
Ty Dellandrea's time on ice per game for San Jose in 2026-27 finishes below 13:00, down from 14:11 in 46 games in 2025-26.
San Jose scores 2.0 or fewer goals per sixty minutes at even strength with Zack Ostapchuk on the ice across the club's first 25 games of 2026-27, no better than the 1.6 he posted across 59 games in 2025-26.
Kiefer Sherwood averages under 1:45 a night on the power play across San Jose's first 20 games of 2026-27.
Tyler Toffoli scores fewer than 15 even-strength goals for San Jose in the 2026-27 regular season.
Collin Graf is not among San Jose's top eight forwards in total power-play time on ice across the club's first 20 regular-season games of 2026-27.
No San Jose skater spent a larger share of his ice time on the power play last season than Tyler Toffoli, who gave 19.6 percent of his minutes to the man advantage across 79 games. That is the half of his game that has not moved in two years: 232.9 power-play minutes and 15 power-play points in 2025-26, against 240.8 minutes and 15 points the season before. His goal total went 30 to 19 over the same stretch, and all eleven of the missing goals were even-strength goals. Professor Hockey's August 28 opening-night units leave him off both, a call he flagged himself as the one he is least confident in.

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