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Jake Evans
Montreal Canadiens Center
Two hundred and seventh overall in 2014, and 65 assists in 268 games from a checking centre.
| 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 | MTL | 54 | 2 | 17 | 19 | -5 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 3.6 | 14:29 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 82 | 7 | 21 | 28 | -1 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 81 | 8.6 | 16:01 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 268 | 27 | 65 | 92 | -8 | 103 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 329 | 8.2 | 14:35 |
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
All 82 games, 7 goals and 21 assists for 28 points, 1 shorthanded, 24 penalty minutes, 16:01 a night and minus-1. He took 45.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,026 minutes, the 22nd percentile, and his ice went 34-41 against an expectation of 37.67-45.92.
Four goals of scoring that did not arrive and five fewer conceded than the chances called for. A minus-1 out of the 22nd percentile of chances on a club that finished 28th is a good season in disguise.
The Finesse Game
120 attempts at a median of 23 feet with 47 per cent from inside 20, converted at 8.6 per cent against a career 8.21.
65 career assists in 268 games. He is a passer on a checking line, which is an unusual and useful combination — twenty-one assists from that assignment is more than it looks. The shot has never been there and never will be.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 190 and defends by taking away the pass rather than the man.
24 penalty minutes in 82 games at sixteen a night is a low rate. He takes the defensive-zone draw, blocks shots, and kills penalties with 2 career shorthanded goals.
The Intangibles
A seventh-round pick in 2014 out of Toronto, four years at Notre Dame, five seasons, and 92 points in 268 games, all of it for one organisation.
He is 28 and has become exactly the player a 207th-overall pick is supposed to fail to become. On a club with the fifth-most shorthanded time in hockey he is the most useful checking forward available.
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
34% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 4th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He is 6-0 and 190 and defends by taking away the pass rather than the man.”
“He takes the defensive-zone draw, blocks shots, and kills penalties with 2 career shorthanded goals.”
“He takes the defensive-zone draw, blocks shots, and kills penalties with 2 career shorthanded goals.”
“He takes the defensive-zone draw, blocks shots, and kills penalties with 2 career shorthanded goals.”
“He is a passer on a checking line, which is an unusual and useful combination — twenty-one assists from that assignment is more than it looks.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,026 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.1%
- 22nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.9%
- 12th 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: 34 for, 41 against. Expected: 37.7 and 45.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 652 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, 2023-24 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 51st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.37 a game
- Distance
- 2.54 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.6 mph
- 30th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 1026 minutes at five-on-five
- Jesse Ylonenoff the roster20%
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
- MTL took 46.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.1% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,026 minutes at five-on-five — 61st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Anderson | 46.3% | 43.6% | 39.6% |
| Brendan Gallagher | 53.1% | 40.5% | 48.7% |
| David Savard | 38.6% | 48.6% | 48.2% |
46.3% together, 43.6% for him apart and 39.6% for Anderson apart. Anderson was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Anderson than for him.
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
120 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.