Jaccob Slavin

4 penalty minutes in 39 games, which is the most Slavin number ever recorded.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2015-16	CAR	63	2	18	20	+1	8	0	0	0	84	2.4	20:59
2016-17	CAR	82	5	29	34	+23	12	0	1	0	99	5.1	23:26
2017-18	CAR	82	8	22	30	+1	10	1	0	1	154	5.2	22:35
2018-19	CAR	82	8	23	31	0	18	5	1	1	146	5.5	23:02
2019-20	CAR	68	6	30	36	+30	10	0	0	3	145	4.1	23:24
2020-21	CAR	52	3	12	15	+22	2	0	0	0	101	3.0	22:59
2021-22	CAR	79	4	38	42	+35	10	1	0	0	165	2.4	23:32
2022-23	CAR	76	7	20	27	+18	8	0	0	1	131	5.3	22:00
2023-24	CAR	81	6	31	37	+21	8	0	2	1	151	4.0	20:56
2024-25	CAR	80	6	21	27	+16	8	0	0	2	110	5.5	21:34
2025-26	CAR	39	1	7	8	+8	4	0	0	1	63	1.6	21:19
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	784	56	251	307	+175	98	7	4	10	1349	4.2	22:23

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

1 goal and 7 assists in 39 games, plus-8, at 21:19 a night. 43 games missed, the most of his career.

The Finesse Game

The offence has never been the point. 56 goals in 784 career games, and 92 unblocked attempts last season from a median of 54 feet with 1 goal.

What he does with the puck is give it to somebody in a better position, immediately and accurately, under pressure, every time. It is the least visible elite skill in the sport.

The Physical Game

6-3, 207, and 4 penalty minutes in 39 games — a rate that would be remarkable for a fourth-line winger and is close to unbelievable for a defenceman playing 21 minutes a night against top lines.

He defends entirely with his stick and his feet. He does not need to hold, hook or cross-check because he is never beaten badly enough to have to.

The Intangibles

55.6 per cent of the expected goals, 91st percentile, and 58.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 97th, in 674 minutes — and this is a Carolina number, so read it against a club at 59.8 per cent.

He is 32, in his eleventh season, a fourth-round pick who has become one of the two or three best defensive defencemen of his generation without ever leading anything a casual reader would notice.

The 43 games missed are the concern and they are new. This club was the best possession team in the league without him for half a season, which is either a compliment to the system or a warning about how it will be judged.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 674 minutes

Expected goals: 55.6%; 91st pct
Shot attempts: 58.7%; 97th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 26 for, 25 against. Expected: 30.4 and 24.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

91st

Blind

67th

The two rank him within 18 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 24 points from the numbers; this one lands 18. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.

All three bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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, 2025-26 · 39 games

Top speed: 21.8 mph; 56th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.44 a game
Distance: 2.88 miles a game
Hardest shot: 99.2 mph; 94th pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 4 assists, 21 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 674 minutes at five-on-five

Jalen Chatfield77%

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, 2025-26

The club: CAR took 55.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.6% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third pair, 674 minutes at five-on-five — 28th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jalen Chatfield	54.9%	58.2%	50.2%
Andrei Svechnikov	55.4%	55.7%	55.3%
Sebastian Aho	53.6%	56.7%	56.8%

54.9% together, 58.2% for him apart and 50.2% for Chatfield apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Chatfield behind.

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

92 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.