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Ottawa Senators

Xavier Bourgault

#53Right Wing23 years oldShoots R5'11"179 lb

2025-26 regular season
2
GP
0
G
0
A
0
P
3
SOG
0.0% SH
5:58
TOI/GP

RW · OTT · NHL id 8482673

Xavier Bourgault has played 2 games for the Ottawa Senators in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 0 assists (0 points) on 3 shots while averaging 5:58 a night. At 5v5 he has skated 54% of his 5v5 minutes with Jordan Spence and 48% with Nick Cousins over the last 2 games, and the Senators have controlled 63% of shot attempts with Bourgault on the ice (1-2 in goals, 100% offensive-zone starts). In the Senators' most recent game against COL he was on L4 with Lars Eller and Fabian Zetterlund and off the power play.

Right now

From the Jan 28 game vs COL, detected from shift data

Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
No PK unit
Last 2: L4 · L4

Deployment timeline

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

Usage: 2 games, 5:58 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 0 line changes.

PPLine440m3m7m10mDec 27Jan 1Jan 5Jan 8Jan 13Jan 17Jan 20Jan 24Jan 28
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
2 games shown, 5:58 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 2 GP in 2025-26: NHL EDGE percentiles are noisy before about 15-20 games.

Top speed14th1521.2 mph
Bursts 20+ mph2nd21
Hardest shot2nd362.9 mph
Offensive-zone time99th9948.3%
Distance skated2nd22.0 mi
High-danger SOG7th81
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 · 7 attempts, 3 on goal, 0 goals

Shot map, OPP at OTT: 7 attempts, 3 on goal, 0 goals, 0.28 expected goals; best chance Xavier Bourgault at 0.08 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).

Puck luck

2025-26 · cumulative goals against expected goals from his own shots

00.20.40.60.81-0.3goals below expected-0.5σDec 27Jan 28
  • Actual goals
  • Expected
  • ±1σ
  • Above expected
  • Below expected

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

Usage

Special teams & discipline

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 2 games through the sequence engine

MethodLeaders
−0.077
Season net
−0.02xG

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
+0.00G
Per 60
+0.000
Drawn / taken
0 / 0minors

MethodLeaders
64.3%
80.0%
64.5%
Transition CF/60
5.0
Turnovers won/60
30.2
Turnovers lost/60
25.2

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

Linemates

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

TeammatePosGPShareCF% togetherGF% togetherCF% Bourgault apartCF% mate apart
Jordan SpenceD26:2754%78.6%100% (1-0)40.0% 5:2849.1% 28:21
Nick CousinsC15:4448%61.5%50% (1-1)100.0% 0:5950.0% 2:47
Fabian ZetterlundLW15:0643%55.6%0% (0-1)— 0:0628.6% 3:53
Lars EllerC14:5942%55.6%0% (0-1)— 0:1333.3% 3:15
Stephen HallidayC14:5241%69.2%50% (1-1)50.0% 1:5144.4% 3:06
Nick JensenD14:4640%44.4%0% (0-1)100.0% 1:5733.3% 9:15
Nikolas MatinpaloD14:1135%57.1%— (0-0)75.0% 2:3240.0% 8:50
Tyler KlevenD14:0234%62.5%— (0-0)0.0% 1:1033.3% 9:57
Thomas ChabotD11:5817%100.0%100% (1-0)44.4% 4:4557.1% 17:19
Tim StützleC11:2512%50.0%— (0-0)69.2% 5:1865.4% 14:12

Game log

2 games in 2025-26, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Jan 28vs COLW 5-2000-10030—5:125:12——
Dec 27@ TORL 5-700003000—6:436:43——

Season splits by strength

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

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations211:555:5815962.5%60.0%751233%1.30.7100%
Even strength211:555:5815962.5%60.0%751233%1.30.7100%
5v5211:555:5815962.5%60.0%751233%1.30.7100%

Career by season

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

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2025-26OTT2000-1030.0%305:58

Xavier Bourgault 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.