D · OTT · NHL id 8478502
Dennis Gilbert has played 8 games for the Ottawa Senators in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 1 assist (1 points) on 2 shots while averaging 12:41 a night (12:25 at even strength, 0:00 on the power play and 0:15 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 64% of his 5v5 minutes with Nikolas Matinpalo and 37% with Fabian Zetterlund over the last 10 games, and the Senators have controlled 49% of shot attempts with Gilbert on the ice (3-3 in goals, 55% offensive-zone starts). In the Senators' most recent game against CAR he was on D3 with Jordan Spence and off the power play.
Right now
From the Apr 25 game vs CAR, detected from shift data
Deployment timeline
2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes
Usage: 8 games, 11:36 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
2024-25 percentiles among skaters at his position
Only 8 GP in 2025-26; showing 2024-25 NHL EDGE data.
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 · 8 attempts, 2 on goal, 0 goals
Shot map, OPP at OTT: 8 attempts, 2 on goal, 0 goals, 0.12 expected goals; best chance Dennis Gilbert at 0.09 xG.
- Even strength
- Power play
- Penalty kill
- Goal
- Shot on goal
- Missed
- Blocked
Luck
2025-26 · 8 GP · 1 points vs 1.6 expected
- 0.0%
- 97.6
- 33.3%
- G vs xG
- 0 / 0.1
- • Only 8 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 defencemen. Each stat links to its explainer.
Fantasy box score
- Games played8
- Goals0
- Assists1
- Points1
- Shots on goal2
- Hits10
- Blocked shots12
- Plus/minus0
- Penalty minutes2
Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)
- Corsi (CF%)49.1%
- Fenwick (FF%)54.5%
- Sequence xG (sxGF%)57.0%
Transition, turnovers & faceoffs
- Turnover Ledger /60−0.013
Usage
- Ice time per game12:41
- Offensive-zone start %55.0%
Special teams & discipline
Luck & trend
- On-ice PDO976
- Luck Meter−22545th of 828
NHL EDGE tracking
- Hardest shot89.2
- Offensive-zone time44.1%
Unranked rows are below the sample minimum (20 GP, 200 five-on-five minutes, 100 draws or 10 goalie games).
Beyond the box score
2024-25 regular season · 24 of 29 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)
- −0.035
- Season net
- −0.17xG
5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.
- Per 60
- 0.21
- Attempts
- 1
- 0.000
5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.
How his goals happened
1 goal since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation
| Game | Play | Entry | Passes | Shot mph | Notes | Replay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2023 vs PHI | Odd-man rush | carry | 0 | 73.1 | 2-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 Gilbert
| Teammate | Pos | GP | Share | CF% together | GF% together | CF% Gilbert apart | CF% mate apart | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nikolas Matinpalo | D | 8 | 72:48 | 57% | 45.0% | 60% (3-2) | 52.9% 21:14 | 38.1% 44:15 |
| Fabian Zetterlund | LW | 11 | 43:49 | 34% | 52.5% | 50% (1-1) | 44.3% 84:24 | 55.3% 74:54 |
| Lars Eller | C | 10 | 41:41 | 33% | 49.3% | 100% (2-0) | 44.4% 72:42 | 44.1% 59:01 |
| Warren Foegele | LW | 9 | 38:30 | 30% | 51.4% | 100% (3-0) | 47.1% 70:34 | 50.4% 65:49 |
| Ridly Greig | C | 11 | 34:42 | 27% | 38.5% | 0% (0-2) | 50.3% 93:31 | 57.4% 114:35 |
| Dylan Cozens | C | 11 | 33:53 | 26% | 45.9% | 0% (0-2) | 47.5% 94:20 | 62.0% 120:31 |
| Drake Batherson | C | 10 | 31:27 | 25% | 50.0% | — (0-0) | 49.1% 91:27 | 60.8% 101:04 |
| Nick Cousins | C | 10 | 29:49 | 23% | 43.4% | 0% (0-1) | 48.1% 84:31 | 45.8% 89:30 |
| Jordan Spence | D | 5 | 25:05 | 20% | 48.0% | 0% (0-1) | 45.3% 28:21 | 59.8% 88:12 |
| Tim Stützle | LW | 8 | 20:20 | 16% | 56.5% | 33% (1-2) | 42.5% 65:25 | 49.7% 96:17 |
| Claude Giroux | RW | 8 | 19:52 | 15% | 46.9% | — (0-0) | 50.0% 82:15 | 49.4% 79:35 |
| Michael Amadio | C | 9 | 18:59 | 15% | 29.4% | 100% (1-0) | 48.3% 80:19 | 41.0% 112:01 |
| Shane Pinto | C | 8 | 18:29 | 14% | 26.9% | — (0-0) | 53.0% 76:42 | 46.8% 95:38 |
| Brady Tkachuk | LW | 8 | 16:45 | 13% | 46.4% | 0% (0-3) | 46.9% 69:40 | 61.1% 92:06 |
Game log
11 games in 2025-26, newest first
| Date | Opp | Result | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | HIT | BLK | EV | PP | PK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25PO | vs CAR | L 2-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5:47 | 5:19 | — | 0:28 |
| Apr 20PO | @ CAR | OTL 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | — | 15:24 | 15:24 | — | — |
| Apr 18PO | @ CAR | L 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | — | 8:26 | 8:08 | — | 0:18 |
| Apr 15 | vs TOR | W 3-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 15:32 | 15:02 | — | 0:30 |
| Apr 12 | @ NJD | OTL 3-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 17:46 | 16:12 | — | 1:32 |
| Mar 21 | vs TOR | W 5-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | — | 11:17 | 11:14 | 0:03 | — |
| Mar 19 | vs NYI | W 3-2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | — | 9:04 | 9:04 | — | — |
| Mar 18 | @ WSH | L 1-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | — | 9:33 | 9:33 | — | — |
| Mar 15 | vs SJS | W 7-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 13:53 | 13:53 | — | — |
| Mar 14 | vs ANA | W 2-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | — | 10:35 | 10:34 | — | 0:01 |
| Dec 4 | vs NYR | L 2-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 13:50 | 13:50 | — | — |
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 | 8 | 101:30 | 12:41 | 87 | 91 | 48.9% | 54.1% | 45 | 34 | 3 | 3 | 50% | 4.7 | 3.7 | 48% |
| Even strength | 8 | 99:22 | 12:25 | 87 | 90 | 49.2% | 54.5% | 45 | 33 | 3 | 3 | 50% | 4.7 | 3.5 | 55% |
| 5v5 | 8 | 99:22 | 12:25 | 87 | 90 | 49.2% | 54.5% | 45 | 33 | 3 | 3 | 50% | 4.7 | 3.5 | 55% |
| Power play | 1 | 0:03 | 0:03 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | — |
| Penalty kill | 3 | 2:03 | 0:41 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0% |
| 4v5 | 3 | 2:03 | 0:41 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0% |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26Playoffs | OTT | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 6 | 0 | — | 11 | 2 | 9:52 |
| 2025-26 | OTT | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | 10 | 12 | 12:41 |
| 2024-25 | OTT, BUF | 29 | 0 | 6 | 6 | -3 | 50 | 9 | 0.0% | 63 | 36 | 10:29 |
| 2023-24 | CGY | 34 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -7 | 16 | 23 | 4.3% | 59 | 49 | 12:17 |
| 2022-23 | CGY | 23 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 13 | 7.7% | 55 | 26 | 11:44 |
| 2020-21 | COL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | 6:43 |
| 2019-20 | CHI | 21 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -8 | 38 | 12 | 8.3% | 74 | 33 | 15:42 |
| 2018-19 | CHI | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 6 | 1 | 12:46 |
Dennis Gilbert news
- Sabres' Dennis Gilbert: Sent back to minorsCBS Sports
- Sabres' Dennis Gilbert: Called up from minorscbssports.com
- Sabres recall St. Joe's alum Dennis Gilbert ahead of season opener at ColumbusBuffalo News
- Sabres Place Olen Zellweger On IR, Recall Dennis Gilbertprohockeyrumors.com
- Sabres' Dennis Gilbert: Placed on waiverscbssports.com
- Dennis Gilbert | Sabres LiveNHL.com
- Dennis Gilbert - Hockey 2017-18Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Report: Sabres sign Dennis Gilbert to one-year contractAudacy
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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.