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Henri Jokiharju
Boston Bruins Defense #20
448 games at 27, and still being asked to play the third pair.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | CHI | 38 | 0 | 12 | 12 | -7 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 0.0 | 18:59 |
| 2019-20 | BUF | 69 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -6 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 5.1 | 17:13 |
| 2020-21 | BUF | 46 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 6.0 | 18:23 |
| 2021-22 | BUF | 60 | 3 | 16 | 19 | -8 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 3.6 | 21:53 |
| 2022-23 | BUF | 60 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -12 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 3.8 | 21:01 |
| 2023-24 | BUF | 74 | 3 | 17 | 20 | +14 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 84 | 3.6 | 18:59 |
| 2024-25 | BUF/BOS | 60 | 3 | 7 | 10 | +13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 59 | 5.1 | 17:49 |
| 2025-26 | BOS | 41 | 2 | 13 | 15 | +2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 5.0 | 17:48 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 448 | 21 | 91 | 112 | -15 | 154 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 535 | 3.9 | 19:03 |
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
2 goals and 13 assists in 41 games, plus-2, at 17:48 a night. Half a season lost to injury.
The Finesse Game
He can move a puck. 13 assists in 41 games is a good rate for a third-pair defenceman and comes from a player who makes the first pass quickly and accurately under a forecheck.
The shot barely exists — 69 attempts, 2 goals, 80 per cent of them from beyond 40 feet with a median of 49. He is not a threat and does not pretend to be.
The Physical Game
6 foot even, 205, and the weak spot. 14 penalty minutes in 41 games. He defends with his stick and his angles, and against a heavy cycle he gets pushed off the puck.
The Intangibles
A 29th overall pick who has played 448 games without ever locking down a top-4 role, which is its own kind of career.
The on-ice rate was 48.1 per cent of the expected goals, 38th percentile — dead average, and on this blue line that made him the second-best defenceman by process. 9 points in his last 10 games.
He is 27 and available. The passing is real, the defending is ordinary, and a club that shelters him gets a useful third pair out of it.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 666 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.1%
- 38th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.3%
- 61st 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: 36 for, 32 against. Expected: 27.6 and 29.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 34 points above where the report does. 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 — 61 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 · 41 games
- Top speed
- 21.3 mph
- 37th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.39 a game
- Distance
- 2.61 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.3 mph
- 54th 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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
9
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 7 assists, 16 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 666 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, 2025-26
- The club
- BOS took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.1% — 0.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 666 minutes at five-on-five — 27th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nikita Zadorov | 47.1% | 49.0% | 46.4% |
| David Pastrnak | 48.2% | 48.1% | 48.3% |
| Morgan Geekie | 42.3% | 50.4% | 47.1% |
47.1% together, 49.0% for him apart and 46.4% for Zadorov apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
69 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 37 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.