Regular season

Quinton Byfield

Los Angeles Kings · RW · #55

Top-six playerMiddle-Six Engine?Reliable minutes: 49 points and honest two-way play

HT: 6'5"
WT: 230 lb
Age: 23
Shoots: L
From: Newmarket, CAN
Draft: 2020 LAK · R1 #2

77Alpha?

Alpha sub-scores

what drives the rating · percentile vs position group

7676pctl

6363pctl

8080pctl

6969pctl

League profile

vs. forwards with 20+ GP

0.6270pctl

0.3079pctl

0.3265pctl

2.382pctl

-250pctl

1172pctl

HockeyAlpha advanced

event-derived proxies · 1,312 games analyzed

10%88pctl

3.3689pctl

0.1770pctl

Def Suppression?

0.5160pctl

Winger toolkit

vs. wingers with 20+ GP

6.854pctl

2.530pctl

0.5087pctl

1.6644pctl

2:1270pctl

1:5692pctl

On-ice impact

shift charts × our xG model · 48 GP tracked · 16h TOI

On-ice xG share (5v5)?

51.2%61pctl

On-ice goal share (5v5)?

48.3%44pctl

O-zone deployment?

46%36pctl

Usage profile

assignment difficulty · higher fill = tougher job

Competition faced?

17.8 min78pctl

Support received?

18.3 min21pctl

D-zone deployment?

54%64pctl

Micro-metrics

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

Cross-slot shots / GP?

0.1071pctl

Net-front presence / GP?

1.6587pctl

Second-chance touches / GP?

0.4474pctl

1.11×97pctl

Cross-slot suppressed?

0.25/gm36pctl

Pressure escape rate?

8.7%69pctl

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

The Blueprint

Structural Event Engine · percentile vs forwards · center = median · 1257 EV min

General Offense

6.2662

7.9352

Shot Setups/60?

0.6728

Chance Setups/60?

0.5326

Primary Contributions/60?

6.9258

Rebounds Created/60?

0.3331

Playmaking Sequences

Point Shot Setups/60?

0.0547

Center-Lane Setups/60?

0.3826

High-Danger Setups/60?

0.2436

Deflection Setups/60?

0.0036

One-Timer Setups/60?

0.0528

Offense Types

Cycle Offense/60?

1.5358

Rush Offense/60?

9.3174

Shots off HD Setups/60?

0.5736

0.6737

0.1033

Deflections/60?

1.5359

Zone Entries

Entries Started/60?

0.2981

Entries Finished/60?

0.7248

Entries w/ Chance/60?

0.2420

Entry → Chance %?

33%9

DZ Retrievals / Exits

DZ Involvements/60?

1.2961

0.4878

0.8147

Retrieval Success %?

37%78

Exit Involvements/60?

0.1486

Exit Success %?

11%87

Forechecking

2.4438

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

$6.25M

cap hit

$6.62M

Alpha-market value

overpaidmarketsurplus

C

Fair market deal (+$0.4M)

Top comparables?

nearest profiles at the same role · match = statistical fit

Player	Alpha	Archetype	Production	Cap hit	Market	Value	Match
Quinton Byfield	77	Middle-Six Engine	49 P · 79 GP	$6.25M	$6.62M	C+$0.4M	this player
Artturi Lehkonen	80	Middle-Six Engine	48 P · 70 GP	$4.50M	$7.61M	A+$3.1M	89%
Jordan Eberle	78	Middle-Six Engine	55 P · 80 GP	$4.75M	$6.95M	A+$2.2M	86%
Timo Meier	79	Sniper	44 P · 77 GP	$8.80M	$7.28M	D−$1.5M	86%
Alexis Lafrenière	77	Middle-Six Engine	57 P · 82 GP	$7.45M	$6.62M	D−$0.8M	85%

Chemistry

Top connection: Adrian Kempe · 10 goals together

Finishes from

assisters on Quinton’s goals

Creates for

goals Quinton assisted on

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

Recent form · last 10 games

7 pts · 6 G · 1 A · 28 shots in last 10Heating up(+0.6 P/GP vs prior 5)

vs UTA

0P

0G 0A

vs UTA 03-28

0G 0A · 3 shots · 19:03 TOI

vs STL

0P

0G 0A

vs STL 04-01

0G 0A · 3 shots · 20:52 TOI

vs NSH

0P

0G 0A

vs NSH 04-02

0G 0A · 2 shots · 22:07 TOI

vs TOR

2P

2G 0A

vs TOR 04-04

2G 0A · 3 shots · 21:16 TOI

vs NSH

0P

0G 0A

vs NSH 04-06

0G 0A · 2 shots · 20:52 TOI

vs VAN

0P

0G 0A

vs VAN 04-09

0G 0A · 1 shots · 18:33 TOI

vs EDM

0P

0G 0A

vs EDM 04-11

0G 0A · 1 shots · 21:01 TOI

@ SEA

2P

2G 0A

@ SEA 04-13

2G 0A · 8 shots · 20:17 TOI

@ VAN

2P

1G 1A

@ VAN 04-14

1G 1A · 3 shots · 19:19 TOI

@ CGY

1P

1G 0A

@ CGY 04-16

1G 0A · 2 shots · 21:51 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)364 events shown

The office: the inner slot - 8 of 24 goals live there

Playmaking gravity: 24 touches that produced a teammate shot within 3s

Defensive floor: 52 blocks · 14 steals inside the d-zone

NHL career · regular season

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/−
2020-21	Los Angeles Kings	6	0	1	1	1
2021-22	Los Angeles Kings	40	5	5	10	-7
2022-23	Los Angeles Kings	53	3	19	22	13
2023-24	Los Angeles Kings	80	20	35	55	19
2024-25	Los Angeles Kings	81	23	31	54	16
2025-26	Los Angeles Kings	79	24	25	49	-2
Career	1 team	339	75	116	191	40