{"id":72126,"date":"2025-08-16T06:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72126\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:55:06","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-leaders-for-nashville-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72126\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats leaders for Nashville Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of NHL.com&#8217;s 32 in 32 series, we will identify key <a href=\"http:\/\/nhl.com\/edge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EDGE stats<\/a> for each team to preview the 2025-26 season. Today, we look at the impact of three advanced metrics for the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n<p>1. Offensive zone time percentage<\/p>\n<p>The Predators ranked third in the NHL in offensive zone time percentage at all strengths last season (44.1) behind the Carolina Hurricanes (47.2) and Florida Panthers (44.9). Nashville defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/roman-josi-8474600\" title=\"Roman Josi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Josi<\/a> was fifth at his position in that category (47.0), marking consecutive seasons of him ranking in the top 10 (48.0 in 2023-24; seventh).<\/p>\n<p>Josi, 35, also ranked highly among defensemen last season in top shot speed (97.77 miles per hour; 90th percentile) and midrange shots on goal (40; 95th percentile) despite being limited to 53 games. He is recovering from Postural Tachycardia Syndrome, a condition where a change in posture from lying down to standing causes an abnormal increase in heart rate, but is expected to play for Nashville this season.<\/p>\n<p>Other returning standouts for the Predators in terms of offensive zone time percentage (percentage of time that puck spends in offensive zone while player is on ice and game clock is running), were the following forwards (percentiles at position listed below):<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-o-reilly-8475158\" title=\"Ryan O&#039;Reilly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>: 46.5 (95th percentile)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/michael-bunting-8478047\" title=\"Michael Bunting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bunting<\/a>: 46.2 (94th percentile)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/steven-stamkos-8474564\" title=\"Steven Stamkos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Stamkos<\/a>: 45.9 (92nd percentile)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/luke-evangelista-8482146\" title=\"Luke Evangelista\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Evangelista<\/a>: 45.9 (92nd percentile)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jonathan-marchessault-8476539\" title=\"Jonathan Marchessault\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Marchessault<\/a>: 45.8 (91st percentile)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/filip-forsberg-8476887\" title=\"Filip Forsberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Forsberg<\/a>: 45.6 (90th percentile)<\/p>\n<p>2. Forsberg&#8217;s shots on goal by location<\/p>\n<p>Forsberg, who ranked fifth in the NHL in shots on goal (281) last season, was among the League&#8217;s best in midrange shots on goal (102; ninth) and forward leaders in long-range shots on goal (42; fourth). Forsberg also ranked highly in high-danger shots on goal (53; 81st percentile among forwards).<\/p>\n<p>Forsberg, like his teammate and fellow elite scorer Josi, was among the best at his position in top shot speed (96.32 mph; 97th percentile among forwards) and also ranked highly in average shot speed (62.82 mph; 90th percentile). Forsberg also brings a physical element to his game; he was one of two NHL players last season with at least 30 goals (31) and 150 hits (151), joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tom-wilson-8476880\" title=\"Tom Wilson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a> of the Washington Capitals (33 goals; 233 hits).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of NHL.com&#8217;s 32 in 32 series, we will identify key EDGE stats for each team to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-72126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}