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Dylan Coghlan

#52 · Defence · Vegas Golden Knights

Born Feb 19, 1998 in Duncan, British Columbia, CAN (age 28) · 6'2", 210 lb · Shoots right

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 2025-26. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Andreas Englund NSH · 0 P in 3 GP Cole McWard NYI · 0 P in 3 GP Connor Mackey NYR · 0 P in 3 GP Isaak Phillips WPG · 0 P in 3 GP Luca Cagnoni SJS · 0 P in 3 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

05102020-21: 6 points620-212021-22: 13 points1321-222022-23: 3 points322-232023-24: 0 points023-242024-25: 0 points024-252025-26: 0 points025-26

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2020-21 VGK 29 3 3 6 -3 2 31 29 0.21 $716K
2021-22 VGK 60 3 10 13 -5 18 108 62 0.22 $763K
2022-23 CAR 17 0 3 3 -1 2 29 11 0.18 $763K
2023-24 CAR 1 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 0.00 $850K
2024-25 WPG 6 0 0 0 1 4 9 2 0.00 $775K
2025-26 VGK 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 0.00 $775K
6 seasons Career 116 6 16 22 -9 28 182 109 0.19

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2025-26 VGK 13 1 2 3 4 4 13 9 0.23
1 season Playoffs 13 1 2 3 4 4 13 9 0.23

2025-26 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
3 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 0.00 0.0 15:03

Contract

$775KCap hitends in 2026

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. He rated at or below a spare-part player, so there is no cost per goal to show.

The contract

Signed by the Vegas Golden Knights on Jul 1, 2025, as a new contract: 1 year and $775K, beginning in 2025-26. It runs through 2025-26, so this is its last season.

Season Cap hit
2025-26 $775K

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
Jul 1, 2026 Vegas Golden Knights New contract 2026-27 to 2027-28 2 $1.75M $875K
Jul 1, 2025 Vegas Golden Knights New contract 2025-26 to 2025-26 1 $775K $775K
Jul 10, 2024 Winnipeg Jets New contract 2024-25 to 2024-25 1 $775K $775K
Jul 5, 2023 Carolina Hurricanes New contract 2023-24 to 2023-24 1 $850K $850K
Sep 16, 2021 Vegas Golden Knights New contract 2021-22 to 2022-23 2 $1.525M $763K
Sep 20, 2017 Vegas Golden Knights Entry-level 2018-19 to 2020-21 signed for 2017-18, slid 3 $2.195M $716K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2025-26 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2025-26 analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

-0.2Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.3Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.2Even-strength defence+0.0Power play0.0Penalty kill0.0Penalties-0.2

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. He has played fewer than 20 games, too few to be ranked.

-2-101232020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

50.6Corsi for %45 attempts for, 44 against
+1.6CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
51.0Expected goals for %1.9 expected for, 1.8 against
+1.5xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
51.6Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
60.0Goals for %3 for, 2 against
102.5PDO15.0% shooting + 87.5% saves
7Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Defence pairGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ben Hutton · Dylan Coghlan337:0750.049.13-2
Shea Theodore · Dylan Coghlan12:1750.086.20-0
Noah Hanifin · Dylan Coghlan22:02100.0100.00-0
Jeremy Lauzon · Dylan Coghlan11:2850.011.50-0

The pairs he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's pairs that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Chances and finishing

Expected goals adds up how likely each of his shots was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. All situations, leaving out shots at an empty net.

0Goalsnot counting empty-netters
0.1Expected goalsfrom 5 unblocked attempts
-0.1Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.16 expected goals per 60 minutes41st
Shot quality 2.4% chance per attempt12th
Finishing -0.1 goals above expected46thOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of defencemen he is ahead of, among the 240 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

00.20.40.60.81Expected 0.1Goals 0

His goals and his expected goals as the season went on. When the goals line pulls away above, he is scoring more than his chances were worth; below, less.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took this season, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Feb 25, 2026 @ LAK W 6-4 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 15:15
Jan 22, 2026 @ BOS L 3-4 0 0 0 -1 2 1 4 13:57
Jan 8, 2026 vs CBJ W 5-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:58