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Mason Appleton

Detroit Red Wings

Mason Appleton

DETForwardJersey number #22

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2025-26 regular season

Games played
65
Goals
6
Assists
8
Points
14

No 2026-27 games counted yet · tonight’s game is added the next morning

Playing now: NYR at DET · live game stats

How good

Among 980 forwards, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every forward who played in those seasons · Sample: 350 games

No production figure in the top quarter of his pool. Top quarter in penalty minutes, which describes his role rather than his quality.

Production

Production: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points380.30
Goals340.11
Assists440.19
Shots on goal401.25
Power-play points230.02

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits611.31
Blocked shots320.45
Penalty minutes760.52

Further right means more, not better: hits, blocked shots and penalty minutes describe a role, not quality.

What adjusted per game means — not his recorded rate
Adjusted per game is the rate each percentile was computed from: his recorded rate, weighted toward recent games and pulled toward the league average by sample size, so a short career does not read as an elite one. It sits closer to average than the rate recorded, so a skater with no points in his games can still show points per game above zero.

How he got here

Each regular season

  • 2021-22: 1.44 over 68 games
  • 2022-23: 1.73 over 41 games
  • 2023-24: 1.49 over 82 games
  • 2024-25: 1.51 over 71 games
  • 2025-26: 0.97 over 65 games
  • 2026-27 projected: 1.25
Shots on goal per game played, regular season. Filled dots are finished seasons; the dotted ring is the 2026-27 projection, the per-game rate the projections board uses. GP: games played.

What next

2026-27, projected

Full-season pace · his rate times the schedule

If he plays all 84 Detroit Red Wings games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
25.2
Goals
9.5
Assists
15.7
Shots on goal
105.0
Power-play points
1.4
Hits
109.8
Blocked shots
37.6
Penalty minutes
44.1

Based on 350 games he has played, weighted toward recent ones. It assumes he plays all 84: injuries, scratches and trades are not modelled.

How the pace is worked out — the figure the projections board ranks on

Each figure is his per-game rate, weighted toward recent games, times the 84 games on the Detroit Red Wings schedule. It is the pace the projections board ranks the league on, so the figure a reader clicked there is the one at the top of this card.

Shooting

Where he shoots, and how he finishes

Shot density · 2025-26 · open play, regular season

FewerMore attempts, up to this skater’s busiest cell

6 more attempts came from outside the offensive zone and are not in the grid.

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals against a league-average finisher, by season

In 2025-26 he scored 6 where a league-average finisher would score 5.3 from his chances: 0.7 more.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink6 G · 5.3 avg · +0.7 · 52 GP

  2. 2024-2510 G · 11.0 avg · −1.0 · 66 GP

  3. 2023-2414 G · 13.7 avg · +0.3 · 74 GP

  4. 2022-235 G · 7.8 avg · −2.8 · 38 GP

  5. 2021-228 G · 10.0 avg · −2.0 · 60 GP

  • Goals
  • A league-average finisher
What the ring counts — what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts

The shot model prices the chance of a goal on every unblocked attempt he took in open play during the regular season; shootouts and penalty shots are left out. Those chances are scaled so that, across the league, they add up to the goals actually scored that season, so the ring is what a league-average finisher would have scored from his attempts and each season is measured against its own average. The gap is his goals minus that; the table below lists the exact figures.

Finishing against the league average · open play, regular season

Finishing by season: goals against a league-average finisher on the same attempts
SeasonG
2025-265.36+0.75294
2024-2511.010−1.066149
2023-2413.714+0.374190
2022-237.85−2.83893
2021-2210.08−2.060136

G vs avg: goals minus what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts (Exp G, the model’s expected goals scaled to that season’s league-wide scoring).

Detail

The record

Regular season

Regular season, by season
SeasonGAP
2025-266568140.226313:31
2024-25711012220.3110714:50
2023-24821422360.4412216:03
2022-2341511160.397116:01
2021-2268813210.319814:53

2025-26 regular season by strength · G-A-P

Even strength
6 goals, 7 assists, 13 points
Power play
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points
Shorthanded
0 goals, 1 assist, 1 point

Penalty-shot goals are not counted here: each one leaves these a goal and a point below his regular-season totals.

Last 10 games

Last 10 games, newest first
DateOppGAHITBLKPIM
Apr 2@ PHI000020017:13
Mar 31@ PIT100041016:33
Mar 28vs PHI110040210:24
Mar 27@ BUF00000028:15
Mar 24vs OTT100010211:16
Mar 21vs BOS300020212:43
Mar 19vs MTL200040014:30
Mar 16vs CGY000040410:32
Mar 14@ DAL000001010:10
Mar 12@ TBL100000013:36
Markets · latest captured, not current

Apr 2 at Philadelphia Flyers · 7:00 PM ET

The prices posted for a game already played. Open to see them.

The model has not beaten the Pinnacle closing line: shots-on-goal ROI −0.0709 [−0.0932, −0.0467] per unit over 7,171 bets in a 2025-26 backtest of 512 games. How this was measured

Pre-game snapshotCaptured between Aug 2, 4:36 AM ET and Oct 1, 8:21 PM ET

This game’s markets: the posted line, the model’s projection and its chance of the over
MarketLineModel projectionModel chance of over
Anytime goal0.50.16%
Power-play points0.50.0Not shown
Assists, hits, blocked shots, penalty minutesNo line posted.

No probability shown for power-play points: this market’s model is not calibrated well enough to state one.