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Jamie Benn

49 points at 35 in a third-line role, 70 penalty minutes, and a 48.6 per cent chance share that is the lowest of any regular forward here.

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	DAL	80	16	33	49	+3	70	1	0	4	136	11.8	15:18
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1192	399	557	956	+81	879	109	16	62	3041	13.1	17:42

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

16 goals and 33 assists in 80 games for 49 points, plus-3, on 15:18 a night — the least ice time of his career by three minutes.

48.6 per cent at five-on-five, the 39th percentile, which is the lowest figure among the club’s regular forwards. 49 points on that share is a man being carried by his linemates rather than the reverse.

The Finesse Game

The hands are still good in tight and the passing has held up better than anything else — 33 assists at 35 in fifteen minutes a night is real. He plays a slow, heavy possession game below the goal line where his lack of pace does not cost him.

49 per cent of his shots come from inside 20 feet, so he is still going to the right places. The finishing has thinned out: 16 goals on 136 shots, and the release that used to beat goaltenders from distance does not any more.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 210, and the physical game is the last thing that will leave him. He still wins pucks on the wall, still goes to the net front, and still finishes checks at an age where most captains have stopped.

70 penalty minutes is the second-highest total on the club and the mark of a man who has not adjusted his temperature to his ice time. Some of that is useful. Some of it is a 35-year-old taking a penalty his team then has to kill.

The Intangibles

Sixteen seasons, one organisation, and a captaincy through every version of this club. He has taken a reduced role without any of the noise that usually attends one, which is not a small thing.

The projection is straightforward and getting shorter. This is a useful third-line winger who can still play a hard playoff game, on a contract the club has structured around exactly that. The chance share says he should not be given more.

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
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“the passing has held up better than anything else — 33 assists at 35 in fifteen minutes a night is real”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“He still wins pucks on the wall, still goes to the net front, and still finishes checks at an age where most captains have stopped.”
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“still goes to the net front”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“still finishes checks at an age where most captains have stopped”
nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“70 penalty minutes is the second-highest total on the club and the mark of a man who has not adjusted his temperature to his ice time.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“Sixteen seasons, one organisation, and a captaincy through every version of this club. He has taken a reduced role without any of the noise that usually attends one, which is not a small thing.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 911 minutes

Expected goals: 48.6%; 40th pct
Shot attempts: 46.5%; 21st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 48 for, 37 against. Expected: 42.0 and 44.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

72nd

Numbers

40th

The report ranks him 32 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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, 2024-25 · 80 games

Top speed: 21.9 mph; 34th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.47 a game
Distance: 2.46 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.8 mph; 38th 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

2024-25 · 911 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, 2024-25

The club: DAL took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 2.1 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 911 minutes at five-on-five — 47th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Wyatt Johnston	49.1%	47.9%	51.1%
Thomas Harley	50.4%	47.5%	53.7%
Evgenii Dadonov	43.2%	51.7%	54.2%

49.1% together, 47.9% for him apart and 51.1% for Johnston apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

192 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.