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Henri Jokiharju
Buffalo Sabres Defense
Eighty-three per cent of his attempts from beyond forty feet, and sixteen goals in 347 games.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 347 | 16 | 71 | 87 | -30 | 126 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 436 | 3.7 | 19:24 |
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
3 goals and 17 assists in 74 games — 20 points at 18:59 a night, plus-14, on 84 shots at 3.57 per cent with 24 penalty minutes.
46.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,294 minutes, the 27th percentile. His ice went 45-53 against an expectation of 51.10-58.49 — five goals of scoring missing and six fewer conceded than the chances predicted.
The Finesse Game
84 attempts at a median of 55 feet, with 83 per cent from beyond 40 feet and 5 per cent from inside 20. Sixteen goals in 347 NHL games.
17 assists. The first pass is quick and short and he moves the puck before he is pressured, which is the whole of his value with it. He does not carry it out under a forecheck and he does not gain the offensive line.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 205. He defends with his stick and closes gaps early rather than finishing checks, and he will lose the front of his own net to a heavy forward.
24 penalty minutes in 74 games and 126 in 347 for his career is a genuinely low rate. He does not retaliate, and he is on the penalty kill because he does not put himself in the position of having to foul.
The Intangibles
Twenty-ninth overall in 2017 by Chicago, traded here in 2019, and 347 games at 25 with a career minus-30.
Plus-14 on a club that finished twenty-second is the second-best mark on this blue line, and he is a second-pairing defenceman doing a second pairing’s job on a roster that keeps drafting men to replace him.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,294 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.6%
- 28th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.5%
- 40th 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: 45 for, 53 against. Expected: 51.1 and 58.5.
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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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 · 1294 minutes at five-on-five
- Owen Power39%
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
- BUF took 48.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.6% — 2.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,294 minutes at five-on-five — 89th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rasmus Dahlin | 53.2% | 42.1% | 50.2% |
| Owen Power | 42.6% | 49.2% | 51.9% |
| JJ Peterka | 48.1% | 45.9% | 52.6% |
53.2% together, 42.1% for him apart and 50.2% for Dahlin apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
120 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 41 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.