Points by season
Career NHL points, ending with the 84-game projection (violet).
Pool value
Projected full-season fantasy worth.
why 61?
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 goals9 × 3+27
- proj assists27 × 1+27
- PP points22 × 0.5+11
- game-winning goals4 × 0.5+2
- OT goals0 × 0.25+0
- shots150 × 0.1+15
- PIM71 × 0.05+3.6
- ice time (min)1544 × 0.01+15.4
- total101 pool points · an elite defenseman season scores 166101 = 61/100
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 101 points is 61 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 (19 games so far — small sample, secondary lines will move as roles settle). Hits/blocks are excluded: the free NHL feeds don't publish full-season totals, and we don't invent them.
The Situation
- Trust is growing: 20:14/game over the last 6, up 21% from 16:45 earlier in the season.
- Hot window: 6.7 pts/10 over the last 6 vs 3.3/10 season baseline.
- Every night: in the lineup for all of the team's last 10 games.
- Availability: every game this season — 15 of 15 for CGY.
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 • −0.8
- TRADE VALUE: AT PACE — trade value is what the numbers say it is.
- 5.9% shooting on 34 shots against HIS OWN career baseline of 7.3% (51 shots before this season) — that's 0.5 goals below what his shot volume normally buys for him (2.5 expected goals). on pace. His shrunk talent rate is 6.8%, worth PD −0.8 goals per 84 over/under his own standard.
- His goals track his shot volume almost exactly — what you see is what you have.
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.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | PPG | PPP | SHG | TOI/GP | GWG | OTG | S | S% | FOW% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Flames | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:31 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 50.0% | 0.0% |
| 2025-26 | Flames | 37 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -9 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 17:09 | 1 | 0 | 49 | 8.2% | 0.0% |
| 2026-27 | Flames | 19 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -12 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 18:23 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 5.9% | 0.0% |
| 84-G proj | Flames | 84 | 9 | 27 | 36 | — | 63 | — | 13 | — | 18:39 | — | — | 129 | — | — |
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 20 that is 4%. Dashes mark stats the model doesn't project.
Goals — with the line
| Time | ST | Type | Goal | His line | Opp ice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8 · vs PHI | |||||
| P1 15:26 | EV | Goal | Parekh (Kuznetsov, Sharangovich) → 1-1 | Frost · Sharangovich · Stromgren · Klapka · Castagna · Suniev Hanley · Kuznetsov · Nemec · Parekh | Couturier · Acciari · Tippett · Zegras · Knuble · Barkey Seeler · Benoit · York · Bonk Vladar (G) |
| Nov 6 · vs ANA | |||||
| P1 02:23 | EV | Assist | Stromgren (Parekh, Kuznetsov) → 1-0 | Frost · Sharangovich · Stromgren · Klapka · Castagna · Suniev Hanley · Kuznetsov · Nemec · Parekh | Nesterenko · Colangelo · Malott · Myatovic · McQueen Luneau · Mintyukov · Warren · Mitchell Dostal (G) |
| P1 19:02 | PP | Assist | Farabee (Parekh, Frost) → 3-1 | Backlund · Frost · Farabee · Coronato · Gridin Middleton · Whitecloud · Parekh | Killorn · Granlund · Gauthier · Carlsson · Washe Helleson · LaCombe · Mintyukov · Warren Dostal (G) |
| Oct 31 · @ COL | |||||
| P3 01:59 | EV | Assist | Pospisil (Strome, Parekh) → 2-4 | Backlund · Strome · Farabee · Pospisil · Coronato · Gridin Kuznetsov · Parekh | Kadri · Schwartz · Hughes Burns · Malinski Blackwood (G) |
| Oct 26 · vs TOR | |||||
| P2 00:25 | PP | Assist | Gridin (Parekh, Cooley) → 3-0 | Frost · Coronato · Farabee · Gridin Parekh | Sissons · Blueger McCabe · Stecher Bobrovsky (G) |
Line mates
Teammates sharing the most ice time with Zayne over the last 10 games — reconstructed shift-by-shift from the NHL's official timing feed (goalies excluded).
| Player | Shared min | GP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yan Kuznetsov CGY | 95 | 10 | |
| Morgan Frost CGY | 76 | 10 | |
| Matvei Gridin CGY | 67 | 10 | |
| Matt Coronato CGY | 56 | 10 | |
| Joel Farabee CGY | 51 | 10 |
Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats