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Jaccob Slavin
Carolina Hurricanes Defense
8 penalty minutes in 80 games while playing the hardest defensive assignments in the league.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 745 | 55 | 244 | 299 | +167 | 94 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 1286 | 4.3 | 22:27 |
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
6 goals and 21 assists in 80 games for 27 points, plus-16, on 21:34 a night — the heaviest workload on the blue line.
55.8 per cent at five-on-five, the 93rd percentile, over 1,359 minutes. His on-ice goals were 59-58 against an expected 64-51, which is seven goals of goaltending disappearing behind the best defensive defenceman in the league, and five of scoring at the other end.
8 penalty minutes across 80 games. That is the number.
The Finesse Game
The stick is the skill and it is the best in hockey. He takes pucks off attackers without contact, which is why the penalty total is what it is, and he does it at the exact moment a play is about to become dangerous.
The first pass is quick and accurate and the skating is good enough to recover from anything. 110 shots and 6 goals — there is no offensive game here beyond keeping pucks alive at the line, and 21 assists is a fair return for a man whose job is the other end.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 207, and he defends almost entirely without body contact. He boxes out in front of his own net, he does not hit, and he is essentially never out of position badly enough to need to.
8 penalty minutes in 80 games, in 1,359 five-on-five minutes against the best forwards in the league, is one of the more remarkable statistical facts in this edition.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick, ten seasons in one organisation, and a career of being the answer to “who is the best defensive defenceman alive” among people who watch closely and nobody else.
At 31 there is no visible decline. The one thing his record lacks is a Cup, and the club has now been eliminated in the conference final three times in six years.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- 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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.10 penalty minutes a game over 80, 2nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He takes pucks off attackers without contact, which is why the penalty total is what it is, and he does it at the exact moment a play is about to become dangerous.”
“The first pass is quick and accurate and the skating is good enough to recover from anything.”
“He boxes out in front of his own net, he does not hit, and he is essentially never out of position badly enough to need to.”
“6-3 and 207, and he defends almost entirely without body contact.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,359 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.8%
- 93rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 58.1%
- 96th 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: 59 for, 58 against. Expected: 64.1 and 50.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 80 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 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 24.2 mph
- 100th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.71 a game
- Distance
- 2.92 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.3 mph
- 80th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 · 1359 minutes at five-on-five
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
- CAR took 55.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.8% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,359 minutes at five-on-five — 94th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brent Burns | 56.5% | 51.3% | 39.9% |
| Jordan Martinook | 56.7% | 55.2% | 56.1% |
| Jordan Staal | 56.0% | 55.6% | 56.0% |
56.5% together, 51.3% for him apart and 39.9% for Burns 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
204 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 31 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.