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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.
47.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,294 minutes, the 35th percentile. His ice went 59-45 against an expectation of 51.60-56.97 — 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.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- 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
82.5% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**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.”
“**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.”
“He does not retaliate, and he is on the penalty kill because he does not put himself in the position of having to foul.”
“He does not retaliate, and he is on the penalty kill because he does not put himself in the position of having to foul.”
“He does not carry it out under a forecheck and he does not gain the offensive line.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,294 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.5%
- 35th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.7%
- 43rd 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: 59 for, 45 against. Expected: 51.6 and 57.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 27 points above where the report does. 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. 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 652 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 74 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 50th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.77 a game
- Distance
- 2.77 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.7 mph
- 56th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
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 47.5% — 1.4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Power | 43.1% | 50.4% | 52.3% |
| Rasmus Dahlin | 54.1% | 43.4% | 50.2% |
| JJ Peterka | 49.4% | 46.6% | 53.5% |
43.1% together, 50.4% for him apart and 52.3% for Power 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
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.