Jacob Peterson
Dallas Stars Center
Twelve goals and five assists as a rookie at eleven minutes a night, and five of the twelve won the game.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | DAL | 65 | 12 | 5 | 17 | -1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 85 | 14.1 | 11:04 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 65 | 12 | 5 | 17 | -1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 85 | 14.1 | 11:04 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
12 goals and 5 assists in 65 games — 17 points, a minus-1 and 12 penalty minutes at 11:04 a night, the 7th percentile among forwards. Five of the twelve goals won the game.
49.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 662 minutes, the 49th percentile, against 45.4 per cent of the attempts, the 13th. That gap is the shape of a fourth line that gets outshot and gets the better chances.
The Finesse Game
Twelve goals and five assists is a ratio almost no forward posts. At this ice time it is mostly noise, and what it is not is a playmaker: twelve of his seventeen points were goals.
7.09 shots per 60 is the 47th percentile and twelve on 85 is 14.1 per cent, the 74th. 55 per cent came from the slot at a median of 22 feet — a fourth-line rookie shooting from the right places.
1.43 even-strength points per 60 is the 28th percentile and 0:43 a night on the power play is the 29th.
84.5 mph is the 14th percentile — the softest shot of any Dallas forward the tracking qualifies, which sits oddly beside twelve goals and is worth remembering when the finishing comes back to earth.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 180, which is light.
1.84 hits per 60 is the 17th percentile and 1.92 blocks the 60th. He does not play a contact game and at that weight there is no argument that he should.
22.9 mph is the 78th percentile and 9.37 miles per 60 is the 27th — quick enough, covering little, on eleven minutes.
0.50 penalties taken per 60 is the 33rd percentile, twelve minutes in sixty-five games.
The Intangibles
One hundred and thirty-second overall in 2017, the fifth round, and this was his first NHL season at 22.
With Alexander Radulov he took 54.0 per cent of the chances over 662 attempts and 44.6 without him — and Radulov is not on this roster, which makes the best number on his page a departed one.
Twelve goals from a fifth-round rookie at eleven minutes is a genuinely good first season. The five game-winners are the kind of figure a club talks itself into, and the shot speed and the assist column are the reasons to be careful about it.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 662 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.5%
- 53rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.4%
- 17th 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: 23 for, 22 against. Expected: 28.2 and 28.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 50 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 46 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, 2021-22 · 65 games
- Top speed
- 22.9 mph
- 86th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.77 a game
- Distance
- 1.73 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.5 mph
- 36th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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.
Usual linemates
2021-22 · 662 minutes at five-on-five
- Alexander Radulovoff the roster55%
- Tyler Seguin26%
- Jamie Benn23%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- DAL took 51.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.5% — 1.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 662 minutes at five-on-five — 28th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Radulov | 54.0% | 44.6% | 50.6% |
| Ryan Suter | 49.5% | 49.5% | 52.0% |
| John Klingberg | 45.2% | 51.7% | 52.7% |
54.0% together, 44.6% for him apart and 50.6% for Radulov 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
112 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.