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Jani Hakanpää
Dallas Stars Defense
Six foot seven, and 11.48 hits per 60 is the 7th-most of the 202 qualified defencemen.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | ANA | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25.0 | 18:07 |
| 2020-21 | ANA/CAR | 57 | 2 | 2 | 4 | +4 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 54 | 3.7 | 18:01 |
| 2021-22 | DAL | 80 | 4 | 8 | 12 | +1 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 5.9 | 16:13 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 142 | 7 | 10 | 17 | +6 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 126 | 5.6 | 17:00 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
4 goals and 8 assists in 80 games at 16:13 a night, the 15th percentile among defencemen, with a plus-1 and 43 penalty minutes. 2:16 short-handed is the 72nd percentile.
47.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,096 minutes, the 30th percentile, and 45.9 per cent of the attempts, the 16th.
Seven playoff games at 18 minutes a night for two assists.
The Finesse Game
3.15 shots per 60 is the 14th percentile among defencemen and 0.59 even-strength points per 60 is the 12th. The median shot travels 52 feet and 7 per cent come from the slot. Four assists at even strength in eighty games.
0:02 a night on the power play. He has never scored a power-play goal in 142 NHL games.
0.42 takeaways per 60 is the 4th percentile — the lowest figure on this blue line and close to the lowest in the league. He does not take pucks off people; he takes people off pucks.
The Physical Game
Six foot seven and 225 pounds, one of five men that tall in this book and the lightest of them.
11.48 hits per 60 is the 7th-most of the 202 qualified defencemen, and 5.18 blocks is the 78th percentile. At sixteen minutes a night, in the bottom fifth of the league for ice time, he finished top ten in the league for contact. This is the entire job and he does it at a rate almost nobody matches.
21.7 mph is the 38th percentile and 8.18 miles per 60 is the 40th of 192 from the bottom. He is not fast and he does not cover much ground, which at 6-7 is the expected shape and is also the reason the minutes stop at sixteen.
96.2 mph is the 68th percentile — the shot is genuinely hard and he takes 68 of them a season.
0.74 penalties taken per 60 is the 60th percentile. Forty-three minutes in eighty games is not an indiscipline problem; it is the arithmetic of a man that size finishing every check.
The Intangibles
One hundred and fourth overall in 2010, and he did not play an NHL game until he was 27. One hundred and forty-two career games at 30, five of them in his first season.
With Radek Faksa he takes 50.1 per cent of the chances over 564 attempts, which is the best number either man posted with anyone. With Joel Hanley he is at 57.7 over 333 — a small sample and the only pairing in Dallas that looks like a good one on its own merits rather than on which forwards were out.
The reach is the argument and nothing here measures it. A stick that long changes what a forward can do on the wall, and the repo records hits and blocks, which are the events that happen when the reach has already failed.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
85.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
39% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 5th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“This is the entire job and he does it at a rate almost nobody matches.”
“A stick that long changes what a forward can do on the wall, and the repo records hits and blocks, which are the events that happen when the reach has already failed.”
“He does not take pucks off people; he takes people off pucks.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,096 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.3%
- 34th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.9%
- 21st 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: 39 for, 42 against. Expected: 37.7 and 42.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 53 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, 2021-22 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 57th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.53 a game
- Distance
- 2.21 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 96.2 mph
- 79th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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
2021-22 · 1096 minutes at five-on-five
- Esa Lindell26%
- Ryan Suter19%
- Joel Hanley19%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- DAL took 51.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.3% — 3.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,096 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radek Faksa | 50.1% | 46.1% | 41.9% |
| Luke Glendening | 46.5% | 47.6% | 45.2% |
| Michael Raffl | 51.2% | 46.0% | 48.8% |
50.1% together, 46.1% for him apart and 41.9% for Faksa apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
91 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 46 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 86% from beyond forty.