J.T. Miller

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

81 games, 37 goals and 66 assists for 103 points, 10 on the power play, 2 shorthanded, 58 penalty minutes, 19:29 a night and plus-32, with 9 game-winners. He took 51.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,105 minutes, the 62nd percentile, and his ice went 64-38 against an expectation of 46.16-43.96.

Eighteen goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and six goals of goaltending above them. A hundred and three points and 37 goals are both career highs and he is 31.

The Finesse Game

303 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 40 per cent of them from inside twenty and 26 per cent from beyond forty, 193 of those on goal, converted at 19.1 per cent against a career 14.94 across 1,593 shots.

401 career assists and 238 goals in 799 games. He plays a heavy possession game and still takes forty per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet; the puck goes to the middle because he carries it there, and 66 assists says the pass is at least as good as the shot.

The Physical Game

He is 6-0 and 211 and took 58 penalty minutes.

441 career penalty minutes in 799 games. He wins the wall by leaning on people and forechecks like a man forty pounds heavier; the penalties come from finishing every check and arguing about the ones that were not called.

The Intangibles

Fifteenth overall in 2011 by New York, twelve seasons, and Vancouver is his third organisation.

A career plus-67 and 48 game-winners in 799 games. He is 31, he had 99 points in 2021-22 and 103 last season, and he has had 82 or more in three of the last four.