D · NYI · NHL id 8484287
Cole McWard has played 3 games for the New York Islanders in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 0 assists (0 points) on 1 shots while averaging 13:44 a night. At 5v5 he has skated 85% of his 5v5 minutes with Scott Mayfield and 42% with Calum Ritchie over the last 3 games, and the Islanders have controlled 32% of shot attempts with McWard on the ice (3-2 in goals, 33% offensive-zone starts). In the Islanders' most recent game against NSH he was on D3 with Scott Mayfield and off the power play.
Right now
From the Jan 8 game vs NSH, detected from shift data
Deployment timeline
2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes
Usage: 3 games, 13:44 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 0 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 3 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 · 1 attempts, 1 on goal, 0 goals
Shot map, OPP at NYI: 1 attempts, 1 on goal, 0 goals, 0.01 expected goals; best chance Cole McWard at 0.01 xG.
- Even strength
- Power play
- Penalty kill
- Goal
- Shot on goal
- Missed
- Blocked
Puck luck
2025-26 · cumulative goals against expected goals from his own shots
- 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 played3
- Goals0
- Assists0
- Points0
- Shots on goal1
- Hits4
- Blocked shots5
- Plus/minus+1
- Penalty minutes0
Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)
- Corsi (CF%)31.6%
- Fenwick (FF%)37.7%
- Sequence xG (sxGF%)41.4%
Transition, turnovers & faceoffs
- Turnover Ledger /600.000
Usage
- Ice time per game13:44
- Offensive-zone start %33.3%
Special teams & discipline
Luck & trend
- On-ice PDO1093
NHL EDGE tracking
- Hardest shot68.7
- Offensive-zone time34.2%
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 · 2 of 3 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)
- −0.073
- Season net
- −0.05xG
5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.
- Per 60
- 0.00
- Attempts
- 0
- 0.000
5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.
Linemates
2025-26 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without McWard
| Teammate | Pos | GP | Share | CF% together | GF% together | CF% McWard apart | CF% mate apart | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Mayfield | D | 3 | 34:49 | 85% | 27.9% | 50% (2-2) | 54.5% 6:23 | 39.3% 16:05 |
| Calum Ritchie | C | 3 | 17:20 | 42% | 26.5% | 0% (0-1) | 35.6% 23:52 | 29.6% 12:16 |
| Kyle MacLean | C | 3 | 16:11 | 39% | 22.2% | — (0-0) | 34.4% 25:01 | 30.0% 16:22 |
| Marc Gatcomb | C | 3 | 15:44 | 38% | 17.9% | — (0-0) | 39.2% 25:28 | 28.9% 20:27 |
| Max Shabanov | RW | 3 | 14:19 | 35% | 29.4% | 50% (1-1) | 33.3% 26:53 | 37.5% 23:20 |
| Casey Cizikas | C | 3 | 10:35 | 26% | 26.7% | 100% (2-0) | 32.8% 30:37 | 29.8% 24:48 |
| Anthony Duclair | LW | 2 | 7:30 | 18% | 20.0% | 100% (2-0) | 36.1% 18:52 | 34.1% 18:22 |
| Maxim Tsyplakov | RW | 1 | 7:11 | 17% | 33.3% | — (0-0) | 37.5% 7:39 | 100.0% 2:11 |
| Mathew Barzal | C | 3 | 7:02 | 17% | 66.7% | 50% (1-1) | 23.4% 34:10 | 54.6% 46:14 |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | C | 3 | 6:44 | 16% | 13.3% | — (0-0) | 35.9% 34:28 | 58.7% 33:18 |
| Jonathan Drouin | LW | 3 | 6:22 | 15% | 16.7% | — (0-0) | 34.3% 34:50 | 53.6% 35:13 |
| Tony DeAngelo | D | 3 | 4:31 | 11% | 62.5% | 100% (1-0) | 28.2% 36:41 | 55.6% 53:36 |
| Simon Holmstrom | RW | 2 | 4:28 | 11% | 83.3% | 100% (1-0) | 24.0% 21:54 | 48.3% 20:36 |
| Emil Heineman | LW | 2 | 4:22 | 11% | 45.5% | 33% (1-2) | 30.2% 25:40 | 53.1% 24:53 |
Game log
3 games in 2025-26, newest first
| Date | Opp | Result | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | HIT | BLK | EV | PP | PK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8 | @ NSH | OTL 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | — | 11:10 | 11:10 | — | — |
| Jan 6 | vs NJD | W 9-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | 15:12 | 15:12 | — | — |
| Jan 3 | vs TOR | W 4-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 14:50 | 14:50 | — | — |
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 | 3 | 41:12 | 13:44 | 25 | 54 | 31.6% | 37.7% | 18 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 60% | 1.5 | 2.2 | 33% |
| Even strength | 3 | 41:12 | 13:44 | 25 | 54 | 31.6% | 37.7% | 18 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 60% | 1.5 | 2.2 | 33% |
| 5v5 | 3 | 41:12 | 13:44 | 25 | 54 | 31.6% | 37.7% | 18 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 60% | 1.5 | 2.2 | 33% |
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 | NYI | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 4 | 5 | 13:44 |
| 2023-24 | VAN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 9:05 |
| 2022-23 | VAN | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16.7% | 5 | 6 | 14:13 |
Cole McWard news
- Cole McWard StatsNHL.com
- Cole McWard HomeNHL.com
- Cole McWard Bio, Awards & Draft InfoNHL.com
- Maple Leafs News & Rumours: Lettieri, Hlavaj, McWard & Building Depth EverywhereThe Hockey Writers
- Maple Leafs Sign Cole McWard and Henrik Rybinski to Two-Year ContractsSSBCrack
- Toronto Maple Leafs Sign Defenseman Cole McWard to Two-Year DealAzat TV
- Cole McWard News: Inks two-year dealRotoWire
- Leafs Sign Cole McWardPPP Leafs
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.