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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 Thompson

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Jack Thompson

Vancouver Canucks Defense #26

31 games, 4 goals, and 10 points.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24TBL/SJS3000-2000040.015:40
2024-25SJS314610-910000419.815:47
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—344610-1110000458.915:46

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

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

4 goals and 6 assists in 31 games — 10 points, minus-9, at 15:47 a night with only 10 penalty minutes.

10 points in 34 career games.

The Finesse Game

41 shots on goal in 31 games produced 4 goals, which is a high conversion for a young defenceman and almost certainly not a repeatable one.

6 assists in 31 games is a fair third-pair rate. The puck-moving is the reason he is here — the first pass is quick and he is comfortable carrying under pressure.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 189 pounds, and light. 10 penalty minutes in 31 games is a low rate.

He does not clear a crease and loses net-front battles. The skating is good and the defending is the part that has kept him in the minors this long.

The Intangibles

A note on what is missing: he does not appear in the 5-on-5 on-ice files, so there are no chance-share or possession figures on this page.

The box score is all there is, and on a club that conceded 210 goals at 5-on-5 a minus-9 in 31 games is not information.

He is 24, a 93rd overall pick who came from Tampa, and this is a seventh defenceman’s page on a blue line already carrying 22-year-olds.