David Jiricek
Philadelphia Flyers Defense #5
The sixth pick in 2022, 26 games, and no points at all.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 18:04 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 43 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -4 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 2.6 | 14:36 |
| 2024-25 | CBJ/MIN | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11.1 | 12:07 |
| 2025-26 | MIN/PHI | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.0 | 12:01 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 85 | 2 | 11 | 13 | -8 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 68 | 2.9 | 13:37 |
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
No goals and no assists in 26 games, even in plus-minus, at 12:01 a night with 16 penalty minutes.
13 points in 85 career games.
The Finesse Game
23 unblocked attempts from a median of 55 feet, 4 per cent from inside 20, and none went in. 16 shots on goal across 26 games.
He was drafted 6th overall as an offensive defenceman with a heavy shot. 4 seasons in there is no evidence of either.
The Physical Game
6-4, 204, and he defends adequately. 16 penalty minutes in 26 games.
The skating is the recurring criticism and it is why 2 organisations have now moved him.
The Intangibles
45.7 per cent of the expected goals, 20th percentile, and 45.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 17th, across 298 minutes.
Small sample, poor numbers, no points.
He is 22, the sixth pick in 2022, and already on his third organisation — Columbus traded him after 2 seasons, which for a top-10 pick that recent is a loud statement.
There is time. There is not much evidence, and a scoreless 26 games at 22 is not the sort of thing that gets better on its own.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 298 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.7%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.8%
- 18th 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: 10 for, 10 against. Expected: 12.6 and 15.0.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 14 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
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 — 62 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 · 26 games
- Top speed
- 20.0 mph
- 8th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.04 a game
- Distance
- 1.65 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.9 mph
- 77th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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 13 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
0
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 0 assists, 13 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with MIN · 280 minutes at five-on-five
- Daemon Hunt30%
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
- PHI took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.7% — 4.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 298 minutes at five-on-five — 6th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daemon Hunt | 39.4% | 47.9% | 45.0% |
| Ryan Hartman | 39.6% | 48.2% | 54.4% |
| Yakov Trenin | 37.7% | 48.3% | 49.9% |
39.4% together, 47.9% for him apart and 45.0% for Hunt apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
23 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 74% from beyond forty.