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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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Jacob Quillan

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Jacob Quillan

Toronto Maple Leafs Center #26

Undrafted, 23 games, and the 1st percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2024-25TOR1000000000—5:21
2025-26TOR23123-52000147.110:16
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—24123-52000147.110:04

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

1 goal and 2 assists in 23 games — 3 points, minus-5, at 10:16 a night with 2 penalty minutes. His first NHL season, at 24.

The Finesse Game

23 unblocked attempts, 1 goal, median 29 feet with 30 per cent from inside 20. 3 points in 24 career games.

There is very little here yet, and 23 games at 10 minutes a night is not enough to say what there might be.

The Physical Game

6-1, 204, and solidly built. 2 penalty minutes in 23 games is remarkably low.

He is a positional centre who wins his share of draws and does not seek contact. The skating is fair.

The Intangibles

35.5 per cent of the expected goals, 0th percentile, and 38.8 per cent of the shot attempts, also first, across 204 minutes.

Those are among the worst figures in this book and the sample is 200 minutes, so the honest weight to put on them is very little.

3 points in his last 10, one a goal. He is 24, undrafted out of Quinnipiac and a national champion there, and this is a thirteenth-forward page. On a club with Toronto’s problems, thirteenth forwards get games.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 204 minutes

Expected goals
35.5%
0th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
38.8%
1st pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 6 for, 11 against. Expected: 4.8 and 8.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
19th
Numbers
0th

The two rank him within 19 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 — 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 23 games

Top speed
22.6 mph
67th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.39 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.72 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
82.4 mph
32nd pct

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 13 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

3

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 2 assists, 10 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 204 minutes at five-on-five

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
TOR took 46.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 35.5% — 10.8 below the club he did it on.
The role
204 minutes at five-on-five — 0th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Steven Lorentz34.6%36.3%46.7%
Simon Benoit32.7%37.0%42.6%
Morgan Rielly43.2%32.0%48.5%

34.6% together, 36.3% for him apart and 46.7% for Lorentz apart. Lorentz was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.

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

23 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 26% from beyond forty.