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New York Rangers

Drew Fortescue

#45Defenseman6'1"187 lb

+3.1 in 3 days
2025-26 regular season
9
GP
0
G
2
A
2
P
3
SOG
0.0% SH
14:51
TOI/GP

D · NYR · NHL id 8484169

Drew Fortescue has played 9 games for the New York Rangers in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots while averaging 14:51 a night (14:37 at even strength, 0:10 on the power play and 0:02 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 80% of his 5v5 minutes with Braden Schneider and 34% with Vincent Trocheck over the last 9 games, and the Rangers have controlled 45% of shot attempts with Fortescue on the ice (8-4 in goals, 46% offensive-zone starts). In the Rangers' most recent game against TBL he was on D2 with Braden Schneider and off the power play.

Right now

From the Apr 15 game vs TBL, detected from shift data

Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
No PK unit
Last 5: D3 · D1 · D3 · D3 · D3

Deployment timeline

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

Usage: 9 games, 14:50 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 3 line changes.

PPLine223▼331▲3▼330m3m7m10m13m17m20mMar 27Mar 29Mar 31Apr 2Apr 4Apr 5Apr 8Apr 11Apr 13Apr 15
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
9 games shown, 14:50 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

Only 9 GP in 2025-26: NHL EDGE percentiles are noisy before about 15-20 games.

Top speed22nd2220.8 mph
Bursts 20+ mph15th152
Hardest shot9th1076.8 mph
Offensive-zone time77th7743.5%
Distance skated19th2019.5 mi
High-danger SOG1st00
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 · 13 attempts, 3 on goal, 0 goals

Shot map, OPP at NYR: 13 attempts, 3 on goal, 0 goals, 0.13 expected goals; best chance Drew Fortescue at 0.03 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 · 9 GP · 2 points vs 1.8 expected

Luck Meter →
Hold

0.0%
110.6
25.0%
G vs xG
0 / 0.1
  • • Only 9 games: treat the meter as a hint.
Goals against expected goals
00.20.40.60.81-0.1goals below expected-0.4σ3/274/15
  • Actual goals
  • Expected
  • ±1σ
  • Above expected
  • Below expected

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

Fantasy box score

Usage

Special teams & discipline

Luck & trend

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 · 8 of 9 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)

MethodLeaders
−0.058
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 60
0.00
Attempts
0
0.000

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

MethodLeaders
Season
−0.41G
Per 60
−0.183
Drawn / taken
0 / 2minors

MethodLeaders
53.2%
48.9%
52.9%
Transition CF/60
3.2
Turnovers won/60
23.3
Turnovers lost/60
17.8

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

Linemates

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

TeammatePosGPShareCF% togetherGF% togetherCF% Fortescue apartCF% mate apart
Braden SchneiderD9104:5080%45.0%67% (6-3)45.1% 26:2441.0% 39:59
Vincent TrocheckC945:1634%52.0%100% (3-0)41.8% 85:5846.2% 71:43
Will CuylleLW941:3932%50.6%75% (3-1)42.1% 89:3548.4% 70:46
Alexis LafrenièreLW938:2129%39.7%75% (3-1)47.1% 92:5352.5% 87:05
Gabe PerreaultRW936:2728%39.7%67% (2-1)46.9% 94:4749.4% 90:32
Mika ZibanejadC936:0828%37.3%60% (3-2)48.0% 95:0648.8% 87:09
Adam SykoraLW930:0923%34.6%0% (0-1)47.9% 101:0547.9% 66:50
Jaroslav ChmelarRW929:2222%37.7%50% (2-2)47.1% 101:5255.9% 70:29
Jonny BrodzinskiC828:4822%59.7%83% (5-1)40.3% 86:4261.1% 61:26
J.T. MillerC827:0921%51.0%0% (0-1)41.4% 90:3146.6% 67:59
Tye KartyeLW826:1720%52.1%0% (0-1)41.1% 91:2347.3% 67:25
Conor ShearyLW824:3919%50.0%— (0-0)41.8% 93:0144.9% 67:04
Noah LabaC821:5017%34.9%67% (2-1)44.7% 93:2154.5% 65:02
Adam FoxD46:295%76.9%— (0-0)46.9% 50:4860.0% 64:56

Linemate and opposition quality

2025-26 · 5v5 · 131 min on ice · ranked against 270 defencemen

46.7%

teammates' average xGF%

14th percentile · higher = stronger linemates

28.0%

opponents' average ice-time share

4th percentile · higher = faces more top-line minutes

Sheltered minutes: mostly faces weaker opposition.

QoT averages the season xGF% of Fortescue's 5v5 teammates; QoC averages how much of their team's ice time Fortescue's opponents get, so a high QoC means facing top lines. Both are weighted by time shared on the ice, lean on last season for small samples, and are ranked within forwards or defence.

Game log

9 games in 2025-26, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Apr 15@ TBLW 4-200000001—15:4415:44——
Apr 13@ FLAL 2-3000-10000—13:0212:55—0:07
Apr 8vs BUFL 3-5011-10010—13:3413:34——
Apr 5vs WSHW 8-1000+30010—17:5317:250:28—
Apr 4vs DETW 4-1000+10200—11:1611:16——
Apr 2vs MTLL 2-3000+11010—14:0114:01——
Mar 31vs NJDW 4-1000+10003—13:4813:48——
Mar 29vs FLAW 3-1000-11213—16:5416:50——
Mar 27vs CHIW 6-1011+11020—17:2316:031:050:15

Season splits by strength

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

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations9133:3514:5111013445.1%44.9%47618467%5.44.748%
Even strength9131:3614:3710913345.0%44.8%46608467%5.24.646%
5v59131:1414:3510813245.0%44.8%46598467%5.24.646%
Power play21:330:4710100.0%100.0%1000—0.20.0100%
Penalty kill20:220:11010.0%0.0%0100—0.00.1—

Career by season

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

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2025-26NYR9022+4430.0%6714:51

Drew Fortescue news

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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.