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Jake Evans
Montreal Canadiens Center
A seventh-round pick killing 1:56 a night, with no power-play points and the only Montreal ice that was not outscored.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | MTL | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14.3 | 10:21 |
| 2020-21 | MTL | 47 | 3 | 10 | 13 | +2 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 55 | 5.5 | 11:50 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 72 | 13 | 16 | 29 | -5 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 10.5 | 15:36 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 132 | 18 | 27 | 45 | -2 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 193 | 9.3 | 13:45 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
13 goals and 16 assists in seventy-two games at 15:36 a night, minus-5, twenty-two penalty minutes. Two hundred and seventh overall in 2014 is close enough to undrafted, and he has made himself a 132-game NHL centre out of it.
The Finesse Game
Not one of his twenty-nine points came on the power play — he played nineteen seconds a night there. 1.75 even-strength points per 60 is the 46th percentile, all of it at even strength and on the kill.
6.63 shots per 60 is the 36th percentile at 10.5 per cent, 52 per cent from the slot at a 24-foot median. Modest and sensible.
2.08 takeaways per 60 is the 79th percentile.
48.1 per cent of the expected goals is the 35th percentile — which on this roster is second only to Brendan Gallagher among forwards. His ice went 39-38 against an expectation of 38.03-41.09: the only Montreal regular whose shifts were not outscored, on a club that conceded 319 goals.
Beside David Savard across 521 attempts he took 53.0 per cent of the chances; Savard away from him read 42.5. That is the largest positive effect any Montreal forward had on a defenceman, and it is a ten-point swing.
The Physical Game
4.70 hits per 60 is the 59th percentile and 1.98 blocks the 64th at 6-0 and 190.
He killed 1:56 a night, the 91st percentile among forwards, on the worst penalty kill in the league bar one. A club that finished 31st on the kill was leaning on him for it, and his even-strength record is the reason.
The Intangibles
21.8 mph is the 17th percentile and 8.4 bursts over 20 mph per 60 is the 80th, at 9.85 miles per 60, the 68th. He is slow and he sprints often, which is an unusual combination and reads like a man chasing rather than leading.
He is 26. On a last-place club he was the one forward whose ice broke even and the one the coach trusted short-handed, off a seventh-round pick. That is a fourth-line centre a good team would want and a bad team overuses, and this record cannot say which he is until he plays for a different one.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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 killed 1:56 a night, the 91st percentile among forwards, on the worst penalty kill in the league bar one.”
“Two hundred and seventh overall in 2014 is close enough to undrafted, and he has made himself a 132-game NHL centre out of it.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 941 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.1%
- 39th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.6%
- 42nd 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, 38 against. Expected: 38.0 and 41.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 649 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, 2021-22 · 72 games
- Top speed
- 21.8 mph
- 37th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.18 a game
- Distance
- 2.56 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.6 mph
- 63rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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
2021-22 · 941 minutes at five-on-five
- Rem Pitlick31%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- MTL took 46.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.1% — 1.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 941 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Romanov | 47.1% | 48.6% | 46.2% |
| Ben Chiarot | 46.7% | 48.7% | 49.3% |
| Rem Pitlick | 46.7% | 48.8% | 40.8% |
47.1% together, 48.6% for him apart and 46.2% for Romanov 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
149 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 41% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.