Armchair Scout
Jacob Quillan

Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY 4.0

Jacob Quillan

Toronto Maple Leafs Center #26

Undrafted, twenty-three games, and the first percentile.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2623123-52000147.110:16
Career24123-52000147.110:04

Last Season

One goal and two assists in 23 games — three points, minus-five, at 10:16 a night with two penalty minutes. His first NHL season, at 24.

The Finesse Game

Twenty-three unblocked attempts, one goal, median 29 feet with 30 per cent from inside twenty. Three points in 24 career games.

There is very little here yet, and twenty-three games at ten minutes a night is not enough to say what there might be.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 204, and solidly built. Two 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

Thirty-eight point two per cent of the expected goals, first percentile, and 39.3 per cent of the shot attempts, also first, across 204 minutes.

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

Three points in his last ten, 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
38.2%
1st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
39.3%
1st pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 9 for, 10 against. Expected: 5.3 and 8.5.

The eye and the numbers

Report
66
Numbers
1

The numbers are colder on him than this report is — worth asking who he played with, and against whom.

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.

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.