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Tampa Bay Lightning

Maxwell Crozier

#24Defenseman6'3"205 lb

0.0 in 2 days
2025-26 regular season
35
GP
1
G
9
A
10
P
46
SOG
2.2% SH
16:01
TOI/GP

D · TBL · NHL id 8481719

Maxwell Crozier has played 35 games for the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2025-26, scoring 1 goal and 9 assists (10 points) on 46 shots while averaging 16:01 a night (14:35 at even strength, 0:01 on the power play and 1:20 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 63% of his 5v5 minutes with Declan Carlile and 34% with Oliver Bjorkstrand over the last 10 games, and the Lightning have controlled 54% of shot attempts with Crozier on the ice (21-16 in goals, 59% offensive-zone starts). In the Lightning's most recent game against MTL he was on D3 with Emil Lilleberg and off the power play. He is shooting 2.2% this season against 1.4% across the 58 games in our data.

Right now

From the Apr 29 game vs MTL, detected from shift data

Pair
D3
Emil Lilleberg
Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
PK2D
Emil Lilleberg
Last 5: D2 · D3 · D2 · D3 · D2

Deployment timeline

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

Usage: 3 games, 15:21 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 1 line changes.

PPLine232▲0m3m7m10m13m17m20mMar 21Mar 24Mar 28Mar 31Apr 4Apr 7Apr 11Apr 15Apr 21Apr 26
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
3 games shown, 15:21 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 speed51st5221.7 mph
Bursts 20+ mph54th5526
Hardest shot21st2284.5 mph
Offensive-zone time56th5742.0%
Distance skated34th3578.9 mi
High-danger SOG41st412
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 · 109 attempts, 49 on goal, 1 goal

Shot map, OPP at TBL: 109 attempts, 49 on goal, 1 goal, 2.07 expected goals; best chance Maxwell Crozier at 0.17 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 · 35 GP · 10 points vs 9.4 expected

Luck Meter →
Hold

Last 20 games: -14. Positive means running hot (sell), negative running cold (buy).

2.2%
102.2
41.7%
G vs xG
1 / 1.7
  • • Role rose over the last 10 games (TOI up 1:17 a game, 3 promotion events): some of the heat may be real.
  • • Shot diet improved: 0.045 xG per attempt lately vs 0.022 before (more from the slot).
Goals against expected goals
0123-0.7goals below expected-0.6σ10/94/15
  • 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 played35
  • Goals1634th
  • Assists9493rd
  • Points10563rd
  • Power-play points0437th
  • Shorthanded points1111th
  • Shots on goal46560th
  • Hits39471st
  • Blocked shots31441st
  • Plus/minus+7157th
  • Penalty minutes40182nd
  • Faceoffs won0451st

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 · 34 of 35 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)

MethodLeaders
−0.048
Season net
−0.40xG

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

MethodLeaders
Per 60
0.48
Attempts
4
0.002

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

MethodLeaders
Season
−2.24G
Per 60
−0.240
Drawn / taken
9 / 20minors

MethodLeaders
56.2%
55.7%
56.4%
Transition CF/60
3.3
Turnovers won/60
17.8
Turnovers lost/60
20.5

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

MethodLeaders
  • More of his shots than the league
  • Fewer
46 shots on goal, 1 goals, all situations
AreaHis shareLeagueG
R Point28%6%0
Low Slot2%23%0
Outside R13%4%1
L Circle7%13%0
L Point2%5%0
R Net Side0%3%0
Crease0%3%0

Role changes

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

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How his goals happened

1 goal since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation

Method
Goal anatomy
GamePlayEntryPassesShot mphNotesReplay
Dec 15, 2025 vs FLAPoint shotcarry3*63.7—

* 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 Crozier

TeammatePosGPShareCF% togetherGF% togetherCF% Crozier apartCF% mate apart
Declan CarlileD24248:1547%52.5%53% (9-8)53.1% 104:2834.7% 61:32
Oliver BjorkstrandRW36158:5130%53.4%44% (4-5)54.4% 365:2048.5% 205:59
Nick PaulLW28139:1026%56.2%25% (2-6)52.2% 269:2952.4% 171:24
Gage GoncalvesC33137:5826%54.5%50% (5-5)52.8% 329:2750.1% 236:22
Jake GuentzelLW35132:3025%54.1%64% (7-4)53.3% 365:3555.1% 331:43
Nikita KucherovRW34129:2624%57.3%71% (10-4)52.2% 364:4256.7% 339:47
Dominic JamesC23112:5521%54.0%33% (3-6)57.6% 208:2350.4% 139:12
Brandon HagelLW30108:1720%62.0%71% (5-2)51.9% 332:3760.9% 280:15
Yanni GourdeC33101:3919%53.4%33% (2-4)53.8% 388:2654.8% 354:46
Brayden PointC2598:3419%44.3%64% (9-5)54.3% 263:5652.9% 221:51
Emil LillebergD1197:2918%53.5%50% (5-5)70.4% 48:2347.3% 54:16
Anthony CirelliC2888:5417%57.3%57% (4-3)53.2% 318:3757.8% 252:04
Zemgus GirgensonsLW2881:1415%48.2%0% (0-2)55.3% 333:0654.1% 272:50
Pontus HolmbergRW2674:1614%48.7%50% (1-1)53.7% 316:5956.8% 273:29

Game log

37 games in 2025-26, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Apr 29POvs MTLL 2-3000-21000—17:4016:05—1:35
Apr 26PO@ MTLW 3-200002211—11:5411:500:010:03
Apr 15vs NYRL 2-400002010—16:3016:00—0:30
Feb 1vs BOSW 6-5000-12010—13:3612:15—1:21
Jan 29vs WPGW 4-100001010—18:4316:46—1:57
Jan 26vs UTAW 2-000001011—19:5417:51—2:03
Jan 23@ CHIW 2-100003020—15:1612:25—2:51
Jan 20vs SJSW 4-1000+20011—19:0618:15—0:51
Jan 18@ DALW 4-1000+10011—20:1617:52—2:24
Jan 16@ STLOTL 2-300003021—16:0614:26—1:40
Jan 13@ PITW 2-100000000—15:5913:25—2:29
Jan 12@ PHIW 5-1000011500—13:5412:09—1:45
Jan 10@ PHIW 7-200002030—18:4718:04—0:43
Jan 6vs COLW 4-201102001—15:3313:47—1:37
Jan 3@ SJSW 7-3011+11020—16:4915:26—1:23
Jan 1@ LAKW 5-3000-10203—14:2514:25——
Dec 31@ ANAW 4-3011+10202—14:2713:09—1:18
Dec 28vs MTLW 5-4000-11225—23:4121:02—2:34
Dec 27@ FLAW 4-2011+21643—20:2514:370:194:42
Dec 22vs STLW 4-100001010—14:0912:53—1:16

Season splits by strength

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

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations35560:2416:0149747151.3%51.1%226238242450%24.622.953%
Even strength35510:3514:3547640654.0%53.7%212203211755%22.817.960%
5v535502:4114:2246740253.7%53.6%207201211657%22.617.559%
Power play40:450:11010.0%0.0%0100—0.00.0—
Penalty kill2946:351:36125916.9%14.8%7312722%0.94.80%
4v4117:540:439469.2%60.0%52010%0.20.467%
4v52946:351:36125916.9%14.8%7312722%0.94.80%

Career by season

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

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2025-26PlayoffsTBL2000-2230.0%1114:47
2025-26TBL351910+740462.2%393116:01
2024-25TBL50000080.0%11616:41
2023-24PlayoffsTBL3000-1240.0%5214:15
2023-24TBL13022-27130.0%161112:56

Maxwell Crozier 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.