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Brandon Saad

Position	Left Wing / Right Wing	Current Team	Vegas Golden Knights
Shoots	Left	Current Contract	1 years
Height	6'1"	Expires	2025-26
Weight (lbs)	207	Expiry Age (Jun 30)	33
Age	33 (Oct 27, 1992)	Expiry Status	UFA
Drafted	2011, Round 2, Overall 43 (CHI)

Date	Team	Transaction
Jun 27, 2025	Vegas Golden Knights	Signed 1 year @ $2.000M AAV starting in 2025-26
Jan 31, 2025	Vegas Golden Knights	Signed 1 year @ $1.500M AAV starting in 2024-25
Jan 31, 2025	St. Louis Blues	Cleared Waivers
Jan 30, 2025	St. Louis Blues	Placed on Waivers
Jan 29, 2025	St. Louis Blues	Cleared Waivers
Jan 28, 2025	St. Louis Blues	Placed on Waivers
Oct 15, 2024	St. Louis Blues	Activated from IR
Oct 7, 2024	St. Louis Blues	Placed on IR
Jul 29, 2021	St. Louis Blues	Signed 5 years @ $4.500M AAV starting in 2021-22
Jul 3, 2015	Columbus Blue Jackets	Signed 6 years @ $6.000M AAV starting in 2015-16
Oct 5, 2011	Chicago Blackhawks	Signed to an entry level contract.

Status History Coming Soon

2025-26 Player Card

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2023-24 Player Card

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Player cards present an infographic of a players performance. In this case it shows the player performance over a 3 season span. Each square is separated into three separate sub-boxes with the two smaller boxes on top representing the past two seasons and the larger box on the bottom representing the current or most recent season. This allows the reader to guage how consistent a player has been, and if early in the season it can help identify whether a players performance may be impacted by small sample size and subject to regression or is consistent with recent past performance.

Notes and Definitions

The numbers represent percentiles so the higher the better.
Percentiles are determined by comparing Forwards to Forwards and Defensemen to Defensemen.
Bursts/mi are calculated from NHL Edge Data are are speed bursts above 20mpg per mile skated. The NHL doesn't adjust for ice time so the players that skate more will naturally have more bursts over 20, or at least more opportunity to have more. The NHL also does not provide ice time in the context of NHL Edge Statistics, however, it does provide distance skated. By adjusting for distance skated it will have a similar effect to adjusting for ice time but also adjust for situationional effect. For example, Players don't typically skate as much on the PK, mostly within the defensive zone, so don't get significant opportunity in that ice time to get speed bursts above 20mph. Adjusting with miles skates would account for this better than adjusting with ice time.
Sh%AE is Shooting Percentage above Expected (Sh% - xSh%) and is an indicator of how good a shooter is at converting chances into goals.
Relative statistics are On Ice - Off Ice statistics and can be an indicator of whether the player makes his teammates better or worse.
All data is 5v5 except Shooting Hardest and Average, Skating Top Speed and Bursts/mi which are all situations, ES Average which is even strength (NHL doesn't give a specific definition).

Data Sources

Salary data is from TheStanleyCap.com
Shooting and Skating (except Sh%AE) are from NHL Edge
Other statistics are from Puckalytics.com and derived from data from NHL.com

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5v5 Individual Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	G/60	A/60	Pts/60	xG/60	GAE/60	Sh%	xSh%	Sh%AE	%SA Rush	%SA Reb.
2015-16	CBJ	78	1046:34	1.03	1.03	2.06	1.06	-0.03	10.53	10.79	-0.27	11.74	3.48
2016-17	CBJ	82	1120:08	1.07	1.07	2.14	0.92	0.15	11.76	10.09	1.68	6.84	6.41
2017-18	CHI	82	1039:30	0.81	0.81	1.62	1.10	-0.29	8.09	11.03	-2.94	5.51	5.08
2018-19	CHI	80	1071:22	0.73	0.95	1.68	0.86	-0.13	8.97	10.58	-1.62	6.77	1.56
2019-20	CHI	58	743:57	1.21	0.89	2.10	1.00	0.21	13.89	11.53	2.36	5.07	7.25
2020-21	COL	44	508:38	1.42	0.83	2.24	0.81	0.61	20.00	11.45	8.55	5.88	5.88
2021-22	STL	78	1005:51	0.78	0.95	1.73	0.66	0.11	12.87	11.03	1.84	5.19	2.96
2022-23	STL	71	923:51	0.78	0.91	1.69	0.72	0.06	12.37	11.44	0.94	6.02	5.26
2023-24	STL	82	1054:29	1.02	0.91	1.93	0.65	0.37	16.36	10.42	5.95	6.76	7.43
2024-25	VGK	29	398:00	0.90	1.06	1.96	0.90	0.00	13.04	13.04	0.01	3.03	15.15
2024-25	STL	43	538:46	0.78	0.67	1.45	0.82	-0.04	9.86	10.42	-0.56	1.09	6.52
2024-25	STL, VGK	72	936:46	0.83	0.83	1.67	0.86	-0.03	11.11	11.45	-0.34	1.90	10.13
2025-26	VGK	21	261:03	0.23	0.69	0.92	0.73	-0.50	3.57	11.41	-7.84	2.63	7.89

5v5 On Ice Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	SAF/60	GF/60	xGF/60	SAA/60	GA/60	xGA/60	GF%	xGF%	xGF Rel	xGA Rel	xGF% Rel
2015-16	CBJ	78	1046:34	41.62	2.87	2.73	41.85	2.18	2.46	56.82	52.57	0.33	0.12	2.02
2016-17	CBJ	82	1120:08	45.32	2.68	2.65	37.07	1.71	2.19	60.98	54.76	0.18	-0.38	5.68
2017-18	CHI	82	1039:30	48.66	2.42	3.00	43.06	2.83	2.68	46.15	52.85	0.48	0.02	4.20
2018-19	CHI	80	1071:22	45.42	2.52	2.68	44.13	2.91	2.87	46.39	48.35	0.30	-0.06	3.46
2019-20	CHI	58	743:57	45.33	2.74	3.00	45.24	2.42	3.02	53.12	49.80	0.62	0.23	3.79
2020-21	COL	44	508:38	47.66	3.30	2.78	38.46	3.42	2.23	49.12	55.42	-0.06	0.44	-5.87
2021-22	STL	78	1005:51	37.70	2.74	2.44	43.55	1.91	2.88	58.97	45.90	-0.17	0.09	-2.50
2022-23	STL	71	923:51	40.33	2.66	2.55	45.53	3.05	2.80	46.59	47.63	0.29	0.02	2.78
2023-24	STL	82	1054:29	39.66	2.67	2.28	49.90	2.96	2.98	47.47	43.28	0.10	0.25	-1.08
2024-25	VGK	29	398:00	47.79	3.02	2.93	36.63	2.11	1.94	58.82	60.23	0.38	-0.25	6.35
2024-25	STL	43	538:46	39.53	2.00	2.37	44.10	3.23	2.47	38.30	48.98	0.26	0.33	-0.72
2024-25	STL, VGK	72	936:46	43.04	2.43	2.61	40.93	2.75	2.24	46.91	53.78	0.32	0.09	2.24
2025-26	VGK	21	261:03	42.29	2.07	2.41	36.08	1.38	1.99	60.00	54.76	-0.05	-0.15	1.30

NHL Edge Stats

		Skating				Shooting					Zone Time
Season	GP	Top Speed	Bursts>20/mi	Avg. Speed	ES Avg. Speed	Top Speed	Avg. Speed	%Long Range	%Mid Range	%High Danger	ES DZ%	ES NZ%	ES OZ%
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Legend

Percentile 0-25

Percentile 25-50

Percentile 50-75

Percentile 75-100

Forwards are compared with forwards and Defensemen are are compared with Defensemen.

5v5 Lines

Season

Season	Teammate	Teammate	Team	TOI	GF/60	GA/60	GF%	xGF/60	xGA/60	xGF%	xGF Rel	xGA Rel	xGF% Rel
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Glossary

Type	Statistic	Definition
Individual	G/60	Goals Against per 60 minutes.
Individual	A/60	Assists per 60 minutes.
Individual	Pts/60	Points per 60 minutes.
Individual	xG/60	Expected Goals per 60 minutes.
Individual	GAE/60	Goals Above Expected (G/60 - xG/60).
Individual	Sh%	Shooting Percentage.
Individual	xSh%	Expected Shooting Percentage.
Individual	Sh%AE	Shooting percentage above expected (Sh% - xSh%).
Individual	%SA Rush	Percentage of shot attempts determined to be on the rush.
Individual	%SA Reb.	Percentage of shot attempts determined to be from rebounds.
On Ice	SAF/60	Shot Attempts For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	GF/60	Goals For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	xGF/60	Expected Goals For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	SAA/60	Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	GA/60	Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	xGA/60	Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	GF%	Goals For Percentage = Goals For / (Goals For + Goals Against)
On Ice	xGF%	Expected Goals For Percentage = Expected Goals For / (Expected Goals For + Expected Goals Against)
On Ice	xGF Rel	xGF/60 when On Ice - xGF/60 when not On Ice.
On Ice	xGA Rel	xGA/60 when On Ice - xGA/60 when not On Ice (lower is better).
On Ice	xGF% Rel	xGF% when On Ice - xGF% when not On Ice.

Individual and On-Ice stats from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16). NHL Edge Stats from edge.nhl.com (starting in 2021-22). Edge statistic definitions can be found at the Edge Stats Glossary.

News and Opinions

Cassidy Explains Why Golden Knights Are Scratching Smith, Saad at Vegas Hockey Now (Sat Nov 29, 2025)
Bruce Cassidy makes eye-opening moves ahead of Saturday's game against the Sharks at Vegas Hockey Knight (Sat Nov 29, 2025)
7 Observations: Golden Knights Rout Blues, Enjoy Night of Firsts at Vegas Hockey Now (Sun Nov 16, 2025)
VGK Analysis: Shutout! Schmid, Golden Knights Blank Red Wings at Vegas Hockey Now (Wed Nov 5, 2025)
Schmid, Golden Knights shut out Red Wings 1-0 at Knights on Ice (Wed Nov 5, 2025)
The Golden Knights have serious buyer's remorse after letting a former player walk at Vegas Hockey Knight (Wed Oct 29, 2025)
It's time for a Golden Knights veteran to go to the pressbox at Vegas Hockey Knight (Mon Oct 27, 2025)
VGK Breakdowns: Golden Knights Lose Hill, Squash Hurricanes at Vegas Hockey Now (Tue Oct 21, 2025)
Golden Knights Facing First Real Test With Mark Stone Injured at Vegas Hockey Now (Mon Oct 20, 2025)
How can Brandon Saad have staying power with the Golden Knights? at Vegas Hockey Knight (Tue Aug 5, 2025)
Golden Knights re-sign Saad to 1-year, $2M deal at Knights on Ice (Fri Jun 27, 2025)
Golden Knights fans surprised by another free agent close to re-signing with the team at Vegas Hockey Knight (Thu Jun 26, 2025)

Current Contract

Brandon Saad signed a $2,000,000 1-year contract with the Vegas Golden Knights and General Manager Kelly McCrimmon on June 27, 2025 with an AAV of $2,000,000. This contract will start in 2025-26 and end after the 2025-26 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 2.09% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (UFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Clause	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2025-26	32	NTC	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	-	$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	UFA
Total					-	$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$2,000,000	$2,000,000

Signed: June 27, 2025

Team: Vegas Golden Knights

GM: Kelly McCrimmon

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 2.09

Previous Contracts (show) (hide)

Brandon Saad signed a $1,500,000 1-year contract with the Vegas Golden Knights and General Manager Kelly McCrimmon on January 31, 2025 with an AAV of $1,500,000. This contract will start in 2024-25 and end after the 2024-25 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.70% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (UFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Clause	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2024-25	31		$1,500,000	$1,500,000	-	-	$1,500,000	$1,500,000	$1,500,000	UFA
Total					-	-	$1,500,000	$1,500,000	$1,500,000

Signed: Jan 31, 2025

Team: Vegas Golden Knights

GM: Kelly McCrimmon

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 1.7

Brandon Saad signed a $22,500,000 5-year contract with the St. Louis Blues and General Manager Doug Armstrong on July 29, 2021 with an AAV of $4,500,000. This contract will start in 2021-22 and end after the 2025-26 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 5.52% of the salary cap. The St. Louis Blues terminated this contract on January 31, 2025.

Standard Contract (UFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Clause	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2021-22	28	NTC	$4,500,000	$4,500,000	-	-	$4,500,000	$4,500,000	$4,500,000	UFA
2022-23	29	NTC	$4,500,000	$4,500,000	-	-	$4,500,000	$4,500,000	$4,500,000	UFA
2023-24	30	NTC	$4,500,000	$4,500,000	-	-	$5,500,000	$5,500,000	$5,500,000	UFA
2024-25	31	NTC	$4,500,000	$4,500,000	-	-	$4,375,000	$4,375,000	$4,375,000	UFA
2025-26	32		$4,500,000	$4,500,000	-	-	$3,625,000	$3,625,000	$3,625,000	UFA
Total					-	-	$22,500,000	$22,500,000	$22,500,000

Signed: July 29, 2021

Team: St. Louis Blues

GM: Doug Armstrong

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 5.52

Clause: Player can submit a 12 team no trade list for 2025-26.

Termination: This contract was terminated by St. Louis Blues on January 31, 2025

Brandon Saad signed a $36,000,000 6-year contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets and General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen on July 3, 2015 with an AAV of $6,000,000. This contract will start in 2015-16 and end after the 2020-21 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 8.40% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Clause	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2015-16	22		$6,000,000	$6,000,000	-	-	$4,000,000	$4,000,000	$4,000,000	RFA
2016-17	23		$6,000,000	$6,000,000	-	-	$5,750,000	$5,750,000	$5,750,000	RFA-arb
2017-18	24		$6,000,000	$6,000,000	-	-	$6,250,000	$6,250,000	$6,250,000	RFA-arb
2018-19	25		$6,000,000	$6,000,000	-	-	$6,750,000	$6,750,000	$6,750,000	RFA-arb
2019-20	26		$6,000,000	$6,000,000	-	-	$6,750,000	$6,750,000	$6,750,000	RFA-arb
2020-21	27	M-NTC	$6,000,000	$6,000,000	-	-	$6,500,000	$6,500,000	$6,500,000	UFA
Total					-	-	$36,000,000	$36,000,000	$36,000,000

Signed: July 3, 2015

Team: Columbus Blue Jackets

GM: Jarmo Kekalainen

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 8.4

Clause: Player can submit a 10 team trade list in 2020-21.

Retained Salary: Chicago Blackhawks retained 16.7% of total salary on October 10, 2020

Brandon Saad signed a $2,385,000 3-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks and General Manager Stan Bowman on October 5, 2011 with an AAV of $795,000. This contract will start in 2011-12 and end after the 2014-15 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.24% of the salary cap.

Entry Level Contract ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2011-12	18	$795,000	$925,000	-	$92,500	-	$92,500	-	ELC
2012-13	19	$764,167	$894,167	$307,500	$92,500	$525,000	$617,500	$70,000	ELC
2013-14	20	$764,167	$894,167	$82,500	$92,500	$750,000	$842,500	$70,000	ELC
2014-15	21	$764,167	$894,167	-	-	$832,500	$832,500	$70,000	ELC
Total				$390,000	$277,500	$2,107,500	$2,385,000	$210,000

Signed: Oct 5, 2011

Team: Chicago Blackhawks

GM: Stan Bowman

Exp. Status: RFA

Note: This entry level contract slid one season as player did not meet the games played threshold to start the contract.

Career Statistics

			Regular Season									Playoffs
Season	League	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	Shots	Sh%	TOI/G	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	Shots	Sh%	TOI/G
2007-08	MWEHL	Pittsburgh	26	11	19	30		16
2008-09	U-17	USNTDP	7	6	5	11		2
2008-09	NAHL	Mahoning Valley	47	29	18	47	+21	48				7	5	1	6		10
2009-10	U-18	USNTDP	39	17	15	32		16
2009-10	USHL	USNTDP	24	12	14	26	+15	18
2009-10	WJ18-A	USA	7	3	3	6	+6	4
2010-11	OHL	Saginaw	59	27	28	55	+8	47				12	3	9	12	+1	10
2011-12	WJC-A	USA	6	1	5	6	+8
2011-12	OHL	Saginaw	44	34	42	76	+35	38				12	8	9	17	+3	4
2011-12	NHL	Chicago Blackhawks	2	0	0	0			3	0.0	14:01	2		1	1	+2			0.0	12:21
2012-13	AHL	Rockford	31	8	12	20	+1	10	95	842.0
2012-13	NHL	Chicago Blackhawks	46	10	17	27	+17	12	98	10.2	16:28	23	1	5	6	-1	4	50	2.0	16:24
2013-14	NHL	Chicago Blackhawks	78	19	28	47	+20	20	159	12.0	16:17	19	6	10	16	+10	6	35	17.1	17:31
2014-15	NHL	Chicago Blackhawks	82	23	29	52	+7	12	203	11.3	17:15	23	8	3	11	+5	6	59	13.6	20:16
2015-16	NHL	Columbus Blue Jackets	78	31	22	53	+1	14	233	13.3	17:13
2016-17	WCup	Team North America	3	0	0	0	-2	2
2016-17	NHL	Columbus Blue Jackets	82	24	29	53	+23	8	210	11.4	17:02	5	1	2	3	-5		10	10.0	15:58
2017-18	NHL	Chicago Blackhawks	82	18	17	35	-10	14	237	7.6	17:30
2018-19	NHL	Chicago Blackhawks	80	23	24	47	-9	12	195	11.8	17:41
2019-20	NHL	Chicago Blackhawks	58	21	12	33	+2	16	140	15.0	16:45	9	2	3	5	+2	2	20	10.0	16:31
2020-21	NHL	Colorado Avalanche	44	15	9	24	+1	12	68	22.1	14:06	10	7	1	8	+3	12	19	36.8	15:15
2021-22	NHL	St. Louis Blues	78	24	25	49	+11	10	158	15.2	16:16	12	2	3	5	+1	4	23	8.7	16:32
2022-23	NHL	St. Louis Blues	71	19	18	37	-8	12	127	15.0	16:39
2023-24	NHL	St. Louis Blues	82	26	16	42	-4	20	144	18.1	15:30
2024-25	NHL	St. Louis Blues	43	7	9	16	-14	6	75	9.3	14:36
2024-25	NHL	Vegas Golden Knights	29	6	8	14	+6		52	11.5	15:09	8		2	2		2	13	0.0	14:26
2025-26	NHL	Vegas Golden Knights	24	1	3	4	+1	10	34	2.9	13:50
NHL Career			959	267	266	533	+44	178	2136	12.5	16:27	111	27	30	57	+17	36	229	11.8	17:05