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Boone Jenner
Columbus Blue Jackets Center
The captain, 23 goals in 59 games at 20:28 a night — the 96th percentile in ice time among forwards.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | CBJ | 72 | 16 | 13 | 29 | +6 | 45 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 127 | 12.6 | 14:05 |
| 2014-15 | CBJ | 31 | 9 | 8 | 17 | -5 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 83 | 10.8 | 18:16 |
| 2015-16 | CBJ | 82 | 30 | 19 | 49 | -15 | 77 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 225 | 13.3 | 16:25 |
| 2016-17 | CBJ | 82 | 18 | 16 | 34 | +14 | 52 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 211 | 8.5 | 16:04 |
| 2017-18 | CBJ | 75 | 13 | 19 | 32 | +1 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 187 | 7.0 | 16:28 |
| 2018-19 | CBJ | 77 | 16 | 22 | 38 | +6 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 170 | 9.4 | 17:04 |
| 2019-20 | CBJ | 70 | 11 | 13 | 24 | -14 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 179 | 6.2 | 18:07 |
| 2020-21 | CBJ | 41 | 8 | 9 | 17 | -9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 79 | 10.1 | 18:00 |
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 59 | 23 | 21 | 44 | -11 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 160 | 14.4 | 20:28 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 589 | 144 | 140 | 284 | -27 | 331 | 29 | 5 | 23 | 1421 | 10.1 | 16:59 |
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 goals and 21 assists in 59 games — 44 points at 20:28 a night, the 96th percentile among forwards — minus-11, with 22 penalty minutes.
42.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 897 minutes, the 5th percentile among forwards. His ice went 43-46 against an expectation of 35.13-47.64: eight more goals for than the chances promised, one fewer against.
Twenty-three goals in 59 games is the best rate of a nine-year career — better than the 30 he scored in 82 games in 2015-16 — and it came in a season he did not finish.
The Finesse Game
14.4 per cent shooting is the 77th percentile on a median distance of 22 feet with 54 per cent of his shots from the slot. 95.9 mph is the 89th percentile among forwards. He shoots hard from close, which is an unusual pairing and the reason 160 shots produced 23 goals.
2:58 a night on the power play is the 85th percentile and eight of the goals came there.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 204, 2.78 blocks per 60 is the 89th percentile among forwards and 3.98 hits is the 52nd. 1:36 a night shorthanded is the 76th percentile. He is a centre used at both ends of every special-teams sheet, and takes the minutes that go with it.
21.6 mph is the 8th percentile among forwards and 9.05 miles per 60 is the 10th. He is neither fast nor a heavy-mileage skater, and at twenty and a half minutes a night that is worth saying plainly.
The Intangibles
Thirty-seventh overall in 2011, 589 games and 284 points, all for this club, and the captaincy.
With Oliver Bjorkstrand on the ice Columbus took 48.7 per cent of the chances; without him Jenner was at 38.3, across 730 attempts together and 1,034 apart. Bjorkstrand is in Seattle. The captain is 29, and the man who made his line work is gone.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
15:12 a game at five-on-five, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
“589 games and 284 points, all for this club, and the captaincy.”
“2.78 blocks per 60 is the 89th percentile among forwards”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 897 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.4%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.1%
- 22nd 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: 43 for, 46 against. Expected: 35.1 and 47.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 59 points above where the numbers do. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 64 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 · 59 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 27th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.10 a game
- Distance
- 3.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.9 mph
- 93rd 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 · 897 minutes at five-on-five
- Patrik Laine52%
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
- CBJ took 44.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.4% — 2.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 897 minutes at five-on-five — 50th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrik Laine | 40.3% | 44.9% | 40.8% |
| Gustav Nyquist | 40.2% | 44.5% | 45.6% |
| Zach Werenski | 45.4% | 40.1% | 45.7% |
40.3% together, 44.9% for him apart and 40.8% for Laine apart. He was better away from Laine, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Laine.
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
213 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.