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Jakob Chychrun
Washington Capitals Defense
Fourteen goals from the blue line, and seventeen goals of goaltending against him.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | ARI | 68 | 7 | 13 | 20 | -14 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 8.1 | 16:40 |
| 2017-18 | ARI | 50 | 4 | 10 | 14 | +2 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 102 | 3.9 | 20:15 |
| 2018-19 | ARI | 53 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -12 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 4.3 | 20:15 |
| 2019-20 | ARI | 63 | 12 | 14 | 26 | +4 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 149 | 8.1 | 22:26 |
| 2020-21 | ARI | 56 | 18 | 23 | 41 | -6 | 42 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 176 | 10.2 | 23:23 |
| 2021-22 | ARI | 47 | 7 | 14 | 21 | -20 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 141 | 5.0 | 23:00 |
| 2022-23 | ARI/OTT | 48 | 9 | 24 | 33 | +7 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 144 | 6.3 | 22:42 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 82 | 14 | 27 | 41 | -30 | 60 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 204 | 6.9 | 22:23 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 467 | 76 | 140 | 216 | -69 | 308 | 28 | 0 | 10 | 1119 | 6.8 | 21:18 |
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
82 games with Ottawa, 14 goals and 27 assists for 41 points, 7 on the power play, 60 penalty minutes, 22:23 a night and minus-30, with 2 game-winners. He took 47.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,561 minutes, the 35th percentile, and his ice went 61-85 against an expectation of 62.21-68.44.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and seventeen more conceded than they called for. Seventeen goals of goaltending against him is the largest negative figure of anybody arriving in Washington and none of it is a thing a defenceman controls.
The Finesse Game
319 attempts at a median of 48 feet with 65 per cent of them from beyond forty and 6 per cent from inside twenty, 196 of those on goal, converted at 6.9 per cent against a career 6.79 across 1,119 shots.
Seventy-six career goals and 28 power-play goals in 467 games. Three hundred and nineteen attempts is more than any defenceman on this club took and the shot from the point is the best on the roster; 14 goals is the tenth-largest total of any defenceman in this edition and he has 76 in 467 career games.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 215 and took 60 penalty minutes.
308 career penalty minutes in 467 games. He is solidly built and defends through contact when he has to, but the game is built on skating out of trouble rather than winning it; sixty penalty minutes at twenty-two minutes a night is the cost of the gap being closed late.
The Intangibles
Sixteenth overall in 2016 by Arizona, eight seasons, and Washington will be his third organisation.
A career minus-69 in 467 games. He was a first-round pick at 18, he has 216 points in eight seasons, and seven of those seasons were spent in Arizona.
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
- 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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:02 a game at five-on-five, 91st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
“Three hundred and nineteen attempts is more than any defenceman on this club took and the shot from the point is the best on the roster; 14 goals is the tenth-largest total of any defenceman in this edition and he has 76 in 467 career games.”
“He is solidly built and defends through contact when he has to, but the game is built on skating out of trouble rather than winning it; sixty penalty minutes at twenty-two minutes a night is the cost of the gap being closed late.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,561 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.6%
- 35th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.9%
- 54th 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: 61 for, 85 against. Expected: 62.2 and 68.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 60 points above where the numbers do. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 81 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
- 22.8 mph
- 90th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.96 a game
- Distance
- 3.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 97.6 mph
- 85th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 with OTT · 1561 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, 2023-24
- The club
- OTT took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,561 minutes at five-on-five — 99th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drake Batherson | 45.9% | 48.5% | 50.6% |
| Tim Stützle | 50.3% | 46.2% | 51.0% |
| Brady Tkachuk | 51.6% | 45.5% | 57.7% |
45.9% together, 48.5% for him apart and 50.6% for Batherson apart. Batherson was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
319 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 65% from beyond forty.