Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Jaden Schwartz

Seattle Kraken Center

The closest shot chart on the club at 32, with a 16-foot median attempt.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2011-12STL7213+10101633.311:41
2012-13STL457613-440015014.012:28
2013-14STL80253156+282753118813.317:32
2014-15STL75283563+131680418415.218:15
2015-16STL3381422+881016312.717:12
2016-17STL78193655+141830417910.618:54
2017-18STL62243559+152661315715.319:24
2018-19STL69112536-6162011836.018:08
2019-20STL71223557+31890416213.618:11
2020-21STL4081321+2201017111.317:42
2021-22SEA3781523-13141001017.918:27
2022-23SEA71211940-172260216712.617:25
2023-24SEA62131730-152470011711.116:22
2024-25 so far
Career730196282478+2921350423162812.017:36

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

62 games, 13 goals and 17 assists for 30 points, 7 on the power play, 24 penalty minutes, 16:22 a night and minus-15, with no game-winners. He took 50.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 836 minutes, the 57th percentile, and his ice went 29-30 against an expectation of 31.12-30.51.

Two goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and level at the other end. Seven of his 13 goals came on the power play, the third-most on a unit that finished twenty-seventh in the league.

The Finesse Game

159 attempts at a median of 16 feet with 53 per cent of them from inside twenty, 114 of those on goal, converted at 11.1 per cent against a career 12.04 across 1,628 shots.

196 career goals and 282 assists in 730 games. A sixteen-foot median attempt is the closest chart on this club; he scores from the top of the crease, from rebounds and from below the dots, and 50 career power-play goals is the return on standing there.

The Physical Game

He is 5-10 and 185 and took 24 penalty minutes.

213 career penalty minutes in 730 games. He is not large and does not hit, but he wins pucks on the wall by getting his body between the man and the boards and holding it there, which at his size is a matter of leverage rather than strength.

The Intangibles

Fourteenth overall in 2010 by St. Louis, thirteen seasons, two organisations, and 478 points in 730 games.

A career plus-29 and four shorthanded goals. He has played fewer than 70 games in eight of his thirteen seasons, which is the whole risk with him and always has been.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 836 minutes

Expected goals
50.5%
57th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.1%
73rd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 29 for, 30 against. Expected: 31.1 and 30.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
80th
Numbers
57th

The report ranks him 23 points above where the numbers do. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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.

Usual linemates

2023-24 · 836 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
SEA took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.5% — 0.3 below the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 836 minutes at five-on-five — 42nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Alexander Wennberg52.3%48.4%46.4%
Jamie Oleksiak51.4%49.9%49.4%
Will Borgen51.2%50.1%49.4%

52.3% together, 48.4% for him apart and 46.4% for Wennberg 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

159 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.