Jackson Blake
Carolina Hurricanes Right Wing
A fourth-round pick with 53 points, shooting from 18 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | CAR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 15:18 |
| 2024-25 | CAR | 80 | 17 | 17 | 34 | +10 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 142 | 12.0 | 13:51 |
| 2025-26 | CAR | 81 | 22 | 31 | 53 | +4 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 174 | 12.6 | 16:30 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 162 | 39 | 48 | 87 | +12 | 70 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 318 | 12.3 | 15:11 |
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
22 goals and 31 assists in 81 games — 53 points, plus-4, at 16:30 a night. 9 points in his last 10 games.
The Finesse Game
The shot selection is the best on a club full of good shot selection. 52 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet and only 7 per cent from beyond 40, with a median of 18 — the shortest average distance of any Hurricane forward.
That is a 5-11 winger who has decided the outside is not worth his time. 25 goals came out of 280 attempts, and the rate will hold because the ice he shoots from does not depend on luck.
The passing is quick and unselfish. 31 assists in a middle-6 role.
The Physical Game
5-11, 185, and he takes a beating to be where he is. 40 penalty minutes is a small forward who does not back down.
He is not moving anybody. He is arriving before the defenceman decides to move him, which is a different and entirely legitimate skill.
The Intangibles
57.9 per cent of the expected goals — 98th percentile — and 60.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 99th, with the goals 49-41 in his favour across 1,126 minutes.
a 109th overall pick in 2021, 162 games in, and already one of the better two-way wingers in the league by the numbers. He is 23.
Carolina has 3 top-6 forwards under 25 who are all under 6 feet and all shoot from inside 20. That is not an accident and it is the most interesting roster construction in the book.
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
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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,126 minutes
- Expected goals
- 57.9%
- 97th pct
- Shot attempts
- 60.4%
- 99th 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: 49 for, 41 against. Expected: 60.6 and 44.1.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 24 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.
Both 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 — 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 21.8 mph
- 29th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.83 a game
- Distance
- 2.79 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.2 mph
- 46th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
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
9
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 7 assists, 21 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1126 minutes at five-on-five
- Taylor Hall56%
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
- CAR took 55.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 57.9% — 2.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,126 minutes at five-on-five — 75th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logan Stankoven | 59.6% | 48.5% | 53.8% |
| Taylor Hall | 58.0% | 57.7% | 53.5% |
| Alexander Nikishin | 56.7% | 58.6% | 53.4% |
59.6% together, 48.5% for him apart and 53.8% for Stankoven apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
280 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 25 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 52% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.