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Jack Drury
Colorado Avalanche Center
A 54.9 per cent chance share in a fourth-line role, which is the sort of number that gets a man promoted.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | CAR | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 33.3 | 15:58 |
| 2022-23 | CAR | 38 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 69 | 2.9 | 10:47 |
| 2023-24 | CAR | 74 | 8 | 19 | 27 | +4 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 106 | 7.5 | 12:17 |
| 2024-25 | CAR/COL | 72 | 8 | 10 | 18 | +1 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 93 | 8.6 | 12:55 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 186 | 20 | 35 | 55 | +11 | 71 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 274 | 7.3 | 12:16 |
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
8 goals and 10 assists in 72 games for 18 points between Carolina and Colorado, plus-1, on 12:55 a night.
53.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 83rd percentile, and on-ice goals of 23-25 against an expected 29-25. In the fewest minutes of any forward who played a full season here, he had the second-best chance share on the club.
The Finesse Game
A centre who wins the puck rather than one who does anything ornamental with it. The skating is quick in short bursts, the reads on the forecheck are the best part of the game, and he gets to loose pucks a step before the man he is racing.
The offence is real but small. 93 shots from a median of 30 feet, spread evenly between the interior and the point — he shoots when the shot is there and does not manufacture one. 18 points is a fair reflection of the finishing.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 186, and he plays bigger than that on the forecheck, where he is willing to take a hit to make the first man commit. He is not a hitter and does not need to be.
22 penalty minutes over 72 games. The body has held up — three straight seasons above 70.
The Intangibles
The other man in the Rantanen trade, and the one Colorado may end up more pleased with per dollar. He arrived and immediately took the defensive-zone draws.
At 25 there is a real question whether the chance share is him or the linemates, and the honest answer is that it followed him from Carolina, which is the club that most reliably makes ordinary players look like this. Colorado is betting it is him. He has one more season to prove it before the price goes up.
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.
- 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.
“the reads on the forecheck are the best part of the game, and he gets to loose pucks a step before the man he is racing.”
“He arrived and immediately took the defensive-zone draws.”
“He is not a hitter and does not need to be.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 731 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.7%
- 83rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 57.8%
- 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: 23 for, 25 against. Expected: 29.5 and 25.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 23 points above where the report does. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 74 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 · 72 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 85th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.60 a game
- Distance
- 2.04 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.7 mph
- 83rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 with CAR · 415 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
- COL took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.7% — 0.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 731 minutes at five-on-five — 31st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Blake | 59.0% | 51.2% | 61.9% |
| Ross Colton | 53.0% | 54.0% | 54.2% |
| Sean Walker | 57.0% | 52.8% | 56.8% |
59.0% together, 51.2% for him apart and 61.9% for Blake apart. He was worse away from Blake, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Blake did.
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
150 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 27% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 29% from beyond forty.