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Jack Hughes
New Jersey Devils Center
First overall in 2019, 281 points in 306 games, and sixty-two of eighty-two again.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | NJD | 61 | 7 | 14 | 21 | -26 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 123 | 5.7 | 15:52 |
| 2020-21 | NJD | 56 | 11 | 20 | 31 | -3 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 142 | 7.8 | 19:04 |
| 2021-22 | NJD | 49 | 26 | 30 | 56 | -16 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 165 | 15.8 | 19:34 |
| 2022-23 | NJD | 78 | 43 | 56 | 99 | +10 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 336 | 12.8 | 19:58 |
| 2023-24 | NJD | 62 | 27 | 47 | 74 | -12 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 274 | 9.8 | 20:58 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 306 | 114 | 167 | 281 | -47 | 44 | 29 | 0 | 15 | 1040 | 11.0 | 19:07 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
62 games, 27 goals and 47 assists for 74 points, 9 on the power play, 12 penalty minutes, 20:58 a night and minus-12. He took 53.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 992 minutes, the 76th percentile, and his ice went 43-47 against an expectation of 47.98-42.31.
Five goals of scoring that did not arrive and five more conceded than the chances called for. Seventy-four points in sixty-two games, after 99 in 78 the season before — the rate barely moved and twenty games did.
The Finesse Game
274 shots at a median of 26 feet with 31 per cent from inside 20, converted at 9.9 per cent against a career 10.96.
167 career assists in 306 games. He is the fastest player on this roster and probably one of the five fastest in the league; the whole of his game is carrying the puck through the neutral zone at speed and making the decision late. The shot is better than the conversion rate suggests.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 175 and is knocked off the puck by anybody who catches him.
12 penalty minutes in 62 games is almost nothing. He does not forecheck by force, does not win the wall, and does not kill penalties — 0 career shorthanded goals in 306 games.
The Intangibles
First overall in 2019 out of Orlando, five seasons, and 281 points in 306 games, all of it for one organisation. His brother Luke is on this blue line and his brother Quinn is in Vancouver.
He is 23 and has missed twenty games in two of his three full seasons. Everything about the player is first-line and the only question anybody asks about him is how many nights he will be available.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 992 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.1%
- 77th pct
- Shot attempts
- 55.7%
- 91st 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: 43 for, 47 against. Expected: 48.0 and 42.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 78 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 992 minutes at five-on-five
- Tyler Toffolinow SJS52%
- Erik Haula33%
- Jesper Bratt32%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- NJD took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.1% — 2.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 992 minutes at five-on-five — 56th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Toffoli | 54.2% | 52.0% | 51.0% |
| Luke Hughes | 55.1% | 51.6% | 50.4% |
| Erik Haula | 51.3% | 54.1% | 53.3% |
54.2% together, 52.0% for him apart and 51.0% for Toffoli apart. Toffoli was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Toffoli than for him.
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
357 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 27 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.