Defense vs Position
NHL - 2025-26
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Rows are clubs and columns are what opponents produce against them, split by the position the opponent plays. The league records four for a skater, center, left wing, right wing and defenseman, and every skater carries one of them all season. Hockey has no positional assignment the way football does, so this is not a matchup: it is what a club gives up in aggregate, which is a weaker but honest claim.
Opponent position
Season
Division
Every column is something the club conceded, so rank 1 is the softest — the most given up. Hockey assigns nobody to anybody, so this is what a club gives up in aggregate rather than a matchup.
| TEAM | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 VAN | 82 | 1.031 | 2.471 | 7.131 | 1281 | 3071 | 8861 |
 SEA | 82 | 0.893 | 2.282 | 6.692 | 1073 | 2753 | 8062 |
 FLA | 82 | 0.952 | 2.263 | 6.083 | 1162 | 2772 | 7443 |
Every column is something the club conceded, so rank 1 is the softest — the most given up. Hockey assigns nobody to anybody, so this is what a club gives up in aggregate rather than a matchup.
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What each club concedes to opposing centers, wings and defensemen: shots and scoring, per sixty minutes of the ice time those opponents get.