Jack Johnson
Columbus Blue Jackets Defense
One thousand one hundred and eighty-seven games, thirty-seven years old, and a plus-fifteen.
| 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 | CHI/COL | 83 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -15 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 2.2 | 19:09 |
| 2023-24 | COL | 80 | 3 | 13 | 16 | +15 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 4.0 | 14:56 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1187 | 77 | 259 | 336 | -114 | 637 | 29 | 1 | 11 | 1656 | 4.7 | 21:12 |
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
3 goals and 13 assists in 80 games for Colorado — 16 points at 14:56 a night, plus-15, on 76 shots at 3.95 per cent, and 38 penalty minutes. He was 37.
47.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,118 minutes, the 37th percentile. His ice went 57-48 against an expectation of 43.60-47.45 — thirteen goals scored above expectation, on a club that was second in the league in finishing.
The Finesse Game
76 attempts at a median of 54 feet, with 73 per cent from beyond 40 and 4 per cent from inside 20, converting at 3.95 per cent. Seventy-seven goals in 1,187 games.
13 assists. He does not carry the puck out and the first pass is short and defensive, and 259 career assists across eighteen seasons is the whole of the offensive record.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 225. He blocks shots and he will go to the front of his own net, and the defending is honest positional work from a man who no longer has the feet for anything else.
38 penalty minutes in 80 games and 637 in 1,187 for his career. He does not retaliate and he does not take liberties.
The Intangibles
Third overall in 2005 by Carolina, out of Michigan, and 1,187 games across eighteen seasons for six clubs, with a career minus-114 and a Stanley Cup with Colorado in 2022.
He is 37 and was signed here in the summer. A club that was 31st in the league at suppressing chances has added a 37-year-old third-pairing defenceman, and the plus-15 came from the ice in front of him rather than from anything he did.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,118 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 37th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49%
- 45th 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: 57 for, 48 against. Expected: 43.6 and 47.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 11 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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 58 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 with COL · 1118 minutes at five-on-five
- Josh Manson23%
- Caleb Jonesnow LAK16%
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
- COL took 52.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 4.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,118 minutes at five-on-five — 75th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Colton | 51.8% | 45.9% | 53.6% |
| Miles Wood | 50.5% | 46.5% | 49.4% |
| Josh Manson | 55.3% | 45.5% | 52.9% |
51.8% together, 45.9% for him apart and 53.6% for Colton apart. He was worse away from Colton, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Colton 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
107 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 35 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 73% from beyond forty.