Jakub Lauko
Minnesota Wild Center
Sixty games in Boston on the nineteenth percentile of chances, and ten points to show for it.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | BOS | 23 | 4 | 3 | 7 | +2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 23.5 | 8:52 |
| 2023-24 | BOS | 60 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -3 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 4.7 | 9:49 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 83 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -1 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 10.0 | 9:33 |
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
60 games in Boston, 2 goals and 8 assists for 10 points, 32 penalty minutes, 9:49 a night and minus-3. He took 44.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 575 minutes, the 19th percentile, and his ice went 16-17 against an expectation of 16.54-20.56, all of it with the Bruins.
Level at one end and four fewer conceded than the chances called for at the other. A 19th-percentile chance share is a fourth-line assignment on a club that was 24th in shot share, and there is not much to read in it either way.
The Finesse Game
43 shots in 60 games, converted at 4.7 per cent against a career 10.0.
Eleven career assists in 83 games. Two goals in sixty games is what a nine-minute assignment produces when the hands are ordinary. He skates well and that is the whole of the offensive case.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 193 and forechecks at speed rather than by force.
32 penalty minutes in 60 games at under ten minutes a night is a real rate. He hits, he agitates, and a good deal of it is retaliation for men who have hit him back.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2018 out of Prague, two seasons, and 17 points in 83 games.
He is 24 and Boston moved him in the summer. On a club with no forward depth behind its top six he will get a longer look here than he would have got there.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 575 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.6%
- 19th pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.1%
- 4th 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: 16 for, 17 against. Expected: 16.5 and 20.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 12 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 with BOS · 575 minutes at five-on-five
- John Beecher39%
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
- BOS took 49.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.6% — 5.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 575 minutes at five-on-five — 23rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Beecher | 38.6% | 48.1% | 38.8% |
| Brandon Carlo | 42.5% | 45.5% | 46.6% |
| Morgan Geekie | 44.4% | 44.6% | 51.5% |
38.6% together, 48.1% for him apart and 38.8% for Beecher apart. He was better away from Beecher, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Beecher.
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
67 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 6 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.