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Jack Johnson

A thousand and twenty-four games, a career minus-114, and a median shot from 55 feet.

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

2006-07	LAK	5	0	0	0	-5	18	0	0	0	5	0.0	21:23
2007-08	LAK	74	3	8	11	-19	76	0	0	0	81	3.7	21:42
2008-09	LAK	41	6	5	11	-18	46	3	0	0	50	12.0	20:17
2009-10	LAK	80	8	28	36	-15	48	3	0	0	130	6.2	22:37
2010-11	LAK	82	5	37	42	-21	44	3	0	0	153	3.3	23:12
2011-12	LAK/CBJ	82	12	26	38	-7	39	5	0	5	176	6.8	23:46
2012-13	CBJ	44	5	14	19	-5	12	3	0	1	96	5.2	25:58
2013-14	CBJ	82	5	28	33	-7	48	4	0	0	147	3.4	24:41
2014-15	CBJ	79	8	32	40	-13	44	3	0	1	141	5.7	24:10
2015-16	CBJ	60	6	8	14	-16	25	3	0	2	86	7.0	24:11
2016-17	CBJ	82	5	18	23	+23	32	1	0	1	116	4.3	21:49
2017-18	CBJ	77	3	8	11	-6	22	0	0	1	88	3.4	19:33
2018-19	PIT	82	1	12	13	-4	41	1	0	0	86	1.2	19:17
2019-20	PIT	67	3	8	11	-1	26	0	1	0	63	4.8	19:28
2020-21	NYR	13	1	0	1	-5	8	0	0	0	13	7.7	16:58
2021-22	COL	74	1	8	9	+5	42	0	0	0	57	1.8	16:45
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1024	72	240	312	-114	571	29	1	11	1488	4.8	21:51

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

1 goal and 8 assists in 74 games for Colorado — 9 points at 16:45 a night, plus-5, with 42 penalty minutes. He signed here in the summer.

46.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,085 minutes, the 25th percentile among defencemen. His ice went 37-36 against an expectation of 40.04-45.94 — ten fewer goals against than the chances promised, on the club that won the Stanley Cup.

The plus-5 is his first positive season since 2016-17 and it was earned on the club that won the Stanley Cup.

The Finesse Game

2.76 shots per 60 is the 6th percentile among defencemen and 1.8 per cent shooting is the 10th — one goal in 74 games. 0.44 even-strength points per 60 is the 4th percentile.

His median shot travels 55 feet, the 96th percentile for distance among defencemen, with 6 per cent from the slot at the 13th. He shoots from the wall, into shins, and 96.8 mph does not help from there.

0.48 takeaways per 60 is the 8th percentile against 1.16 giveaways at the 12th — he neither wins pucks nor loses them, because he moves them the moment he has them.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 225, 4.41 hits and 3.29 blocks per 60, the 54th and 21st percentiles among defencemen. He is heavy and does not block much, which is an odd combination for a defensive defenceman.

21.1 mph is the 10th percentile among defencemen and 8.15 miles per 60 is the 18th. He is 35 and it is entirely visible in the tracking.

The Intangibles

Third overall in 2005 by Carolina, sixteen seasons across six clubs, and 1,024 NHL games with a career minus-114.

With Nazem Kadri on the ice Colorado took 51.4 per cent of the chances and Johnson without him was at 44.5, across 626 attempts together. He arrives on a rebuilding club that has just shipped out four of its top six forwards, and the role is a veteran seventh defenceman who plays sixty games because there is nobody else.

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
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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
86.4% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 98th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
36% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 3rd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He is heavy and does not block much, which is an odd combination for a defensive defenceman.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,085 minutes

Expected goals: 46.6%; 28th pct
Shot attempts: 48.1%; 38th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 37 for, 36 against. Expected: 40.0 and 45.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

4th

Numbers

28th

The numbers rank him 24 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 47 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, 2021-22 · 74 games

Top speed: 21.1 mph; 31st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.30 a game
Distance: 2.28 miles a game
Hardest shot: 96.8 mph; 82nd 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

2021-22 with COL · 1085 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, 2021-22

The club: COL took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.6% — 5.3 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,085 minutes at five-on-five — 74th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Nazem Kadri	51.4%	44.5%	56.7%
Andre Burakovsky	43.5%	47.8%	56.7%
Erik Johnson	47.0%	46.4%	51.9%

51.4% together, 44.5% for him apart and 56.7% for Kadri apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Kadri and did not follow 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

81 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 86% from beyond forty.