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J.T. Compher
Detroit Red Wings Left Wing
Fifty-six per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet and a 17.59 per cent conversion — the most net-front forward on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | COL | 21 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 10.0 | 14:56 |
| 2017-18 | COL | 69 | 13 | 10 | 23 | -29 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 131 | 9.9 | 16:00 |
| 2018-19 | COL | 66 | 16 | 16 | 32 | -8 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 118 | 13.6 | 17:29 |
| 2019-20 | COL | 67 | 11 | 20 | 31 | +9 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 106 | 10.4 | 16:45 |
| 2020-21 | COL | 48 | 10 | 8 | 18 | +10 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 21.3 | 14:13 |
| 2021-22 | COL | 70 | 18 | 15 | 33 | +6 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 102 | 17.6 | 16:19 |
| 2022-23 | COL | 82 | 17 | 35 | 52 | +8 | 33 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 154 | 11.0 | 20:32 |
| 2023-24 | DET | 77 | 19 | 29 | 48 | -5 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 108 | 17.6 | 19:23 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 500 | 107 | 135 | 242 | -9 | 184 | 25 | 8 | 15 | 796 | 13.4 | 17:23 |
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
Seventy-seven games, 19 goals and 29 assists for 48 points with 5 on the power play and 2 shorthanded, 19:23 a night and minus-5. He converted 17.59 per cent of 108 shots against a career 13.44 across 796.
He took 44.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,064 minutes, the 15th percentile, and his ice went 46-50 against an expectation of 36.47-46.34. Nineteen and a half minutes a night against the other club’s best line, and a chance share to match the assignment.
The Finesse Game
He shoots from a median of 16 feet with 56 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 — the most net-front profile of any forward on the roster. Every goal is scored from somewhere unpleasant.
One hundred and thirty-five career assists in 500 games. The passing is a third-line rate and the shot is not a weapon; the 17.59 per cent conversion is a function of where he shoots from rather than of how well he shoots.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 191 and goes to the front of the net against men much larger. Thirty-four penalty minutes in 77 games is a moderate rate.
He kills penalties and has 8 career shorthanded goals in 500 games, and he takes the defensive-zone draw that starts the shift. On a club whose penalty kill is 28th in the league he is the best part of it.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2013 out of Northbrook, three years at Michigan, eight seasons and 500 games, and a Stanley Cup in Colorado.
He is 29 and signed to be a second-line centre on a club that needed one. Forty-eight points at nineteen minutes a night is roughly what that is worth.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
“He shoots from a median of 16 feet with 56 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 — the most net-front profile of any forward on the roster.”
“He kills penalties and has 8 career shorthanded goals in 500 games, and he takes the defensive-zone draw that starts the shift.”
“He kills penalties and has 8 career shorthanded goals in 500 games, and he takes the defensive-zone draw that starts the shift.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,064 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44%
- 16th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.6%
- 11th 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: 46 for, 50 against. Expected: 36.5 and 46.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 15 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 22.9 mph
- 83rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.65 a game
- Distance
- 2.98 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.7 mph
- 37th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 · 1064 minutes at five-on-five
- Patrick Kane28%
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
- DET took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.0% — 1.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,064 minutes at five-on-five — 67th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moritz Seider | 43.6% | 44.3% | 43.5% |
| Alex DeBrincat | 45.1% | 43.4% | 51.3% |
| Ben Chiarot | 39.9% | 46.2% | 46.3% |
43.6% together, 44.3% for him apart and 43.5% for Seider 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
140 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 56% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.