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Jake Christiansen
Columbus Blue Jackets Defense
Twenty-four games, no goals, and fifteen minutes a night on the league's worst blue line.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25.0 | 9:46 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 24 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0.0 | 15:13 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 32 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 3.5 | 13:51 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
No goals and 4 assists in 24 games, minus-7, 15:13 a night.
45.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 346 minutes, the 24th percentile, with his ice at 12-16 against an expectation of 12.44-14.92. On 346 minutes it says nothing.
Two seasons, 32 games, 5 points.
The Finesse Game
25 shots at a median of 47 feet, 64 per cent from beyond forty.
Beyond forty: 13 shots, none. Inside forty: 10 shots, none. No goals from anywhere, on a sample too small to mean much.
87.3 mph at the 25th percentile. For a defenceman taking two-thirds of his shots from the point that is a below-average tool in the one place it matters.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 199. 21.2 mph at the 6th percentile with 0.5 bursts over twenty a game at the 27th and 2.23 miles a game at the 26th.
That is a slow tracking line and the least forgiving number in this report. An undrafted defenceman without size has to be quick, and on this measurement he is not.
4 penalty minutes in 24 games.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Everett, and signed by Columbus out of junior.
He is 24 with 32 NHL games, on the club with the worst defensive record in the league — which is the most favourable circumstance an eighth defenceman can be handed, and he has 32 games to show for four years of it.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
60% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 93rd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“Undrafted, out of Everett, and signed by Columbus out of junior.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 346 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.5%
- 24th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.5%
- 26th 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: 12 for, 16 against. Expected: 12.4 and 14.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 23 points above where the report does. 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 48 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, 2022-23 · 24 games
- Top speed
- 21.2 mph
- 34th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.54 a game
- Distance
- 2.23 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.3 mph
- 26th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.0
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
2022-23 · 346 minutes at five-on-five
- Andrew Peeke25%
- Marcus Bjorkoff the roster13%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- CBJ took 44.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.5% — 1.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 346 minutes at five-on-five — 8th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Gudbranson | 41.6% | 47.3% | 40.6% |
| Johnny Gaudreau | 52.5% | 42.0% | 47.5% |
| Kent Johnson | 49.1% | 44.0% | 40.7% |
41.6% together, 47.3% for him apart and 40.6% for Gudbranson apart. He was better away from Gudbranson, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Gudbranson.
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
39 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 0 of them goals. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 64% from beyond forty.