Dakota Joshua

61 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and a median of 13.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2020-21	STL	12	1	0	1	-3	7	0	0	0	9	11.1	8:58
2021-22	STL	30	3	5	8	+6	16	0	0	2	31	9.7	8:30
2022-23	VAN	79	11	12	23	-16	60	1	1	2	71	15.5	11:31
2023-24	VAN	63	18	14	32	+19	60	1	0	5	84	21.4	14:23
2024-25	VAN	57	7	7	14	-13	38	1	1	0	52	13.5	12:58
2025-26	TOR	55	10	8	18	-2	49	0	0	2	52	19.2	12:15
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	296	50	46	96	-9	230	3	2	11	299	16.7	12:08

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

10 goals and 8 assists in 55 games — 18 points, minus-2, at 12:15 a night with 49 penalty minutes. 27 games missed.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is excellent and it is essentially all of the offence. 61 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet with a median of 13 — the fourth-closest of any forward in the league with 50 or more attempts.

10 goals from 79 tries is a strong conversion. 96 points in 296 career games.

8 assists in 55 games is the flat truth about everything else.

The Physical Game

6-3, 218, and he plays a heavy, aggressive game — he forechecks with weight, wins the wall, and fights. 49 penalty minutes in 12 minutes a night is a high rate.

The skating is ordinary and it caps the role.

The Intangibles

47.1 per cent of the expected goals, 29th percentile, against only 43.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 7th percentile, across 625 minutes.

That 3-and-a-half point gap between chances and attempts is the useful part: the shots against came from the outside while he was out there.

6 points in his last 10, 3 of them goals. He is 30, a fifth-round pick Toronto drafted, let go, and bought back after a career year in Vancouver. 27 games missed is now the pattern rather than the exception.

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

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
68.4% of his attempts in the slot, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
32% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 625 minutes

Expected goals: 47.1%; 30th pct
Shot attempts: 44%; 7th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 27 for, 27 against. Expected: 23.0 and 25.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

55th

Numbers

30th

The report ranks him 25 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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, 2025-26 · 55 games

Top speed: 21.2 mph; 15th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.42 a game
Distance: 1.94 miles a game
Hardest shot: 80.0 mph; 20th pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 3 assists, 16 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 625 minutes at five-on-five

Nicolas Roynow COL45%
Matias Maccellinow NYI22%
Nick Robertsonnow PIT21%

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, 2025-26

The club: TOR took 46.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.1% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 625 minutes at five-on-five — 25th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Nicolas Roy	49.2%	45.6%	47.7%
Simon Benoit	41.4%	50.0%	42.3%
Jake McCabe	53.6%	43.3%	45.5%

49.2% together, 45.6% for him apart and 47.7% for Roy apart. He was worse away from Roy, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Roy 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

79 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 61% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.