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Regular season

Charle-Edouard D'Astous

Tampa Bay Lightning · D · #51
Third-pair DSteady Blueliner?74 blocks across 70 games of regular duty
HT
6'2"
WT
211 lb
Age
28
Shoots
L
From
Rimouski, CAN
73Alpha?

Alpha sub-scores

what drives the rating · percentile vs position group
Scoring?
6464pctl
Playmaking?
7575pctl
Transition?
6262pctl
Defense?
4545pctl

League profile

vs. defensemen with 20+ GP
Points / GP?
0.4175pctl
Goals / GP?
0.0969pctl
Assists / GP?
0.3377pctl
Shots / GP?
1.152pctl
Plus/Minus?
-434pctl
PP Points?
267pctl

HockeyAlpha advanced

event-derived proxies · 1,312 games analyzed
xG Share?
2.2%21pctl
ZEIS?
1.8454pctl
PSPL?
0.1873pctl
Def Suppression?
0.3338pctl

Defenseman toolkit

vs. defensemen with 20+ GP
Blocks / GP?
1.0626pctl
Blocks / 60?
3.3824pctl
Hits / 60?
4.473pctl
Take : Give?
0.3376pctl
PP TOI / GP?
0:5768pctl
PK TOI / GP?
0:2617pctl

On-ice impact

shift charts × our xG model · 44 GP tracked · 14h TOI

Usage profile

assignment difficulty · higher fill = tougher job
Competition faced?
17.2 min34pctl
Support received?
16.4 min79pctl

Micro-metrics

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

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

The Blueprint

Structural Event Engine · percentile vs defensemen · center = median · 1215 EV min

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

$0.78M

cap hit

$5.74M

Alpha-market value

overpaidmarketsurplus

A+

Massive surplus value (+$5.0M)

Top comparables?

nearest profiles at the same role · match = statistical fit
PlayerAlphaCap hitValueMatch
Charle-Edouard D'Astous73$0.78MA++$5.0Mthis player
Nick Blankenburg72--86%
Mattias Ekholm76$6.25MC+$0.5M83%
Damon Severson76$6.25MC+$0.5M83%
Sean Durzi76$6.00MC+$0.7M83%

Chemistry

Top connection: Nikita Kucherov · 6 goals together

Recent form · last 10 games

3 pts · 1 G · 2 A · 15 shots in last 10Cooling off(-0.6 P/GP vs prior 5)

vs NSH

1P

0G 1A

vs MTL

0P

0G 0A

vs PIT

1P

0G 1A

vs BOS

1P

1G 0A

@ BUF

0P

0G 0A

@ OTT

0P

0G 0A

@ MTL

0P

0G 0A

@ BOS

0P

0G 0A

vs DET

0P

0G 0A

vs NYR

0P

0G 0A

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

attacking →← defending
Goal On goal Missed/blocked▲ takeaway▽ giveaway■ hit+ block◯ faceoff dot (size = wins)303 events shown

The office: the high slot - 2 of 6 goals live there

Playmaking gravity: 25 touches that produced a teammate shot within 3s

Defensive floor: 74 blocks · 8 steals inside the d-zone

NHL career · regular season

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/−
2025-26Tampa Bay Lightning7062329-4
Career1 team7062329-4