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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Jack Roslovic

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Jack Roslovic

Toronto Maple Leafs Center #28

595 games, 21 goals, and the 77th percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2016-17WPG1000-1000010.08:24
2017-18WPG315914+520013813.212:19
2018-19WPG7791524-245007412.29:45
2019-20WPG71121729+41210011710.314:54
2020-21CBJ48122234-11144018514.116:54
2021-22CBJ81222345+21240413116.814:17
2022-23CBJ77113344-14102221238.916:27
2023-24CBJ/NYR5992231-10160131177.715:33
2024-25CAR81221739-101010213915.813:49
2025-26EDM69211536-91640514114.915:46
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—595123173296-46962131896612.714:23

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

21 goals and 15 assists in 69 games — 36 points, minus-9, at 15:46 a night with 4 power-play goals and only 16 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Edmonton.

His 595th career game.

The Finesse Game

A skilled, quick forward whose production has never quite matched the tools. 221 unblocked attempts, 21 goals, median 27 feet with 35 per cent from inside 20.

15 assists in 69 games is thin for a player with his hands, and 296 points in 595 career games is the rate of a useful third-liner rather than the top-6 forward he keeps being signed as.

The Physical Game

6-1, 198, and he does not engage. 16 penalty minutes in 69 games is very low.

There is no forechecking game and no wall work. The skating is genuinely good and it is used to find space rather than to take it.

The Intangibles

50.9 per cent of the expected goals, 62nd percentile, and 52.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 79th, across 981 minutes in Edmonton, with the goals 45-47 against.

That goal margin is Edmonton’s goaltending, which finished 16 goals worse than its chances.

He is 29, a 25th overall pick, and joins a club where a 55th percentile would have been the best figure in the lineup. Whether that survives the move is the same question this whole section keeps asking.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 981 minutes

Expected goals
50.9%
63rd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.6%
79th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 45 for, 47 against. Expected: 45.1 and 43.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
38th
Numbers
63rd
Blind
23rd

The numbers rank him 25 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 40 points from the numbers; this one lands 25. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.

All three bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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, 2025-26 · 69 games

Top speed
22.8 mph
76th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
2.70 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.46 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
86.9 mph
62nd pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

7

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 3 assists, 24 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with EDM · 981 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, 2025-26

The club
EDM took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.9% — 0.7 below the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 981 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Darnell Nurse50.8%51.0%48.6%
Jake Walman45.4%53.7%45.4%
Leon Draisaitl50.9%51.0%56.2%

50.8% together, 51.0% for him apart and 48.6% for Nurse apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

221 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.