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Jake Christiansen
Columbus Blue Jackets Defense
A 42.9 per cent chance share — the 8th percentile — across 793 minutes, and 8 points to go with it.
| 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 | CBJ | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 13:13 |
| 2024-25 | CBJ | 68 | 1 | 7 | 8 | +6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 1.7 | 12:32 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 112 | 2 | 13 | 15 | -5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 2.1 | 12:59 |
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 7 assists in 68 games for 8 points, plus-6, on 12:32 a night.
43.1 per cent at five-on-five, the 10th percentile. His on-ice goals were 39-31 against an expected 27-36, which means 12 goals of finishing luck at one end turned a disastrous chance share into a plus-6. The rating is a fiction.
The Finesse Game
Very little. 58 shots in 68 games with 84 per cent of them from beyond 40 feet and 1 per cent from inside 20 — the most perimeter shot chart on the roster — and 1 goal.
The first pass is adequate when he is not pressured. 7 assists in 68 games is a fair description of the offensive contribution.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 199, and neither heavy nor especially willing. He does not clear a net front and loses more board battles than he wins.
11 penalty minutes over 68 games is disciplined, and on a defenceman with an 8th-percentile share that is not a virtue so much as an absence.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, four American League seasons, and 68 NHL games at 26 on a club with a thin blue line.
The honest projection is a seventh defenceman. A team that missed the playoffs by 2 points giving 793 minutes to an 8th-percentile share is part of the explanation for the 2 points.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
- 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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
83.9% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.16 penalty minutes a game over 68, 5th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
“Undrafted, four American League seasons, and 68 NHL games at 26 on a club with a thin blue line.”
“He does not clear a net front and loses more board battles than he wins.”
“He does not clear a net front and loses more board battles than he wins.”
“6 feet and 199, and neither heavy nor especially willing.”
“The first pass is adequate when he is not pressured.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 793 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.1%
- 10th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.9%
- 8th 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: 39 for, 31 against. Expected: 27.1 and 35.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 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 — 58 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 · 68 games
- Top speed
- 21.1 mph
- 25th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.16 a game
- Distance
- 1.84 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.6 mph
- 32nd 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 · 793 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
- CBJ took 48.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.1% — 5.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 793 minutes at five-on-five — 35th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Damon Severson | 48.5% | 37.9% | 50.1% |
| Adam Fantilli | 34.5% | 46.5% | 47.5% |
| Mathieu Olivier | 46.2% | 42.1% | 46.7% |
48.5% together, 37.9% for him apart and 50.1% for Severson apart. He was worse away from Severson, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Severson 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
87 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 64 feet. 1% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 84% from beyond forty.