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Jacob Bernard-Docker
Detroit Red Wings Defense
40 games, 8 points, and a right-shot depth defenceman acquired at the deadline for nothing much.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | OTT | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 13:40 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 14:46 |
| 2022-23 | OTT | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0.0 | 16:01 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 72 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -7 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 7.8 | 15:42 |
| 2024-25 | OTT/BUF | 40 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 6.3 | 13:37 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 144 | 6 | 18 | 24 | -1 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 5.1 | 15:02 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
2 goals and 6 assists in 40 games for 8 points, plus-5, on 13:37 a night between Ottawa and Detroit.
32 shots in 40 games. A third-pair role on two clubs and a set of numbers that says very little either way.
The Finesse Game
Modest and adequate. The first pass is clean, he does not panic under a forecheck, and there is no offensive game — 8 points in 40 games is his career rate.
He was a first-round pick partly on a puck-moving projection that has settled into competence.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 196, and honest. He defends his net front reasonably, takes contact, and does not initiate.
17 penalty minutes over 40 games. Nothing careless.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick, five NHL seasons of third-pair work, and a deadline trade at 25 that cost very little.
The projection is a sixth or seventh defenceman. On a blue line that has Chiarot and Travis Hamonic both over 34, having a 25-year-old right shot who can play is worth having.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 475 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.1%
- 54th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.2%
- 56th 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: 28 for, 18 against. Expected: 17.1 and 17.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 36 points above where the report does. 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 66 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
2024-25 with OTT · 323 minutes at five-on-five
- Tyler Kleven80%
- Thomas Chabot14%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- BUF took 47.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.1% — 2.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 475 minutes at five-on-five — 14th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Kleven | 45.5% | 54.9% | 44.3% |
| Noah Gregor | 39.9% | 52.6% | 41.1% |
| Nick Cousins | 51.2% | 49.8% | 49.7% |
45.5% together, 54.9% for him apart and 44.3% for Kleven apart. He was better away from Kleven, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Kleven.
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
55 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 44 feet. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 82% from beyond forty.