gap between luck and his pace, not talent.

Season stats

NHL regular-season totals, season by season. The 84-G proj line extends the current season with our public model — methodology in the caption below the table.

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMPPGPPPSHGTOI/GPGWGOTGSS%FOW%
2017-18Flyers492810-62000015:3500722.8%0.0%
2018-19Flyers8292635-42225019:34211217.4%0.0%
2019-20Flyers698172543204020:09001107.3%0.0%
2020-21Flyers5531215-222300021:53111003.0%0.0%
2021-22Flyers807243193400022:58111235.7%0.0%
2022-23Flyers8171623-54001120:24101116.3%0.0%
2023-24Flyers81103444-204805123:48301466.8%0.0%
2024-25Flyers8282230-64002024:30001395.8%0.0%
2025-26Flyers81112637122013124:13119511.6%0.0%
2026-27Flyers21369-51201125:0000387.9%0.0%
84-G projFlyers84102232—48—3—22:50——133——

84-G proj — current pace blended with the player's own history (recent seasons weighted heaviest), mixed with a similarity projection from historical players with comparable profiles, then adjusted for the aging curve (league-average peak at 27; decline after) — at age 30 that is -2%. Dashes mark stats the model doesn't project.

Comparable player-seasons: Neal Pionk (2025-25) · Drew Doughty (2025-25) · Hampus Lindholm (2025-25) · Jonas Brodin (2025-25) · Jared Spurgeon (2025-25).

Goals — with the line

TimeSTTypeGoalHis lineOpp ice
Nov 11 · @ EDM
P3 11:42EVGoalSanheim (#?, Michkov) → 2-2
Cates · Zegras · Barkey · Michkov · Martone
Sanheim · Drysdale
McDavid · Joseph · Formenton · Michaels
Murphy · Shea · Emberson · Mukhamadullin
Jarry (G)
Nov 9 · @ VAN
P3 19:01SHGoalSanheim → 3-1
Couturier · Dvorak · Acciari · Cates
Seeler · Sanheim · Drysdale
Boeser · DeBrusk · Pettersson · Karlsson · Cotter · O'Connor · Rossi · Lekkerimaki
Brisebois · Pettersson · Buium
Merilainen (G)
Nov 1 · vs UTA
P2 05:50EVAssistCates (Sanheim, Drysdale) → 3-1
Konecny · Cates · Zegras · Michkov · Martone
Seeler · Sanheim · Benoit · Drysdale
O'Brien · Schmaltz · Stenlund · Keller · McBain · Guenther
Weegar · Sergachev · Duda · Simashev
Vejmelka (G)
P3 01:02EVAssistDvorak (Konecny, Sanheim) → 4-1
Couturier · Dvorak · Konecny · Acciari · Zegras · Knuble
Sanheim · York · Drysdale · Bonk
Trocheck · Schmaltz · Crouse · Keller · Guenther · Cooley
Schmidt · Weegar · Peeke · Sergachev
Vejmelka (G)
Oct 27 · vs CBJ
P3 15:04EVAssistZegras (Dvorak, Sanheim) → 2-3
Dvorak · Zegras · Foerster
Sanheim · Drysdale
Monahan · Nichushkin · Garland
Werenski · Fabbro
Talbot (G)

Line mates

Teammates sharing the most ice time with Travis over the last 10 games — reconstructed shift-by-shift from the NHL's official timing feed (goalies excluded).

PlayerShared minGP
Jamie Drysdale PHI10810
Christian Dvorak PHI10010
Trevor Zegras PHI7710
Oliver Bonk PHI7610
Sean Couturier PHI7410

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats