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Jamie Drysdale

Philadelphia Flyers Defense

Minus-20 in 34 games, on ice that went 10-30.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21ANA24358-1260002810.719:35
2021-22ANA8142832-26160011372.919:53
2022-23ANA8000-3200080.017:37
2023-24ANA/PHI343710-208100555.519:37
2024-25 so far
Career147104050-61321012284.419:39

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

34 games for Anaheim and Philadelphia, 3 goals and 7 assists for 10 points, 1 on the power play, 8 penalty minutes, 19:37 a night and minus-20. He took 46.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 548 minutes, the 30th percentile, and his ice went 10-30 against an expectation of 20.02-22.90.

Ten goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and seven more conceded than they called for. Ten goals for and thirty against in 548 minutes of five-on-five hockey, and a minus-20 in 34 games, is very hard to do.

The Finesse Game

82 attempts at a median of 56 feet with 82 per cent of them from beyond forty and 1 per cent from inside twenty, 55 of those on goal, converted at 5.5 per cent against a career 4.39 across 228 shots.

40 career assists in 147 games, 28 of them in one season at 19. The skating is the whole asset and it is a genuine one — he pivots and accelerates out of his own end better than anybody on this blue line, and the puck moves up the ice on his stick rather than off the glass.

The Physical Game

He is 5-11 and 185 and took 8 penalty minutes.

32 career penalty minutes in 147 games. He is small and light and defends entirely with feet and stick; below the goal line and in front of his own net he is a passenger, and a career minus-61 in 147 games is partly that and partly the clubs.

The Intangibles

Sixth overall in 2020 by Anaheim, four seasons, two organisations, 50 points in 147 games and a career minus-61.

Eighty-one games at 19 and 42 in the two seasons after it. He is 22, and the skating alone is worth the wait if the games ever arrive.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 548 minutes

Expected goals
46.6%
30th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48.6%
42nd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 10 for, 30 against. Expected: 20.0 and 22.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
22nd
Numbers
30th

The two rank him within 8 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 437 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 60 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 · 370 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
PHI took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.6% — 6.0 below the club he did it on.
The role
548 minutes at five-on-five — 21st percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Travis Konecny41.8%48.5%55.3%
Nick Seeler52.0%45.4%53.3%
Cam Fowler49.1%46.0%44.2%

41.8% together, 48.5% for him apart and 55.3% for Konecny apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

82 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 34 feet. 1% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 82% from beyond forty.