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Jacob Trouba
New York Rangers Defense
Six hundred and four career penalty minutes, 73 goals in 748 games, and a captaincy.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | WPG | 65 | 10 | 19 | 29 | +4 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 121 | 8.3 | 22:26 |
| 2014-15 | WPG | 65 | 7 | 15 | 22 | +2 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 133 | 5.3 | 23:19 |
| 2015-16 | WPG | 81 | 6 | 15 | 21 | +10 | 62 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 133 | 4.5 | 22:04 |
| 2016-17 | WPG | 60 | 8 | 25 | 33 | +4 | 54 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 154 | 5.2 | 24:58 |
| 2017-18 | WPG | 55 | 3 | 21 | 24 | +9 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 144 | 2.1 | 21:54 |
| 2018-19 | WPG | 82 | 8 | 42 | 50 | +8 | 58 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 162 | 4.9 | 22:53 |
| 2019-20 | NYR | 70 | 7 | 20 | 27 | -12 | 61 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 168 | 4.2 | 22:34 |
| 2020-21 | NYR | 38 | 2 | 10 | 12 | +3 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 2.9 | 21:29 |
| 2021-22 | NYR | 81 | 11 | 28 | 39 | +25 | 88 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 204 | 5.4 | 22:26 |
| 2022-23 | NYR | 82 | 8 | 22 | 30 | +7 | 63 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 199 | 4.0 | 21:12 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 69 | 3 | 19 | 22 | -4 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 2.3 | 21:15 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 748 | 73 | 236 | 309 | +56 | 604 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 1617 | 4.5 | 22:24 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
69 games, 3 goals and 19 assists for 22 points, 73 penalty minutes, 21:15 a night and minus-4. He took 47.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,219 minutes, the 37th percentile, and his ice went 44-55 against an expectation of 48.18-52.49.
Four goals of scoring that did not arrive and three more conceded than the chances called for. A 37th-percentile chance share on the top pair of a club that finished first is the least comfortable number in this chapter.
The Finesse Game
159 attempts at a median of 52 feet with 69 per cent from beyond 40, 129 on goal, converted at 2.3 per cent against a career 4.51.
236 career assists in 748 games. Three goals on a hundred and twenty-nine shots is half his career rate. He moves the puck simply and does not carry it, and the offence has been going for four seasons.
The Physical Game
He hits harder than anybody on this roster at 6-3 and 212, and 604 career penalty minutes in 748 games is what eleven seasons of it costs.
He will fight, clears the crease, takes liberties on men who have already been beaten, and cannot be moved from in front of his own net. He blocks shots and kills penalties with 4 career shorthanded goals.
The Intangibles
Ninth overall in 2012 out of Rochester, Michigan, eleven seasons across two organisations, 748 games and 309 points, and the captaincy of the New York Rangers since 2022.
He is 30 and took the top pair on a first-place club with the thirty-seventh percentile of chances. The hit is still the hit and the twenty-one minutes are becoming difficult to justify with anything else.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“He hits harder than anybody on this roster at 6-3 and 212, and 604 career penalty minutes in 748 games is what eleven seasons of it costs.”
“He will fight, clears the crease, takes liberties on men who have already been beaten, and cannot be moved from in front of his own net.”
“He will fight, clears the crease, takes liberties on men who have already been beaten, and cannot be moved from in front of his own net.”
“He will fight, clears the crease, takes liberties on men who have already been beaten, and cannot be moved from in front of his own net.”
“He will fight, clears the crease, takes liberties on men who have already been beaten, and cannot be moved from in front of his own net.”
“He blocks shots and kills penalties with 4 career shorthanded goals.”
“He blocks shots and kills penalties with 4 career shorthanded goals.”
“He moves the puck simply and does not carry it, and the offence has been going for four seasons.”
“Ninth overall in 2012 out of Rochester, Michigan, eleven seasons across two organisations, 748 games and 309 points, and the captaincy of the New York Rangers since 2022.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,219 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 38th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.6%
- 32nd 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: 44 for, 55 against. Expected: 48.2 and 52.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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, 2023-24 · 69 games
- Top speed
- 21.3 mph
- 34th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.25 a game
- Distance
- 2.84 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 98.5 mph
- 88th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 · 1219 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, 2023-24
- The club
- NYR took 50.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 2.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,219 minutes at five-on-five — 84th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| K'Andre Miller | 48.2% | 46.6% | 48.9% |
| Alexis Lafrenière | 52.4% | 45.5% | 57.1% |
| Artemi Panarin | 53.4% | 45.1% | 58.5% |
48.2% together, 46.6% for him apart and 48.9% for Miller apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
159 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.