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Jake Neighbours
St. Louis Blues Left Wing #63
57 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and the 77th percentile.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | STL | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 12.5 | 9:19 |
| 2022-23 | STL | 43 | 6 | 4 | 10 | -19 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 53 | 11.3 | 12:26 |
| 2023-24 | STL | 77 | 27 | 11 | 38 | -16 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 145 | 18.6 | 15:42 |
| 2024-25 | STL | 82 | 22 | 24 | 46 | 0 | 56 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 122 | 18.0 | 15:54 |
| 2025-26 | STL | 69 | 15 | 21 | 36 | -7 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 86 | 17.4 | 15:14 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 280 | 71 | 61 | 132 | -44 | 146 | 16 | 0 | 11 | 414 | 17.2 | 14:56 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 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
15 goals and 21 assists in 69 games — 36 points, minus-7, at 15:14 a night with 43 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
The shot chart is one of the best on the club. 57 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet with a median of 17, and only 13 per cent from beyond 40.
15 goals from 129 tries is a strong conversion, and 71 goals in 280 career games says it holds up.
21 assists is honest work from a winger whose value is at the net rather than away from it.
The Physical Game
6 foot even, 201, and genuinely hard — he forechecks, finishes checks, and takes the punishment that comes with standing 17 feet from a goaltender. 43 penalty minutes.
The skating is ordinary and it is the ceiling on the role.
The Intangibles
52.8 per cent of the expected goals, 76th percentile, and 49.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 49th, across 887 minutes, with the chances 37.0 to 33.1 in his favour and the goals 43-42.
That is a top-5 chance share on the club, level with Holloway.
10 points in his last 10. He is 24, a 26th overall pick, and precisely the sort of winger a top 6 of Thomas, Buchnevich and Holloway needs to be dirty on its behalf.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 887 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.8%
- 76th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.2%
- 50th 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: 43 for, 42 against. Expected: 37.0 and 33.1.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 6 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 78 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, 2025-26 · 69 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 45th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.77 a game
- Distance
- 2.33 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.5 mph
- 33rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
10
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 9 assists, 17 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 887 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, 2025-26
- The club
- STL took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.8% — 2.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 887 minutes at five-on-five — 46th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pavel Buchnevich | 56.1% | 50.3% | 49.1% |
| Jordan Kyrou | 62.2% | 46.2% | 57.2% |
| Colton Parayko | 54.4% | 51.7% | 50.4% |
56.1% together, 50.3% for him apart and 49.1% for Buchnevich 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
129 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 57% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.