{"id":216664,"date":"2025-10-11T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216664\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:50:08","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-leaders-for-2025-26-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216664\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats leaders for 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

NHL.com’s fantasy staff continues to cover the latest trends and storylines in the League through the lens of NHL EDGE<\/a> puck and player tracker stats. Throughout the 2025-26 season, we identify the leaders in key advanced metrics.<\/p>\n

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Skating speed: 24.61 miles per hour – Connor McDavid<\/a> (F, EDM)<\/p>\n

McDavid reached his top skating speed of the NHL EDGE tracking era (since 2021-22) for the Edmonton Oilers in the second period of their season opener against the Calgary Flames on Oct. 8, surpassing his previous high of 24.19 mph from the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n

The only top skating speed faster than McDavid’s mark in the regular season or Stanley Cup Playoffs since 2021-22 was Miles Wood<\/a> (24.82 mph) last season. McDavid also leads the NHL in 22-plus mph speed bursts (four) this season; he had two assists in the opener and leads active players in career points per game (1.52).<\/p>\n

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Shot speed: 99.09 mph – Joel Edmundson<\/a> (D, LAK)<\/p>\n

Edmundson reached his League-leading mark for the Los Angeles Kings in the third period at the Vegas Golden Knights on Oct. 8. He also had a shot attempt of 96.77 mph against the Colorado Avalanche on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

Another standout in terms of shot speed early on this season is Carolina Hurricanes rookie defenseman Alexander Nikishin<\/a>, who had two shot attempts of at least 90 mph against the New Jersey Devils on Oct. 9 in their season opener; Nikishin is tied with Edmundson and Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar<\/a> for the NHL lead in that category (two each).<\/p>\n

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High-danger goals: 3 – Justin Brazeau<\/a> (F, PIT)<\/p>\n

One of the biggest surprises through the first three days of the season, the Pittsburgh Penguins are 2-0-0 thanks largely to Brazeau\u2019s prowess from high-danger areas. In addition to leading the NHL in high-danger goals, Brazeau also has the most high-danger shots on goal (seven in two games) playing mostly on the second line with veteran center Evgeni Malkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Three other players have scored multiple high-danger goals early on this season: Elias Lindholm<\/a> of the Boston Bruins, Filip Chytil<\/a> of the Vancouver Canucks and Shane Pinto<\/a> of the Ottawa Senators (two high-danger goals each).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL.com’s fantasy staff continues to cover the latest trends and storylines in the League through the lens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-216664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}