Armchair Scout
J.T. Compher

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J.T. Compher

Detroit Red Wings Left Wing #37

Six hundred and fifty-eight games, and the thirteenth percentile last season.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2682111728-13270019511.615:40
Career658129173302-292353081998913.017:06

Last Season

Eleven goals and 17 assists in all 82 games — 28 points, minus-13, at 15:40 a night.

The Finesse Game

Adequate and no more. A hundred and thirty-nine unblocked attempts, 43 per cent from inside twenty feet, median 23, and eleven goals. That is decent ice and a poor conversion.

Three hundred and two points in 658 career games is a third-line rate and this season was under it.

The Physical Game

Six foot even, 191, and he plays a willing two-way game. Twenty-seven penalty minutes. He kills penalties on a good unit and takes defensive-zone faceoffs.

The Intangibles

Forty-four point seven per cent of the expected goals, 13th percentile, with the expected goals 39.7 to 49.1 against across 1,060 minutes — one of the two worst forward marks on the club.

Four points in his last ten.

He is 31 and had one very good season in Colorado on a line that would have flattered anybody. Detroit signed the version of him that appeared in that spring and has been getting this one for three years. That is a familiar story and it is nobody’s fault but the club’s.