Players · Red Wings · 2026–27

Ben Chiarot, illustrated

Ben Chiarot

#8 · Defense · shoots L · 6′3″, 224 lb · age 35 · Hamilton, CAN · drafted 2009, 120th overall

W-Value 38.7 game score 0.93 · 423rd of 679 until the W-Value is computable · 6 gp, 111 min · game score from MoneyPuck and HockeyStatCards, averaged, the same number as the log below
Games62026–27
Goals · assists · points0–1–10 on the power play · 0
Individual xG0.2−0.2 goals vs expected
5v5 xG share50%

Career arc

Value by season, split into the five components, on a 60/40 blend of chances and results. Bars above the line add value; below the line cost it.

-50+5 +0.0 2013–14 1 gp +4.9 2014–15 40 gp -2.5 2015–16 70 gp -0.7 2016–17 59 gp -0.7 2017–18 57 gp +0.3 2018–19 78 gp +2.6 2019–20 69 gp -3.4 2020–21 41 gp +0.5 2021–22 20 gp -5.7 2022–23 76 gp +0.4 2023–24 77 gp -10.5 2024–25 81 gp -9.1 2025–26 82 gp
EV offenseEV defensePower playPenalty killPenalties

Game log

Game score, average0.156 games · MoneyPuck and HockeyStatCards, averaged
Best game1.40Oct 4 vs WPG
Worst game-0.96Oct 6 vs OTT
Games at 2.0 or better02 below zero

Game score by game · red above zero, black below · line is the ten-game average

Oct 2Oct 13
DateOppTOIGAP+/−SBlkixGxGFxGAGF–GAGame score
Oct 13vs NJD19.4 011+11 40.01 0.691.61 2–1 0.22
Oct 10at MTL20.9 00002 20.26 0.690.66 0–0 0.22
Oct 9vs SEA17.1 000−10 00.01 1.411.26 1–1 -0.54
Oct 6vs OTT18.2 000−11 10.04 0.320.67 0–1 -0.96
Oct 4vs WPG17.4 000+11 10.07 1.670.81 1–0 1.40
Oct 2vs NYR18.5 00001 20.01 0.610.35 0–0 0.59

Most recent first. Box score from the NHL API. ixG, on-ice xGF/xGA and GF–GA are five-on-five, per HockeyStatCards (Natural Stat Trick data); TOI is all situations. Game score is Dom Luszczyszyn's formula as MoneyPuck and HockeyStatCards each compute it, averaged, where 2.0 is a strong night and below zero is a poor one.