J.T. Miller

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

80 games, 32 goals and 67 assists at 21:05 a night, plus-15, forty-seven penalty minutes, 206 shots and six game-winners. Eight of the thirty-two came on the power play. Fifteenth overall in 2011 by the Rangers, ten seasons, 637 games, 454 points.

The Finesse Game

Twenty-one minutes and five seconds a night is the 98th percentile among the 393 forwards who played forty games — one of the ten largest forward workloads in hockey — and he takes it at both special teams.

2:05 a night short-handed is the 93rd percentile among forwards, from a man who also took 3:19 on the power play at the 92nd.

Thirty-eight per cent of his ninety-nine points came on the power play, the 95th percentile, and 2.62 even-strength points per 60 is the 90th.

7.33 shots per 60 is the 51st percentile at 15.5 per cent, from a 28-foot median at the 75th percentile with forty-five per cent from the slot at the 28th — thirty-two goals from outside the paint.

51.3 per cent of the expected goals is the 61st percentile and 52.4 per cent of the attempts the 72nd, out of 53.9 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 209th-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts.

2.21 giveaways per 60 is the 84th percentile against 1.99 takeaways at the 74th.

The Physical Game

6.12 hits per 60 is the 72nd percentile at 6-0 and 211 pounds, and forty-seven penalty minutes came out of eighty games — 0.78 penalties taken per 60 at the 65th percentile.

The Intangibles

His shot is 99.4 mph, the 10th-hardest of the 365 forwards the tracking measures — the hardest on this roster.

9.03 miles per 60 is the 32nd-least of the 365 forwards the tracking covers, against a 22.9 mph top speed at the 78th percentile and 5.4 bursts per 60 at the 54th.

A hard shot, a high top end and less ground covered per minute than 333 other forwards. At twenty-one minutes a night that last figure is partly the workload, and it is still the line in the file that argues with the rest.

He is 29, with 454 points in 637 games across ten seasons, and ninety-nine is a career high by twenty-seven. Ninety-nine points, both special teams, the hardest shot on the club and eighty games. A career year at 29 off a 51st-percentile shot rate and a 15.5 per cent conversion is the thing to price carefully.