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J.T. Compher
Detroit Red Wings Left Wing
32 points and a 44.4 per cent chance share — the 12th percentile — in the third year of a long contract.
| 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 | DET | 76 | 11 | 21 | 32 | -7 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 98 | 11.2 | 16:41 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 576 | 118 | 156 | 274 | -16 | 208 | 30 | 8 | 18 | 894 | 13.2 | 17:18 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
11 goals and 21 assists in 76 games for 32 points, minus-7, on 16:41 a night with 5 on the power play.
43.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 11th percentile — the worst figure among the club’s forwards. His on-ice goals were 30-28 against an expected 31-39, so the goaltending rescued a season in which he was thoroughly outchanced.
The Finesse Game
Modest. 98 shots in 76 games is low volume and 11 goals from them is ordinary, and 48 per cent of the attempts came from inside 20 feet so the locations are not the problem.
21 assists is a fair return. He is a middle-six forward whose value was always supposed to be in the defensive half, and last season that half did not work.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 191, and he plays honestly. He forechecks, blocks shots, and takes defensive-zone draws.
24 penalty minutes over 76 games is disciplined. The durability has been good throughout his career.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, three organisations, a Cup in Colorado, and a free-agent contract here that has looked expensive from the day it was signed.
At 30 with real term remaining, this is now one of the more awkward contracts on the roster. There is a useful third-line centre in there and the 12th-percentile share needs to move a long way before the money looks sensible.
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
- 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.
“He forechecks, blocks shots, and takes defensive-zone draws.”
“He forechecks, blocks shots, and takes defensive-zone draws.”
“He forechecks, blocks shots, and takes defensive-zone draws.”
“He is a middle-six forward whose value was always supposed to be in the defensive half, and last season that half did not work.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 961 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.9%
- 12th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.2%
- 6th 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: 30 for, 28 against. Expected: 30.7 and 39.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 48 points above where the numbers do. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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, 2024-25 · 76 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 64th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.39 a game
- Distance
- 2.63 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.1 mph
- 33rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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
2024-25 · 961 minutes at five-on-five
- Patrick Kane26%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.9% — 4.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 961 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Tarasenko | 50.0% | 39.2% | 45.7% |
| Ben Chiarot | 38.6% | 46.9% | 46.7% |
| Simon Edvinsson | 47.0% | 42.3% | 49.3% |
50.0% together, 39.2% for him apart and 45.7% for Tarasenko 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
137 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 10% from beyond forty.