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Jack Drury

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Jack Drury

Nashville Predators Center #18

Plus-fifteen and the ninety-eighth percentile, from a fourth-line centre.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2682101727+15310009910.114:29
Career268305282+261023033738.012:57

Last Season

Ten goals and 17 assists in all 82 games — 27 points, plus-15, at 14:29 a night with 31 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Colorado.

The Finesse Game

Modest and well placed. A hundred and forty-eight unblocked attempts, ten goals, median 25 feet with 34 per cent from inside twenty.

Eighty-two points in 268 career games. He is not going to score and the club is not asking; the seventeen assists come from playing a simple, quick supporting game.

The Physical Game

Five foot eleven, 186, and he plays a hard checking game for his size. Thirty-one penalty minutes.

He wins faceoffs and kills penalties, which for a fourth-line centre is the entire job description.

The Intangibles

Fifty-eight point three per cent of the expected goals — 98th percentile — across 997 minutes, with the chances 43.2 to 30.8 in his favour.

The caveat is loud: Colorado was the second-best possession team in the league and this was a sheltered checking role inside it. Every Avalanche forward in this book carries a number like that.

Still: plus-15 with the chances agreeing is a real season, and a fourth-line centre who does not sink a line is worth having on a Nashville club whose bottom six was outchanced all year.

He is 26, a second-round pick, and the son of an NHL general manager. Ask again after a season here.