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Parker Wotherspoon

Vegas Golden Knights

Parker Wotherspoon

VGKDefenceJersey number #29

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2026-27 regular season

Games played
1
Goals
0
Assists
0
Points
0

As of Oct 2, 6:09 AM ET · updated each morning

How good

Among 509 defencemen, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every defenceman who played in those seasons · Sample: 205 games

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

Production

Production: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points540.29
Goals110.03
Assists730.26
Shots on goal200.86
Power-play points40.00

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits911.91
Blocked shots731.38
Penalty minutes800.66

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

  • 2022-23: 0.08 over 12 games
  • 2023-24: 0.20 over 41 games
  • 2024-25: 0.13 over 55 games
  • 2025-26: 0.38 over 80 games
  • 2026-27 to date: 0.00 over 1 games
  • 2026-27 projected: 0.29
Points per game played, regular season. Filled dots are finished seasons; the smaller dot is the season to date; 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 Vegas Golden Knights games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
24.3
Goals
2.5
Assists
21.8
Shots on goal
71.8
Power-play points
0.1
Hits
160.3
Blocked shots
116.2
Penalty minutes
55.3

Based on 205 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 Vegas Golden Knights 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

10 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 3 where a league-average finisher would score 2.5 from his chances: 0.5 more.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink3 G · 2.5 avg · +0.5 · 53 GP

  2. 2024-251 G · 1.5 avg · −0.5 · 36 GP

  3. 2023-240 G · 0.7 avg · −0.7 · 25 GP

  4. 2022-230 G · 0.2 avg · −0.2 · 8 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
2025-262.53+0.55399
2024-251.51−0.53664
2023-240.70−0.72543
2022-230.20−0.2812

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
2026-2710000.00120:08
2025-2680327300.387020:10
2024-25551670.134418:02
2023-24410880.203217:43
2022-23120110.081013:20

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

Even strength
3 goals, 25 assists, 28 points
Power play
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points
Shorthanded
0 goals, 2 assists, 2 points

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
Sep 29vs CHI100010220:08
Apr 29@ PHI, playoff game100042029:54
Apr 27vs PHI, playoff game101013021:03
Apr 25@ PHI, playoff game100032023:49
Apr 22@ PHI, playoff game100054019:37
Apr 20vs PHI, playoff game0000301218:40
Apr 18vs PHI, playoff game000041019:34
Apr 12@ WSH000012019:52
Apr 9@ NJD101011021:40
Apr 5vs FLA000020718:27

PO = playoff game.

Markets · tonight

Oct 2 vs Anaheim Ducks · 10:00 PM ET

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

Lineup unconfirmed

Pre-game snapshotCaptured Oct 2, 7:52 PM ET· not updated during play

This game’s markets: the posted line and the model’s projection
MarketLineModel projection
Assists, shots on goalNo line posted.