Jacob Moverare
Los Angeles Kings Defense
A 57.7 per cent chance share in 530 minutes, and 0 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | LAK | 19 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0.0 | 16:20 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 14:58 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9.1 | 10:27 |
| 2024-25 | LAK | 49 | 1 | 7 | 8 | +2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 3.3 | 11:52 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 94 | 2 | 9 | 11 | +4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 3.2 | 12:28 |
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
1 goal and 7 assists in 49 games for 8 points, plus-2, on 11:52 a night.
57.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 97th percentile, over 530 minutes in the smallest defensive role on the club. His on-ice goals were 36-24 against an expected 22.6-16.6, which is 13 goals of finishing above expectation on a very small sample.
Not one of his 30 shots came from inside 20 feet.
The Finesse Game
None. 30 shots in 49 games, 1 goal, and 84 per cent of the attempts from beyond 40 feet — the offensive contribution is keeping a puck alive at the line.
7 assists is what a seventh defenceman produces. There is nothing to project.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 205, and he defends properly. He boxes out, takes contact, and blocks shots without theatre.
10 penalty minutes over 49 games. Disciplined and rarely beaten badly.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick, seven American League seasons, and a genuine NHL role at 26 on a club that values exactly what he does.
The projection is a seventh defenceman who plays 50 games. On a club that concedes the fewest chances in the league, a man who does one thing and never attempts a second is worth having.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 530 minutes
- Expected goals
- 57.7%
- 97th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.1%
- 83rd 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: 36 for, 24 against. Expected: 22.6 and 16.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 79 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 · 530 minutes at five-on-five
- Jordan Spencenow OTT67%
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
- LAK took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 57.7% — 3.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 530 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Spence | 59.7% | 53.5% | 53.5% |
| Kevin Fiala | 63.3% | 54.6% | 56.8% |
| Alex Laferriere | 62.0% | 55.6% | 54.6% |
59.7% together, 53.5% for him apart and 53.5% for Spence 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
43 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 46 feet. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 84% from beyond forty.