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Jamie Benn

Sixty points and 809 penalty minutes at thirty-five, from a fifth-round pick who won an Art Ross.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2009-10	DAL	82	22	19	41	-1	45	2	0	3	182	12.1	14:42
2010-11	DAL	69	22	34	56	-5	52	6	4	3	177	12.4	18:01
2011-12	DAL	71	26	37	63	+15	55	2	1	7	203	12.8	18:04
2012-13	DAL	41	12	21	33	-12	40	3	0	3	110	10.9	19:55
2013-14	DAL	81	34	45	79	+21	64	5	1	3	279	12.2	19:09
2014-15	DAL	82	35	52	87	+1	64	10	2	6	253	13.8	19:57
2015-16	DAL	82	41	48	89	+7	64	17	2	5	247	16.6	20:01
2016-17	DAL	77	26	43	69	-9	66	12	1	4	201	12.9	19:22
2017-18	DAL	82	36	43	79	+20	54	9	1	7	241	14.9	19:49
2018-19	DAL	78	27	26	53	+14	56	8	0	2	189	14.3	18:14
2019-20	DAL	69	19	20	39	-4	53	8	0	4	163	11.7	16:26
2020-21	DAL	52	11	24	35	+13	33	3	0	2	124	8.9	17:47
2021-22	DAL	82	18	28	46	-13	88	3	1	2	182	9.9	16:45
2022-23	DAL	82	33	45	78	+23	34	13	2	4	190	17.4	15:47
2023-24	DAL	82	21	39	60	+8	41	7	1	3	164	12.8	15:07
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1112	383	524	907	+78	809	108	16	58	2905	13.2	17:53

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 at 34, 21 goals and 39 assists for 60 points, 7 on the power play and 1 shorthanded, 15:07 a night and plus-8. He converted 12.80 per cent of 164 shots against a career 13.18 across 2,905.

He took 55.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 930 minutes, the 90th percentile, and his ice went 40-36 against an expectation of 45.97-36.72. Sixty points at fifteen minutes a night in a fifteenth season is a remarkable piece of ageing.

The Finesse Game

He shoots from a median of 20 feet with 50 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 — the shortest median distance of any regular forward on the roster except Wyatt Johnston. At 35 he still goes to the front of the net and takes what a 35-year-old takes.

Five hundred and twenty-four career assists in 1,112 games. The passing has outlasted everything else: he holds the puck below the goal line, waits, and finds the seam, and 39 assists last season is the same number he had at 30.

The skating went first and it went years ago. Everything he does now happens within twenty feet of a net for that reason.

The Physical Game

Eight hundred and nine penalty minutes in 1,112 games is the record of a captain who has fought for his club for fifteen seasons and has never once been talked out of it.

He is 6-3 and 210 and he is still hard to move from the front of the net. Forty-one penalty minutes in 82 games at 35 is not a decline, and a fair share of it is taken on somebody else’s behalf.

The Intangibles

A fifth-round pick, 129th overall in 2007 out of Victoria, who won an Art Ross in 2015 and has been the captain of this club for eleven seasons. Nine hundred and seven points in 1,112 games.

The club he captains has nine men between 47 and 80 points and he is one of them, at 35, on the third line. That is how a captaincy ends properly.

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
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He shoots from a median of 20 feet with 50 per cent of his attempts from inside 20 — the shortest median distance of any regular forward on the roster except Wyatt Johnston.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“A fifth-round pick, 129th overall in 2007 out of Victoria, who won an Art Ross in 2015 and has been the captain of this club for eleven seasons.”
takes-libertiesa strength· crosses the line and knows where it is
“Forty-one penalty minutes in 82 games at 35 is not a decline, and a fair share of it is taken on somebody else's behalf.”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He is 6-3 and 210 and he is still hard to move from the front of the net.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 930 minutes

Expected goals: 55.6%; 90th pct
Shot attempts: 52.3%; 74th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 36 against. Expected: 46.0 and 36.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

57th

Numbers

90th

The numbers rank him 33 points above where the report does. 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 — 71 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: 21.4 mph; 18th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.39 a game
Distance: 2.46 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.1 mph; 45th pct

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 · 930 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: DAL took 54.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.6% — 1.0 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 930 minutes at five-on-five — 50th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Wyatt Johnston	56.2%	53.7%	60.1%
Thomas Harley	55.9%	55.4%	54.6%
Evgenii Dadonov	52.4%	57.2%	52.2%

56.2% together, 53.7% for him apart and 60.1% for Johnston apart. Johnston 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

218 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.