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Axel Jonsson-Fjallby
Winnipeg Jets Left Wing
Twenty-three games starting 31.9 per cent of his shifts in the attacking end.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | WSH | 23 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6.9 | 11:11 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 23 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6.9 | 11:11 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
23 games for Washington, 2 goals and 2 assists at 11:11 a night, even, four penalty minutes, 29 shots. Hundred-and-forty-seventh overall in 2016 by Washington — the fifth round — one season, 23 games, 4 points.
Two hundred and seventy-three minutes of five-on-five ice and twenty-three games are both well short of the gate this book uses, so what follows is described rather than ranked.
The Finesse Game
He started 31.9 per cent of his end-zone shifts in the attacking end — fifty-eight against 124. That is the hardest deployment attached to any skater in this chapter, and it was given to a 23-year-old rookie winger.
Two goals from twenty-nine shots is 6.9 per cent, from a 30-foot median with thirty-eight per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet, off 6.77 shots per 60.
1.00 even-strength points per 60.
49.4 per cent of the expected goals against 46.7 per cent of the attempts across 273 five-on-five minutes. Out of that chair, a chance share within half a point of even is a considerably better result than the deployment asked for.
His ice went 6-5 against an expectation of 7.39-7.57, across eleven goals, which is not a sample and is stated only for completeness.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 189 pounds, and four penalty minutes in twenty-three games.
4.20 hits per 60 and 1.87 blocks, against 1.40 penalties drawn per 60 and 0.47 taken — a net of plus 0.93, which on twenty-three games is a hint rather than a finding but is the most encouraging figure in the file.
0:41 a night short-handed, on a fourth line.
The Intangibles
22.8 mph and 11.66 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60, both drawn from twenty-three games, and 9.72 miles per 60. His shot is 85.2 mph.
The sprint count is high and would be well inside the top quarter of the tracked pool if he had the games to enter it, and a maximum scales with shifts taken, so the top speed is described rather than ranked.
He is 24, a fifth-round pick of Washington, born in Stockholm, in his first NHL season. Twenty-three games at the hardest chair in this chapter, coming out near even on chances, with a strong penalty differential and real straight-line speed, is a genuinely promising quarter-season. It is also twenty-three games, and the four points are the reason nobody is promising anything.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 273 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.4%
- 51st pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.7%
- 26th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 6 for, 5 against. Expected: 7.4 and 7.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 12 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2021-22 · 23 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 83rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.17 a game
- Distance
- 1.81 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.2 mph
- 40th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2021-22 with WSH · 263 minutes at five-on-five
- Lars Eller54%
- Nic Dowd30%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2021-22
- The club
- WSH took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.4% — 1.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 273 minutes at five-on-five — 6th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dmitry Orlov | 53.3% | 46.4% | 52.0% |
| Nick Jensen | 45.2% | 53.1% | 51.5% |
| Nic Dowd | 39.4% | 54.3% | 53.5% |
53.3% together, 46.4% for him apart and 52.0% for Orlov apart. He was worse away from Orlov, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Orlov did.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
37 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 41 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.