RW · SJS · NHL id 8482206
Ethan Cardwell has played 7 games for the San Jose Sharks in 2025-26, scoring 1 goal and 0 assists (1 points) on 6 shots while averaging 11:56 a night (11:24 at even strength, 0:09 on the power play and 0:17 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 73% of his 5v5 minutes with Ty Dellandrea and 53% with Jeff Skinner over the last 7 games, and the Sharks have controlled 43% of shot attempts with Cardwell on the ice (2-5 in goals, 35% offensive-zone starts). In the Sharks' most recent game against VGK he was on L4 with Jeff Skinner and Ty Dellandrea and off the power play; dropped to L4 (from L3) in the last game. He is shooting 16.7% this season against 18.2% across the 13 games in our data.
Right now
From the Dec 23 game vs VGK, detected from shift data
Deployment timeline
2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes
Usage: 3 games, 11:14 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 1 line changes.
- Even strength
- Power play
- Penalty kill
- 5-game average
- Did not play
- ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
NHL EDGE tracking
2025-26 percentiles among skaters at his position
Only 7 GP in 2025-26: NHL EDGE percentiles are noisy before about 15-20 games.
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 · 19 attempts, 6 on goal, 1 goal
Shot map, OPP at SJS: 19 attempts, 6 on goal, 1 goal, 0.83 expected goals; best chance Ethan Cardwell at 0.20 xG.
- Even strength
- Power play
- Penalty kill
- Goal
- Shot on goal
- Missed
- Blocked
Luck
2025-26 · 7 GP · 1 points vs 1.5 expected
- 16.7%
- 97.5
- 50.0%
- G vs xG
- 1 / 0.8
- • Only 7 games: treat the meter as a hint.
- 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 played7
- Goals1
- Assists0
- Points1
- Shots on goal6
- Hits9
- Blocked shots1
- Plus/minus−3
- Penalty minutes2
Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)
- Corsi (CF%)43.3%
- Fenwick (FF%)38.0%
- Sequence xG (sxGF%)30.6%
Transition, turnovers & faceoffs
- Turnover Ledger /60−0.125
Usage
- Ice time per game11:56
- Offensive-zone start %35.0%
Special teams & discipline
Luck & trend
- On-ice PDO975
- Luck Meter−9456th of 828
NHL EDGE tracking
- Hardest shot85.0
- Offensive-zone time39.2%
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 · 7 of 7 games through the sequence engine
- −0.045
- Season net
- −0.06xG
5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.
- Per 60
- 2.28
- Attempts
- 3
- 0.168
5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.
How his goals happened
2 goals since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation
| Game | Play | Entry | Passes | Shot mph | Notes | Replay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 2025 @ SEA | Dump and chase | dump | 0 | 56.0 | 4-on-2, one-timer | |
| Nov 29, 2024 vs SEA | Rush | carry | 2 | 51.4 | — |
* 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 Cardwell
| Teammate | Pos | GP | Share | CF% together | GF% together | CF% Cardwell apart | CF% mate apart | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ty Dellandrea | C | 7 | 57:38 | 73% | 41.5% | 20% (1-4) | 47.7% 21:12 | 37.8% 25:04 |
| Jeff Skinner | C | 6 | 41:55 | 53% | 46.1% | 17% (1-5) | 41.8% 25:57 | 44.4% 22:28 |
| Mario Ferraro | D | 7 | 24:52 | 32% | 51.8% | 0% (0-1) | 38.3% 53:58 | 49.3% 87:43 |
| Shakir Mukhamadullin | D | 6 | 23:31 | 30% | 45.5% | 33% (1-2) | 42.0% 45:12 | 47.3% 58:13 |
| Sam Dickinson | D | 4 | 20:50 | 26% | 43.8% | 33% (1-2) | 46.9% 22:43 | 55.2% 37:58 |
| Dmitry Orlov | D | 7 | 20:41 | 26% | 45.2% | 0% (0-1) | 42.6% 58:09 | 45.2% 103:07 |
| Vincent Desharnais | D | 4 | 18:43 | 24% | 48.4% | 100% (1-0) | 47.2% 26:59 | 44.2% 25:55 |
| John Klingberg | D | 7 | 18:27 | 23% | 51.4% | 0% (0-1) | 40.9% 60:23 | 51.9% 106:36 |
| Timothy Liljegren | D | 5 | 16:26 | 21% | 21.1% | — (0-0) | 53.9% 42:07 | 45.3% 66:25 |
| Collin Graf | RW | 1 | 11:09 | 14% | 43.5% | — (0-0) | 75.0% 2:00 | 40.0% 2:06 |
| Adam Gaudette | C | 2 | 10:48 | 14% | 26.3% | 100% (1-0) | 63.6% 11:48 | 55.6% 8:44 |
| Vincent Iorio | D | 2 | 8:37 | 11% | 33.3% | 50% (1-1) | 34.3% 15:02 | 61.3% 19:45 |
| Macklin Celebrini | C | 4 | 7:48 | 10% | 43.8% | — (0-0) | 38.7% 39:48 | 52.5% 64:13 |
| Alexander Wennberg | C | 3 | 6:09 | 8% | 42.9% | 100% (1-0) | 38.0% 26:49 | 45.0% 37:29 |
Game log
7 games in 2025-26, newest first
| Date | Opp | Result | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | HIT | BLK | EV | PP | PK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23 | @ VGK | L 2-7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 9:48 | 9:38 | — | 0:10 |
| Dec 18 | vs DAL | L 3-5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 11:22 | 10:58 | — | — |
| Dec 16 | vs CGY | W 6-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 12:56 | 12:41 | — | 0:15 |
| Nov 8 | vs FLA | W 3-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 10:28 | 10:07 | — | 0:21 |
| Nov 7 | vs WPG | W 2-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 11:38 | 11:38 | — | — |
| Nov 5 | @ SEA | W 6-1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 12:14 | 10:48 | — | 1:16 |
| Nov 2 | vs DET | OTL 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 15:05 | 14:01 | 1:04 | — |
Season splits by strength
2025-26 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data
| Strength | GP | TOI/GP | SA | GF | GA | GF% | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 7 | 83:31 | 11:56 | 70 | 92 | 43.2% | 38.3% | 27 | 50 | 2 | 5 | 29% | 2.2 | 5.1 | 33% |
| Even strength | 7 | 79:51 | 11:24 | 65 | 87 | 42.8% | 37.3% | 22 | 45 | 2 | 5 | 29% | 1.9 | 4.8 | 35% |
| 5v5 | 7 | 78:50 | 11:16 | 65 | 85 | 43.3% | 38.0% | 22 | 43 | 2 | 5 | 29% | 1.9 | 4.3 | 35% |
| Power play | 1 | 1:04 | 1:04 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% | 100.0% | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0% |
| Penalty kill | 4 | 2:02 | 0:31 | 1 | 5 | 16.7% | 16.7% | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0 | 0.3 | — |
| 4v5 | 4 | 2:02 | 0:31 | 1 | 5 | 16.7% | 16.7% | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0 | 0.3 | — |
Career by season
Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | HIT | BLK | TOI/GP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | SJS | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 2 | 6 | 16.7% | 9 | 1 | 11:56 |
| 2024-25 | SJS | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 2 | 5 | 20.0% | 8 | 3 | 11:32 |
Ethan Cardwell news
- Sharks place three on waivers, including Ethan Cardwell, as camp roster is slashedSanta Cruz Sentinel
- 3 Takeaways From the Sharks’ Preseason Loss to the DucksThe Hockey Writers
- Ethan Cardwell Bio, Awards & Draft InfoNHL.com
- Ethan Cardwell HomeNHL.com
- No. 19 Ethan Cardwell: It's now or neverFear the Fin
- Sharks Sign Ethan Cardwell to One-Year ExtensionThe Hockey News
- Ethan Cardwell News: Inks one-year extensionRotoWire
- Sharks re-sign forward Ethan Cardwell to one-year contractSportsnet.ca
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.