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Henri Jokiharju
Buffalo Sabres Defense
Twenty-one minutes a night at twenty-three, and 2.74 blocks per 60 — the 7th percentile among defencemen.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 213 | 10 | 44 | 54 | -32 | 72 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 273 | 3.7 | 19:06 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
3 goals and 16 assists in 60 games — 19 points at 21:53 a night, minus-8, on 83 shots and 20 penalty minutes.
Twenty-one minutes and fifty-three seconds a night, the 74th percentile among defencemen, from a twenty-three-year-old on his second organisation.
45.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,125 minutes, the 20th percentile. His ice went 43-50 against an expectation of 42.2-50.33 — both ends landed within a goal of what the chances predicted, which means the result is a fair description of the minutes.
The Finesse Game
16 assists in 60 games and 44 in 213 career games is the record of a defenceman who moves it and does not drive it. 0.80 even-strength points per 60 is the 31st percentile.
83 attempts at a median of 54 feet with 87 per cent of them from beyond 40 and 7 per cent from inside the slot. Three goals. He shoots from the point because that is where he is standing, not because anything is going to happen.
0.55 takeaways per 60 is the 14th percentile. He does not win pucks; he receives them.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 205, and 2.74 blocks per 60 is the 7th percentile among defencemen with 3.34 hits at the 41st. For a defenceman playing twenty-two minutes on a club that conceded 290 goals, blocking that few shots is a real gap.
Top speed 22.2 mph at the 63rd percentile and 8.40 miles per sixty at the 42nd. Ordinary throughout.
The Intangibles
Twenty-ninth overall in 2017 by Chicago, traded to Buffalo at twenty for Alexander Nylander, and 213 games since.
He is 23. He is a right shot playing top-four minutes on a rebuilding club, which is a description of his usefulness and not of his level — and with Owen Power arriving and Mattias Samuelsson developing, the honest question is whether Jokiharju is the third-best defenceman here in two years or the sixth.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
87.0% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 98th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“16 assists in 60 games and 44 in 213 career games is the record of a defenceman who moves it and does not drive it”
“2.74 blocks per 60 is the 7th percentile among defencemen”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,125 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.6%
- 21st pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.5%
- 41st 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: 43 for, 50 against. Expected: 42.2 and 50.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 54 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, 2021-22 · 60 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 75th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.55 a game
- Distance
- 3.06 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.2 mph
- 63rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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.
Usual linemates
2021-22 · 1125 minutes at five-on-five
- Jacob Bryson13%
- Owen Power10%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- BUF took 46.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.6% — 0.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,125 minutes at five-on-five — 79th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rasmus Dahlin | 44.9% | 46.6% | 47.5% |
| Jeff Skinner | 43.1% | 47.1% | 52.4% |
| Tage Thompson | 44.0% | 46.5% | 50.8% |
44.9% together, 46.6% for him apart and 47.5% for Dahlin 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
100 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 57 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 87% from beyond forty.