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Position C
Age 26
Height 6'1"
Weight 201LBS
Shoots L
Birth Place Montréal, QC, CAN
Born Jan 12, 2000

Key Insights

2025-26
This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Carrier, Kapanen and Matheson: 2 goals against in 22 minutes.

5.52 against an hour, 2.2 expected
His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Veleno has been shuffled through 31 different five-man units and none of them have settled.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled
The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

10 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Veleno this season.

each of them also has that long apart from him, so every split below is a real split
Teammates play better with him than they do without him
Mike Matheson

Matheson is a different player beside him: 50.6% of the expected goals with Veleno, 44.6% without him.

188 minutes together, 1,254 minutes apart for Matheson
It stops working when he is paired with Arber Xhekaj
Arber Xhekaj

The pairing with Xhekaj is the one that costs him: 44.8% of the expected goals together, 50.7% apart.

179 minutes together, 442 minutes apart
Brendan Gallagher is the partner who brings the best out of him
Brendan Gallagher

Veleno is at his best beside Gallagher: 52.1% of the expected goals together against 46.7% apart.

259 minutes together, 362 minutes apart

Lineup and with-you/without-you numbers are built from shift charts, which are loaded per season. Seasons without shift data show no lineups. With-you/without-you totals exclude empty-net play, so a 6-on-5 push does not land in a with-or-without-you number. xG is Digest’s estimated model.

All Lineup Combinations

Player Bio Data
DOB Jan 12, 2000
Birth Place Montréal, QC, CAN
Height 6'1"
Weight 201 LBS
Shoots/Catches L