Zachary Aston-Reese
Philadelphia Flyers · LW · shoots L · 32
Contract, value & projections
- Paid
- 0.8% of the cap · through 2027–28 · the contract
- Worth
- 1.0% of the cap · Cup: paid under the market
- Next
- Not on file (not projected yet)
- Drive (3 seasons)
- Too few minutes to judge (fewer than the minimum 5v5 hours)
Tonight PHI do not play · next league date 2026-10-23 · latest move: The Philadelphia Flyers waived F Zach Aston-Reese. (2026-09-23)
Production and deployment
Official split unavailable
The live official report did not return a matching player row. The dated roster identity and lane screen remain available; production stays unknown.
Organizational context
LW regulars in PHI
The all-team median is . PHI’s farm system sits #17 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?
White noise · as of 2026-10-18 · social 2026-10-18
Zachary Aston-Reese is quiet (24th percentile); attention is up on the usual
How much he is being talked about: the league's own stories tagged to him, daily pageviews of his Wikipedia article against his own 90-day baseline, posts naming him on the connected networks (Bluesky), and the roster moves and listings that make noise. A measure of attention. Whether it affects a player is his business, and a question the history will let us test later.
Social: .
Contract · PHI
cap hit
2026–27 through 2027–28. Certified
Role question › Costs more per point than the position median and is below the line on five-on-five creation and penalty-kill use. Either the contract or the deployment needs a look.
Measures · 2025–26 · 80% rank ranges
Where Zachary Aston-Reese ranks, and how sure we are
Each rank is the 10th to 90th percentile of his place when every skater's value is redrawn 1,000 times from his own band. One season rarely separates a player from the dozens around him.
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
- #441#289 to #569 of 744
Likely a top-500 skater; anywhere from 289th to 569th.
In 0 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
0 of 20 dots sit above zero (the average regular). Each dot is one equally likely outcome (1 in 20). Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Advanced scoring · 2025-26
Goals, assists and plus/minus, weighted by what they changed
Every goal counts the win probability it added, scaled so the average goal is 1.0: a late tying goal counts several, a goal at 6-1 or into an empty net late counts little. Plus/minus also credits the players on the ice when the goal's sequence began.
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.
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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Career arc ·
Zachary Aston-Reese, season by season
Each dot is one season. The amber bar is what his earlier seasons and his age predicted for that season (), so a dot far above its bar is a season the numbers did not see coming. The shaded band is where most players at his position sit at each age.
Position band: .
What the numbers found
No shipped label applies. A label is a measured finding about a run of seasons (for example, a spike that came back to the old level), and it is shown only for label types that passed their test on held-out seasons.
Projection at the draft
No draft projection: projections exist for players drafted from 2005 on who have season lines on file.
Every season
| Season | Age | GP | Level | Expected (80%) |
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Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-10-18
Roster moves · as of 2026-10-17
Latest club announcements
Waivers, claims, injured reserve, the minors and signings as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). No cause is read into an injured-reserve placement.
2026-09-23 · placed on waivers · The Philadelphia Flyers waived F Zach Aston-Reese.
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.
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at
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:
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Nicolas DeslauriersL · matched at ages | ||
| Justin DowlingC · matched at ages | ||
| Scott SabourinR · matched at ages | ||
| Garnet HathawayR · matched at ages | ||
| Sean KuralyC · matched at ages | ||
| Tyler PitlickC · matched at ages | ||
| Nic DowdC · matched at ages | ||
| Casey CizikasC · matched at ages |
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.
Fit components (description)
Zachary Aston-Reese: role, system and coach, as measured
What the shift charts say about Zachary Aston-Reese's role and his club's game, and what the rules allow. No fit number is shown: fit: not yet validated.
Rules that travel with him: blocked. Club-specific rules (50 contracts, 23-man roster, the two front offices) are on each team's Moves tab.
- Trade protection: Not on file. clause not confirmed. CBA Art. 11.8(a)
- Waiver exemption: blocked. signed at 22: past 3 seasons or 70 NHL games (now season 11, 416 games). CBA Art. 13.4
as of 2026-04-16