This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Jack McBain
Utah Hockey Club Center
A sixteen-foot median attempt at 6-4, and 26 points in 67 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | ARI | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 15.4 | 14:11 |
| 2022-23 | ARI | 82 | 12 | 14 | 26 | -8 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 85 | 14.1 | 13:59 |
| 2023-24 | ARI | 67 | 8 | 18 | 26 | +8 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 56 | 14.3 | 12:37 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 159 | 22 | 33 | 55 | -6 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 154 | 14.3 | 13:25 |
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
67 games, 8 goals and 18 assists for 26 points, 50 penalty minutes, 12:37 a night and plus-8, with 2 game-winners. He took 50.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 731 minutes, the 56th percentile, and his ice went 38-31 against an expectation of 30.80-30.27.
Seven goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and level at the other end. Twenty-six points in 67 games at twelve and a half minutes a night is the same total he managed in 82 games the season before.
The Finesse Game
88 attempts at a median of 16 feet with 59 per cent of them from inside twenty and 10 per cent from beyond forty, 56 of those on goal, converted at 14.3 per cent against the same figure for his career.
Twenty-two career goals and 33 assists in 159 games. Fifty-nine per cent of his attempts came from inside twenty feet and only ten from beyond forty, which at 6-4 and 219 pounds is a man who does not shoot from anywhere he has not walked to.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 219 and took 50 penalty minutes.
120 career penalty minutes in 159 games. He is heavy, forechecks straight into the defenceman, and wins pucks below the goal line by refusing to be moved off them.
The Intangibles
Sixty-third overall in 2018 by Minnesota, three seasons, and Utah is his second organisation.
A career minus-6 in 159 games. He was a third-round pick by a club he never played for and has held a third-line job here for two full seasons.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 731 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.4%
- 56th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.5%
- 51st 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: 38 for, 31 against. Expected: 30.8 and 30.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 24 points above where the numbers do. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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 ARI · 731 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, 2023-24
- The club
- ARI took 48.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.4% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 731 minutes at five-on-five — 34th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Carcone | 49.8% | 50.7% | 42.1% |
| Liam O'Brien | 49.0% | 51.1% | 45.2% |
| J.J. Moser | 45.6% | 52.8% | 51.2% |
49.8% together, 50.7% for him apart and 42.1% for Carcone apart. Carcone was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Carcone 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
88 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 60% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 10% from beyond forty.