Edgehalla
Colin Blackwell headshotDallas Stars logo

Dallas Stars

Colin Blackwell

22.8

#15Center5'8"179 lb

0.0 in 2 days
2025-26 regular season
70
GP
4
G
11
A
15
P
61
SOG
6.6% SH
11:54
TOI/GP

C · DAL · NHL id 8476278

Colin Blackwell has played 70 games for the Dallas Stars in 2025-26, scoring 4 goals and 11 assists (15 points) on 61 shots while averaging 11:54 a night (9:45 at even strength, 0:01 on the power play and 2:03 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 63% of his 5v5 minutes with Oskar Bäck and 52% with Radek Faksa over the last 10 games, and the Stars have controlled 47% of shot attempts with Blackwell on the ice (22-25 in goals, 37% offensive-zone starts). In the Stars' most recent game against MIN he was on L3 with Radek Faksa and Oskar Bäck and off the power play. He is shooting 6.6% this season against 10.0% across the 392 games in our data.

Right now

From the Apr 30 game vs MIN, detected from shift data

Line
L3
Radek FaksaOskar Bäck
Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
PK1F
Sam Steel
Last 5: L4 · L4 · L3 · L4 · L4

Deployment timeline

2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes

Usage: 19 games, 12:31 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 11 line changes.

PPLine43▲2▲3▼2▲3▼34▼3▲34▼3▲34443▲4▼40m3m7m10m13m17m20mMar 21Mar 24Mar 28Mar 31Apr 4Apr 9Apr 13Apr 18Apr 22Apr 28
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
19 games shown, 12:31 average. Line and PP unit come from where the player's ice time ranks among his teammates that night.

NHL EDGE tracking

2025-26 percentiles among skaters at his position

Source: NHL EDGE
Top speed77th7822.8 mph
Bursts 20+ mph67th6893
Hardest shot45th4684.2 mph
Offensive-zone time11th1138.6%
Distance skated51st51134.4 mi
High-danger SOG29th2912
Percentile among position peers│ tick = 3-season weighted

Season-level NHL EDGE puck and player tracking, refreshed nightly. The percentile is the league rank among skaters this season; the label at the right is the raw value.

Shot map

2025-26 · 154 attempts, 66 on goal, 4 goals

Shot map, OPP at DAL: 154 attempts, 66 on goal, 4 goals, 6.69 expected goals; best chance Colin Blackwell at 0.56 xG.

  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • Goal
  • Shot on goal
  • Missed
  • Blocked
Every attempt (goals, shots, misses and blocks), attacking toward the right (or the top on phones).

Luck

2025-26 · 70 GP · 15 points vs 13.8 expected

Luck Meter →
Hold

Last 20 games: -4. Positive means running hot (sell), negative running cold (buy).

6.6%
99.4
62.5%
G vs xG
4 / 6.7
  • • Role shrank over the last 10 games (2 demotion events): the cold spell may not be all luck.
Goals against expected goals
02468-2.7goals below expected-1.1σ10/94/13
  • Actual goals
  • Expected
  • ±1σ
  • Above expected
  • Below expected

Player analytics

Compare with another player →

2025-26 regular season. Rank is among all qualified players; the bar is his percentile among forwards. Each stat links to its explainer.

Fantasy box score

  • Games played70
  • Goals4481st
  • Assists11444th
  • Points15477th
  • Power-play points0437th
  • Shorthanded points0227th
  • Shots on goal61495th
  • Hits112144th
  • Blocked shots37368th
  • Plus/minus−2368th
  • Penalty minutes40182nd
  • Faceoffs won124164th

Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)

Transition, turnovers & faceoffs

Usage

Special teams & discipline

Luck & trend

NHL EDGE tracking

Unranked rows are below the sample minimum (20 GP, 200 five-on-five minutes, 100 draws or 10 goalie games).

Beyond the box score

2025-26 regular season · 70 of 70 games through the sequence engine

MethodLeaders
−0.012
Season net
−0.13xG

5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.

MethodLeaders
Per 100 draws
−0.113
Season
−0.32G
43.2%287 draws

Wins by zone: OZ 18-14 · NZ 51-40 · DZ 55-109

MethodLeaders
Per 60
0.97
Attempts
11
0.027

5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.

MethodLeaders
Season
−0.61G
Per 60
−0.044
Drawn / taken
17 / 20minors

MethodLeaders
46.1%
50.0%
46.2%
Transition CF/60
3.4
Turnovers won/60
22.0
Turnovers lost/60
16.0

5-on-5 while he is on the ice.

MethodLeaders
  • More of his shots than the league
  • Fewer
61 shots on goal, 4 goals, all situations
AreaHis shareLeagueG
Outside R0%4%0
Outside L8%4%0
Crease0%3%0
R Corner3%0%0
L Point3%5%0
Center Point7%9%0
Low Slot25%23%3

Role changes

Notable promotions, demotions and ice-time swings from Line Watch

All alerts →

How his goals happened

19 goals since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation

Method
Goal anatomy
GamePlayEntryPassesShot mphNotesReplay
Apr 9, 2026 vs MINForecheck turnover—053.6—
Mar 2, 2026 @ VANForecheck turnover—029.4—
Nov 20, 2025 @ VANRushpass252.9—
Nov 13, 2025 @ MTLOdd-man rushloose23.91-on-0
Apr 21, 2025 vs COLReboundcarry033.23-on-2, rebound
Apr 14, 2025 @ DETDump and chasedump133.6one-timer
Feb 4, 2025 @ ANAOdd-man rushpass233.41-on-0, one-timer
Dec 23, 2024 @ UTAOdd-man rushcarry046.52-on-1
Dec 18, 2024 vs TORForecheck turnover—2*9.2—
Nov 27, 2024 @ CHIRebound—010.3rebound
Oct 17, 2024 @ WSHOdd-man rushcarry031.51-on-0
Mar 10, 2024 vs ARIRushcarry052.6—
Mar 10, 2024 vs ARIRebound—016.1rebound
Mar 10, 2024 vs ARIForecheck turnover—039.7—
Feb 23, 2024 vs WPGOdd-man rushcarry125.41-on-0
Feb 21, 2024 vs PHIOdd-man rushcarry241.42-on-1
Jan 7, 2024 vs CGYDump and chasedump048.43-on-2
Jan 7, 2024 vs CGYOdd-man rushpass349.52-on-0
Jan 4, 2024 @ NYROdd-man rushpass026.52-on-1

* includes a royal-road (cross-slot) pass. Derived from NHL EDGE puck and player tracking.

Linemates

2025-26 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Blackwell

TeammatePosGPShareCF% togetherGF% togetherCF% Blackwell apartCF% mate apart
Radek FaksaC49323:5744%49.1%43% (9-12)39.1% 136:1244.3% 137:22
Lian BichselD53221:3230%46.4%71% (10-4)49.0% 298:1747.5% 556:46
Esa LindellD72213:0529%48.9%44% (8-10)46.2% 484:5248.8% 1041:37
Thomas HarleyD63204:0228%48.4%29% (5-12)47.1% 408:2648.4% 996:18
Justin HryckowianC40203:3828%47.7%45% (5-6)50.0% 205:4945.6% 256:14
Oskar BäckC35187:1925%48.9%46% (6-7)44.2% 150:3146.2% 167:53
Miro HeiskanenD66177:4524%53.5%36% (4-7)45.4% 466:4049.3% 976:27
Alexander PetrovicD44165:3623%38.0%50% (6-6)46.8% 256:2444.1% 486:05
Ilya LyubushkinD49164:0022%41.6%67% (4-2)48.3% 303:2042.6% 525:45
Nils LundkvistD45136:2519%50.5%42% (5-7)49.1% 306:2850.1% 573:37
Sam SteelC38128:1217%45.9%14% (1-6)46.8% 239:1246.5% 365:15
Adam ErneLW23128:0817%54.6%57% (4-3)40.3% 101:0240.1% 99:49
Nathan BastianRW1384:4812%55.3%60% (6-4)33.8% 38:5839.3% 34:53
Tyler MyersD2082:2511%49.3%57% (4-3)52.7% 124:1744.7% 221:50

Game log

76 games in 2025-26, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Apr 30PO@ MINL 2-5000-110200%7:125:12—2:00
Apr 28POvs MINL 2-40000002050%8:377:30—1:07
Apr 25PO@ MINOTL 2-3000-10041100%16:5214:10—2:42
Apr 22PO@ MINW 4-300001010100%17:5312:44—5:09
Apr 20POvs MINW 4-2000+1205067%9:516:45—2:40
Apr 18POvs MINL 1-6000-1103050%11:038:13—2:38
Apr 13@ TORW 6-5000000110%12:3411:10—1:24
Apr 11vs NYRW 2-00000020033%13:439:100:054:28
Apr 9vs MINW 5-4112+2200175%9:567:46—1:52
Apr 7vs CGYW 4-300000011100%13:2511:29—1:56
Apr 4vs COLL 0-2000000400%12:0111:02—0:59
Apr 2vs WPGW 3-000000142150%10:358:08—2:27
Mar 31@ BOSL 3-6000-1201060%13:2211:11—2:11
Mar 29@ PHIOTL 1-20000000033%13:2510:56—2:29
Mar 28@ PITW 6-301103222—15:3612:15—3:08
Mar 26@ NYIL 1-2000-1000050%12:5110:07—2:38
Mar 24vs NJDL 4-6000-1202160%13:5113:04—0:47
Mar 22vs VGKL 2-3011+1003120%13:5411:21—2:33
Mar 21@ MINOTL 1-20000204033%12:3110:14—2:17
Mar 18@ COLW 2-10000006117%13:0511:53—1:12

Season splits by strength

2025-26 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations70832:2911:5455481440.5%39.5%246365243938%22.641.224%
Even strength70682:389:4552759147.1%47.1%227243232548%20.723.836%
5v570680:509:4452558947.1%47.0%225241222547%20.323.737%
Power play70:350:0500——0000—0.00.0100%
Penalty kill69143:582:052320810.0%11.8%181121137%1.916.22%
4v569143:582:052320810.0%11.8%181121137%1.916.22%
5v6, opponent net empty134:130:191146.7%0.0%09010%0.01.10%

Career by season

Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2025-26PlayoffsDAL6000-2050.0%17111:55
2025-26DAL7041115-240616.6%1123711:54
2024-25PlayoffsDAL11101-56166.3%26511:02
2024-25DAL6361117+416639.5%842311:34
2023-24CHI448412-210889.1%452214:30
2022-23CHI532810-166533.8%491711:48
2021-22PlayoffsTOR7112-20714.3%1227:12
2021-22TOR, SEA581010200147713.0%912411:56
2020-21NYR47121022+2156418.8%451914:00
2019-20NSH273710+710319.7%432310:57
2018-19NSH6000-1250.0%1039:44

Colin Blackwell news

Headlines via LineupExperts. Links open the original publisher.

On-ice and deployment numbers are derived by Edgehalla from NHL play-by-play and shift data. Tracking percentiles are from NHL EDGE. Data updates after every game.