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Jack Eichel

94 points, 66 assists, a plus-32, and 8 penalty minutes in 77 games.

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

2015-16	BUF	81	24	32	56	-16	22	8	0	5	238	10.1	19:07
2016-17	BUF	61	24	33	57	-13	22	10	0	4	249	9.6	19:55
2017-18	BUF	67	25	39	64	-25	32	3	0	4	246	10.2	20:09
2018-19	BUF	77	28	54	82	-11	26	8	0	2	303	9.2	20:26
2019-20	BUF	68	36	42	78	+5	34	11	1	9	227	15.9	22:06
2020-21	BUF	21	2	16	18	-9	6	1	0	1	61	3.3	20:30
2021-22	VGK	34	14	11	25	+3	10	3	0	2	133	10.5	19:24
2022-23	VGK	67	27	39	66	+26	6	2	0	2	223	12.1	18:46
2023-24	VGK	63	31	37	68	+4	27	11	0	7	278	11.2	20:31
2024-25	VGK	77	28	66	94	+32	8	5	1	3	233	12.0	20:32
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	616	239	369	608	-4	193	62	2	39	2191	10.9	20:09

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

28 goals and 66 assists in 77 games — 94 points at 20:32 a night, plus-32, with 5 power-play goals, a shorthanded goal and 3 game-winners on 233 shots, and 8 penalty minutes.

55.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 81st percentile. His ice went 68-41 against an expectation of 55.06-45.11 — nine goals of scoring missing and four fewer conceded.

The Finesse Game

The skating is the best of any centre in the league and it is not an argument — he crosses the blue line at a speed that forces a defenceman to give ground, and he does it without straightening up.

233 attempts at a median of 30 feet with 33 per cent from inside 20, converting at 12.0 per cent. 66 assists is the number: he carries the puck into the zone and gives it up a beat after the defence has committed to him, which is the hardest pass in hockey to defend.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 208 and he is not a physical player, and he does not need to be. He protects the puck with his speed rather than his body.

8 penalty minutes in 77 games at twenty and a half minutes a night is close to the lowest total of any first-line centre in this edition. He does not foul, he does not retaliate, and on the club that spent the least time shorthanded in the league that is not a coincidence.

The Intangibles

Second overall in 2015 and 616 games and 608 points, six seasons of it in Buffalo on hockey teams that lost constantly.

He had an artificial disc replacement in his neck in 2021 that no NHL player had undergone before, forced a trade to get it, and has produced 94 points at 28. He was the best player at the Four Nations for the United States. He is 29.

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 77, 3rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
15:04 a game at five-on-five, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“he crosses the blue line at a speed that forces a defenceman to give ground, and he does it without straightening up.”
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“**66 assists is the number**: he carries the puck into the zone and gives it up a beat after the defence has committed to him, which is the hardest pass in hockey to defend.”
fouls-when-beatena strength· the stick foul that follows losing a step
“**8 penalty minutes in 77 games at twenty and a half minutes a night** is close to the lowest total of any first-line centre in this edition.”
retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“He does not foul, he does not retaliate, and on the club that spent the least time shorthanded in the league that is not a coincidence.”
punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“6-2 and 208 and he is not a physical player, and he does not need to be.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,160 minutes

Expected goals: 55%; 90th pct
Shot attempts: 51.4%; 68th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 68 for, 41 against. Expected: 55.1 and 45.1.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

99th

Numbers

90th

The two rank him within 9 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 — 86 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 · 77 games

Top speed: 23.5 mph; 96th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 4.52 a game
Distance: 3.36 miles a game
Hardest shot: 94.1 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1160 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: VGK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.0% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,160 minutes at five-on-five — 81st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ivan Barbashev	53.6%	58.0%	54.5%
Mark Stone	55.4%	54.3%	61.3%
Shea Theodore	54.6%	55.2%	53.3%

53.6% together, 58.0% for him apart and 54.5% for Barbashev apart. He was better away from Barbashev, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Barbashev.

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

293 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 30 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 33% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.