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Jacob Trouba
Anaheim Ducks Defense
A captaincy stripped in New York, a trade in December, and a 44.9 per cent chance share to end the season with.
| 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 | NYR/ANA | 77 | 1 | 13 | 14 | -8 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 0.9 | 20:31 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 825 | 74 | 249 | 323 | +48 | 670 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 1728 | 4.3 | 22:14 |
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 13 assists in 77 games for 14 points, minus-8, on 20:31 a night between the Rangers and Anaheim.
44.4 per cent at five-on-five, the 13th percentile, over 1,311 minutes. His on-ice goals were 50-69 against an expected 50-63 — six goals of goaltending against him, and he finished well under water on the scoreboard.
The Finesse Game
There is very little. 111 shots and 1 goal, 81 per cent of the attempts from beyond 40 feet, and a first pass that is safe when it works and dangerous when it does not.
He was never a puck-mover and the gap has widened as the league has got faster. The reads are a beat late now, and a defenceman whose game was built on stepping up cannot afford that.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 212, and this is what remains. He hits as hard as anyone in the league and he will still take a run at a forward who has his head down.
66 penalty minutes. Some of it is the price of the style and some of it is a defenceman reaching after being beaten, and on a club with the 29th penalty kill it is expensive either way.
The Intangibles
A captaincy in the largest market in the league, taken away publicly, and a trade three months later. He handled it with more grace than the situation offered.
At 31 with a large contract and a 14th-percentile chance share, the honest reading is that he is being paid for a player who no longer exists. Anaheim took the contract to acquire an asset elsewhere, and there is a version of him — 18 minutes, third pair, penalty kill — that is genuinely useful.
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 as hard as anyone in the league and he will still take a run at a forward who has his head down.”
“He was never a puck-mover and the gap has widened as the league has got faster.”
“some of it is a defenceman reaching after being beaten”
“He handled it with more grace than the situation offered.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,311 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.4%
- 14th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.6%
- 10th 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: 50 for, 69 against. Expected: 50.5 and 63.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 637 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, 2024-25 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 84th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.19 a game
- Distance
- 2.80 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.9 mph
- 77th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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
2024-25 · 919 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, 2024-25
- The club
- ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.4% — 0.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,311 minutes at five-on-five — 92nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olen Zellweger | 47.2% | 43.4% | 47.6% |
| Pavel Mintyukov | 39.8% | 45.7% | 44.4% |
| Alex Killorn | 45.6% | 44.1% | 48.6% |
47.2% together, 43.4% for him apart and 47.6% for Zellweger apart. He was worse away from Zellweger, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Zellweger did.
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
160 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 81% from beyond forty.