Returning regular · 2025-26
Josh Mahura
Seattle Kraken · LD · L shot · age 28 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- SEA
- Lane
- LD
- Age
- 28
Production and deployment
How the points were built
Official NHL 2025–26 regular-season reports. A missing split stays “—”; it is never converted to zero.
Organizational context
4 LD regulars in SEA
The all-team median is 4. SEA’s farm system ranks #8 in the maintained two-board consensus.
Questions a GM still has to answer
- How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
- Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
- Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
- What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative and Cup-window effect complete the argument?
Contract · SEA
$0.91M cap hit
2025–26 through 2026–27. Certified
Cup signal › Costs more per point than the position median, but earns it with five-on-five creation or penalty-kill work.
- He kills penalties (1:12 a night), which points do not capture.
- Defencemen are compared only with defencemen. Points understate defensive value, so the on-ice impact measures on each player page carry the rest: the expected goals created and allowed while he plays, and the goals whose sequence began on his shift. The impact model in a later phase addresses that.
- At 0.9% of the cap, almost any NHL production is surplus.
- His team shot 12.4% with him on the ice at five-on-five, well above the league norm near 8–9%. Some of the scoring is likely to regress.
- 5 real points at this cap hit would pass the cost test (he had 3).
CapOrCup measures · 2025-26
What happens while he plays
Measured from the league's play-by-play and shift charts, not from the scoresheet. Expected goals are counted for every player on the ice, and a goal is credited to whoever was on the ice when the sequence began, including players who had changed off before it was scored.
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at 24 to 27
Careers are compared as league-adjusted points per game by age, over the same ages. The comparables below are the closest lines, and what matters is the spread of what they did next, not any single name.
This player so far: age 13 AMBHL 0.76 → age 14 AMBHL 0.88 → age 15 Minor-BC 1.08 → age 16 WHL 0.16 → age 18 WHL 0.85 → age 19 WHL 1.15 → age 20 NHL 0.29 → age 21 NHL 0.36 → age 22 NHL 0.31 → age 23 NHL 0.18 → age 24 NHL 0.20 → age 25 NHL 0.30 → age 26 NHL 0.14 → age 27 NHL 0.13
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Darren RaddyshD · matched at ages 24, 25, 26, 27 | 0.03 | age 28 NHL 0.40 → age 29 NHL 0.51 → age 30 NHL 0.96 |
| Olli MaattaD · matched at ages 24, 25, 26, 27 | 0.04 | age 28 NHL 0.29 → age 29 NHL 0.25 → age 30 NHL 0.26 → age 31 NHL 0.04 |
| Luke SchennD · matched at ages 24, 25, 26, 27 | 0.04 | age 28 NHL 0.11 → age 29 NHL 0.11 → age 30 NHL 0.12 → age 31 NHL 0.10 → age 32 NHL 0.26 |
| Trevor van RiemsdykD · matched at ages 24, 25, 26, 27 | 0.04 | age 28 NHL 0.16 → age 29 NHL 0.15 → age 30 NHL 0.24 → age 31 NHL 0.31 → age 32 NHL 0.20 |
| Brett KulakD · matched at ages 24, 25, 26, 27 | 0.05 | age 28 NHL 0.23 → age 29 NHL 0.24 → age 30 NHL 0.20 → age 31 NHL 0.30 → age 32 NHL 0.07 |
| Andreas EnglundD · matched at ages 24, 26, 27 | 0.06 | age 28 NHL 0.12 → age 29 NHL 0.09 → age 30 AHL 0.11 |
| Erik GudbransonD · matched at ages 24, 25, 26, 27 | 0.06 | age 28 NHL 0.20 → age 29 NHL 0.08 → age 30 NHL 0.22 → age 31 NHL 0.19 → age 32 NHL 0.33 |
| Alexander PetrovicD · matched at ages 24, 25, 26, 27 | 0.06 | age 28 AHL 0.17 → age 29 AHL 0.32 → age 30 AHL 0.12 → age 31 AHL 0.17 → age 32 AHL 0.14 |
Reading it
If most comparables became NHL regulars and their later peak sits well above this player's current line, the numbers say there is room to grow. If most did not, the numbers say the odds are against it. Either way it is what the data shows, not a name chosen to flatter.
Goal archive ·
Every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Availability
Games missed
The NHL publishes no injury feed. This counts games his club played while he did not dress, for any reason: injury, illness, a healthy scratch, a suspension or a trade gap. No cause is claimed.
NHL EDGE tracking · 2025-26
Speed, shot and ice
From the NHL's own player-tracking data. Percentiles are the NHL's: the share of the league below this player.