Regular season

Tage Thompson

Buffalo Sabres · C · #72

First-line playerTransition Engine?ZEIS 5.61 with 222 rush shots - turns defense into offense

HT: 6'6"
WT: 220 lb
Age: 28
Shoots: R
From: Phoenix, USA
Draft: 2016 STL · R1 #26

89Alpha?

Alpha sub-scores

what drives the rating · percentile vs position group

9090pctl

8484pctl

9292pctl

7575pctl

League profile

vs. forwards with 20+ GP

1.0093pctl

0.4996pctl

0.5188pctl

3.497pctl

-634pctl

2492pctl

HockeyAlpha advanced

event-derived proxies · 1,312 games analyzed

12.9%96pctl

5.6199pctl

0.2892pctl

Def Suppression?

0.6574pctl

Center toolkit

vs. centers with 20+ GP

45.5%24pctl

D-Zone FO %?

44.4%31pctl

10.668pctl

0.4170pctl

3:3093pctl

0:0323pctl

On-ice impact

shift charts × our xG model · 51 GP tracked · 17h TOI

On-ice xG share (5v5)?

49.2%46pctl

On-ice goal share (5v5)?

55.1%74pctl

O-zone deployment?

59%86pctl

Usage profile

assignment difficulty · higher fill = tougher job

Competition faced?

17.8 min78pctl

Support received?

18.4 min19pctl

D-zone deployment?

41%14pctl

Micro-metrics

Structural Metric Model · sequences, geometry & leverage from every shot

Cross-slot shots / GP?

0.1177pctl

Net-front presence / GP?

1.7990pctl

Second-chance touches / GP?

0.4880pctl

0.97×36pctl

Cross-slot suppressed?

0.20/gm60pctl

Pressure escape rate?

9.4%80pctl

2025-26 regular season · Percentile beams: fill = league percentile, tick = league median · hockeyalpha.com

The Blueprint

Structural Event Engine · percentile vs forwards · center = median · 1271 EV min

General Offense

8.7490

10.6784

Shot Setups/60?

1.5688

Chance Setups/60?

1.1885

Primary Contributions/60?

10.2990

Rebounds Created/60?

0.8587

Playmaking Sequences

Point Shot Setups/60?

0.0026

Center-Lane Setups/60?

1.0989

High-Danger Setups/60?

0.4775

Deflection Setups/60?

0.0983

One-Timer Setups/60?

0.1458

Offense Types

Cycle Offense/60?

2.2285

Rush Offense/60?

12.1890

Shots off HD Setups/60?

0.6647

0.7141

0.1961

Deflections/60?

0.5210

Zone Entries

Entries Started/60?

0.3384

Entries Finished/60?

0.9066

Entries w/ Chance/60?

0.4751

Entry → Chance %?

53%28

DZ Retrievals / Exits

DZ Involvements/60?

0.7118

0.2443

0.4716

Retrieval Success %?

33%72

Exit Involvements/60?

0.0033

Exit Success %?

0%30

Forechecking

2.4137

Dump-In Recoveries/60?

0.0042

Derived from event sequences in public play-by-play data - the ? on each metric explains exactly how it's computed. · hockeyalpha.com

Contract & market

Contract value?

beta · cap data: CapWages

$7.14M

cap hit

$10.83M

Alpha-market value

overpaidmarketsurplus

A

Team-friendly deal (+$3.7M)

Top comparables?

nearest profiles at the same role · match = statistical fit

Player	Alpha	Archetype	Production	Cap hit	Market	Value	Match
Tage Thompson	89	Transition Engine	81 P · 81 GP	$7.14M	$10.83M	A+$3.7M	this player
Wyatt Johnston	90	Top-Six Threat	86 P · 82 GP	$8.40M	$11.21M	A+$2.8M	95%
Nick Schmaltz	87	Two-Way Force	74 P · 82 GP	$5.85M	$10.09M	A++$4.2M	88%
Nico Hischier	85	Top-Six Threat	66 P · 82 GP	$7.25M	$9.36M	A+$2.1M	86%
Nick Suzuki	91	Two-Way Force	101 P · 82 GP	$7.88M	$12.02M	A++$4.1M	85%

Chemistry

Top connection: Peyton Krebs · 16 goals together

Finishes from

assisters on Tage’s goals

Creates for

goals Tage assisted on

From official goal credits - scorer + assists on every goal, all season.

Recent form · last 10 games

9 pts · 4 G · 5 A · 33 shots in last 10Cooling off(-0.6 P/GP vs prior 5)

vs BOS

2P

0G 2A

vs BOS 03-25

0G 2A · 3 shots · 18:44 TOI

vs DET

1P

1G 0A

vs DET 03-27

1G 0A · 4 shots · 21:16 TOI

vs SEA

1P

0G 1A

vs SEA 03-28

0G 1A · 5 shots · 24:21 TOI

vs NYI

2P

1G 1A

vs NYI 03-31

1G 1A · 3 shots · 21:31 TOI

@ OTT

0P

0G 0A

@ OTT 04-02

0G 0A · 2 shots · 17:12 TOI

@ WSH

0P

0G 0A

@ WSH 04-04

0G 0A · 5 shots · 19:20 TOI

vs TBL

0P

0G 0A

vs TBL 04-06

0G 0A · 1 shots · 17:56 TOI

@ NYR

1P

0G 1A

@ NYR 04-08

0G 1A · 2 shots · 22:18 TOI

vs CBJ

0P

0G 0A

vs CBJ 04-09

0G 0A · 2 shots · 16:47 TOI

@ CHI

2P

2G 0A

@ CHI 04-13

2G 0A · 6 shots · 17:31 TOI

Tile tint = points that night · underline = shot volume (full bar = 8+ shots) · oldest on the left

The Territory

attacking → · every recorded touch, normalized to one end

Goal On goal Missed/blocked▲ takeaway▽ giveaway■ hit＋ block◯ faceoff dot (size = wins)815 events shown

The office: the inner slot - 10 of 40 goals live there

Playmaking gravity: 40 touches that produced a teammate shot within 3s

Defensive floor: 55 blocks · 8 steals inside the d-zone

NHL career · regular season

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/−
2017-18	St. Louis Blues	41	3	6	9	-12
2018-19	Buffalo Sabres	65	7	5	12	-22
2019-20	Buffalo Sabres	1	0	0	0	0
2020-21	Buffalo Sabres	38	8	6	14	-6
2021-22	Buffalo Sabres	78	38	30	68	-17
2022-23	Buffalo Sabres	78	47	47	94	4
2023-24	Buffalo Sabres	71	29	27	56	-1
2024-25	Buffalo Sabres	76	44	28	72	-2
2025-26	Buffalo Sabres	81	40	41	81	-6
Career	2 teams	529	216	190	406	-62