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Dakota Joshua
Vancouver Canucks Center
The closest shot chart on the club, and 21.4 per cent of them went in.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 184 | 33 | 31 | 64 | +6 | 143 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 195 | 16.9 | 11:50 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
63 games, 18 goals and 14 assists for 32 points, 1 on the power play, 60 penalty minutes, 14:23 a night and plus-19, with 5 game-winners. He took 56.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 763 minutes, the 92nd percentile, and his ice went 35-18 against an expectation of 34.73-27.15.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and nine goals of goaltending above them. Eighteen goals on 84 shots is a 21.4 per cent rate and it is the highest on the club.
The Finesse Game
119 attempts at a median of 14 feet with 67 per cent of them from inside twenty and 9 per cent from beyond forty, 82 of those on goal, converted at 21.4 per cent against a career 16.92 across 195 shots.
Thirty-three career goals and 9 game-winners in 184 games. A fourteen-foot median attempt with two-thirds of them from inside twenty feet is the closest chart on this club; at 6-3 and 218 he goes to the paint and shoots from there or not at all.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 218 and took 60 penalty minutes.
143 career penalty minutes in 184 games. He forechecks straight through the first defenceman and wins pucks below the goal line by being heavier than whoever is there; sixty penalty minutes in 63 games is what that costs.
The Intangibles
One hundred and twenty-eighth overall in 2014 by Toronto, four seasons, and Vancouver is his third organisation.
A career plus-6 in 184 games. He was a fifth-round pick who did not hold an NHL place until he was 26, and he has scored 29 goals in the two seasons since.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 763 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.1%
- 92nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.5%
- 68th 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: 35 for, 18 against. Expected: 34.7 and 27.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 2 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 763 minutes at five-on-five
- Pius Suter18%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- VAN took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.1% — 3.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 763 minutes at five-on-five — 36th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conor Garland | 61.3% | 37.4% | 58.4% |
| Teddy Blueger | 58.9% | 52.5% | 54.2% |
| Tyler Myers | 57.7% | 55.1% | 50.8% |
61.3% together, 37.4% for him apart and 58.4% for Garland apart. He was worse away from Garland, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Garland 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
119 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 67% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.