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Ben Meyers

#59 · Centre · Seattle Kraken

Born Nov 15, 1998 in Delano, Minnesota, USA (age 27) · 5'11", 194 lb · Shoots left

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2026-27. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Aleksander Barkov FLA · 0 P in 2 GP Andrei Kuzmenko PIT · 0 P in 2 GP Cole Koepke WPG · 0 P in 2 GP Colin Blackwell DAL · 0 P in 2 GP Conor Garland CBJ · 0 P in 2 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.

0510152021-22: 1 points121-222022-23: 4 points422-232023-24: 3 points323-242024-25: 0 points024-252025-26: 15 points1525-262026-27: 0 points026-27

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2021-22 COL 5 1 0 1 -2 0 8 1 0.20 $913K
2022-23 COL 39 4 0 4 -6 6 33 25 0.10 $913K
2023-24 COL 9 1 0 1 -2 0 7 12 0.11 $775K
2023-24 ANA 14 0 2 2 -2 6 5 22 0.14
2024-25 SEA 8 0 0 0 -2 2 4 9 0.00 $775K
2025-26 SEA 52 7 8 15 -12 16 61 66 0.29 $775K
2026-27 SEA 2 0 0 0 -1 15 0 3 0.00 $1M
6 seasons Career 129 13 10 23 -27 45 118 138 0.18

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2022-23 COL 6 0 0 0 -2 2 1 4 0.00
1 season Playoffs 6 0 0 0 -2 2 1 4 0.00

2026-27 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
2 0 0 0 -1 15 0 3 0.00 0.0 10:54

Contract

$1MCap hitends in 2028, then UFA
$27.209MCap dollars per goal above replacement0.0 goals above replacement, projected
$848KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$152KValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

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. The season is still being played, so each rating is projected over the whole season: the games played so far, plus the games left at the rate of the last three seasons and this one. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 648 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Signed by the Seattle Kraken on Feb 24, 2026, as an extension of the contract he was on: 2 years and $2M, beginning in 2026-27. It runs through 2027-28, with 1 season left after this one, and he is then an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2026-27 $1M
2027-28 $1M

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
Feb 24, 2026 Seattle Kraken Extension 2026-27 to 2027-28 2 $2M $1M
2025-26 to 2025-26 $775K
Jul 1, 2024 Seattle Kraken New contract 2024-25 to 2024-25 1 $775K $775K
Jul 26, 2023 Colorado Avalanche New contract 2023-24 to 2023-24 1 $775K $775K
Apr 13, 2022 Colorado Avalanche Entry-level 2021-22 to 2022-23 2 $2.063M $913K

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 2026-27 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.

2026-27 analytics

Rating, projected over the full season

2026-27 is still being played, so these are a projection of his whole season, not a count so far: what he has done in 2 games (-0.5 goals above replacement), plus the 32 more he is taken to play, going by how much of his team's games he has played before, at a rate set by his last three seasons and this one. The more he plays, the more this season counts, and by the last game it is simply his season.

+0.0Goals above replacement497th of 648 skaters, 341st of 423 forwards
+0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.7Goals above averagethe five parts below added up

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 423 ranked forwards: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile.

Even-strength offence-0.3 43rd percentileEven-strength defence+0.3 55th percentilePower play0.0 58th percentilePenalty kill-0.3 11th percentilePenalties-0.3 18th percentile

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, and the rank beside it is among forwards. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance.

-1012342021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Goals 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

26.7Corsi for %8 attempts for, 22 against
-21.0CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
21.8Expected goals for %0.2 expected for, 0.9 against
-20.9xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
13.3Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
0.0Goals for %0 for, 1 against
85.7PDO0.0% shooting + 85.7% saves
0Attempts 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

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Frederick Gaudreau · Mackie Samoskevich · Ben Meyers27:1222.243.40-0
Frederick Gaudreau · Ryan Winterton · Ben Meyers16:4338.529.40-1
Frederick Gaudreau · Shane Wright · Ben Meyers10:380.00.00-0
Ryan Winterton · Ben Meyers · Berkly Catton10:340.00.00-0

The lines 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 lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Oct 6, 2026 vs VGK L 2-6 0 0 0 -1 15 0 2 10:48
Oct 3, 2026 @ EDM L 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:59