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Dylan DeMelo
Winnipeg Jets Defense
Plus-46 — the second-largest figure in this edition — from a sixth-round pick.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | SJS | 45 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 4.8 | 13:37 |
| 2016-17 | SJS | 25 | 1 | 7 | 8 | +2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 3.1 | 15:54 |
| 2017-18 | SJS | 63 | 0 | 20 | 20 | -1 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 0.0 | 14:12 |
| 2018-19 | OTT | 77 | 4 | 18 | 22 | -1 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 3.7 | 19:17 |
| 2019-20 | OTT/WPG | 59 | 0 | 10 | 10 | +4 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 0.0 | 20:08 |
| 2020-21 | WPG | 52 | 0 | 9 | 9 | +10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0.0 | 16:58 |
| 2021-22 | WPG | 76 | 1 | 12 | 13 | +10 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 78 | 1.3 | 18:30 |
| 2022-23 | WPG | 75 | 6 | 21 | 27 | +10 | 50 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 93 | 6.5 | 19:34 |
| 2023-24 | WPG | 82 | 3 | 28 | 31 | +46 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 3.6 | 21:44 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 554 | 17 | 127 | 144 | +80 | 265 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 622 | 2.7 | 18:16 |
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
82 games, 3 goals and 28 assists for 31 points, 36 penalty minutes, 21:44 a night and plus-46. He took 53.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,534 minutes, the 75th percentile, and his ice went 81-44 against an expectation of 68.38-60.55.
Thirteen goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and seventeen goals of goaltending above them. The plus-46 is the second-largest figure in this edition and 31 points is a career high by four.
The Finesse Game
124 attempts at a median of 55 feet with 83 per cent of them from beyond forty and 4 per cent from inside twenty, 81 of those on goal, converted at 3.6 per cent against a career 2.73 across 622 shots.
127 career assists against 17 goals in 554 games. A career 2.73 per cent is one of the lowest rates any defenceman in this edition has posted over five hundred shots; the puck goes at the net from the point to be tipped and the first pass out is the whole of the value.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 194 and took 36 penalty minutes.
265 career penalty minutes in 554 games. He is not large and defends almost entirely by position; the reason he can play twenty-two minutes a night against the other club’s best is that he is never out of place, not that he wins anything physically.
The Intangibles
One hundred and seventy-ninth overall in 2011 by San Jose, nine seasons, and Winnipeg is his third organisation.
A career plus-80 in 554 games. He was a sixth-round pick, he has scored 17 goals in nine seasons, and he finished plus-46 last season on a club that allowed the fewest goals in hockey.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,534 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53%
- 76th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51%
- 63rd 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: 81 for, 44 against. Expected: 68.4 and 60.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 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 — 77 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 · 1534 minutes at five-on-five
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
- WPG took 52.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.0% — 1.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,534 minutes at five-on-five — 98th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Morrissey | 52.6% | 54.8% | 59.5% |
| Mark Scheifele | 50.3% | 54.6% | 48.9% |
| Mason Appleton | 50.5% | 54.2% | 51.6% |
52.6% together, 54.8% for him apart and 59.5% for Morrissey apart. Morrissey was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
124 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 36 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.