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Jared McCann

20 goals in 52 games, and the best chance share on the club.

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

2015-16	VAN	69	9	9	18	-6	32	1	0	1	106	8.5	12:31
2016-17	FLA	29	1	6	7	-1	4	0	0	0	44	2.3	11:38
2017-18	FLA	68	9	19	28	+11	30	1	0	4	143	6.3	13:15
2018-19	FLA/PIT	78	19	16	35	-1	31	1	4	2	150	12.7	14:31
2019-20	PIT	66	14	21	35	+6	17	2	0	4	150	9.3	15:14
2020-21	PIT	43	14	18	32	+17	8	7	0	3	93	15.0	14:07
2021-22	SEA	74	27	23	50	-26	33	8	1	1	199	13.6	16:08
2022-23	SEA	79	40	30	70	+18	14	7	3	3	210	19.1	16:20
2023-24	SEA	80	29	33	62	-10	31	9	2	3	216	13.4	16:46
2024-25	SEA	82	22	39	61	+8	18	4	0	3	202	10.9	17:13
2025-26	SEA	52	20	20	40	-7	11	7	0	2	117	17.1	16:26
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	720	204	234	438	+9	229	47	10	26	1630	12.5	15:12

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

20 goals and 20 assists in 52 games — 40 points, minus-7, at 16:26 a night with 7 power-play goals. 30 games missed.

The Finesse Game

A shooter who has quietly put together a good career. 172 unblocked attempts, 18 goals, median 33 feet with only 25 per cent from inside 20 and 26 per cent from beyond 40.

That is a long way out for a 20-goal pace, and it works because the release is quick and deceptive. It is also the least dependable way to make a living.

438 points in 720 career games.

The Physical Game

6-1, 191, and he does not seek contact. 11 penalty minutes in 52 games is one of the lowest rates in this edition.

He gets to his shooting ice by timing and by finding the soft spot, not by winning it.

The Intangibles

51.9 per cent of the expected goals, 70th percentile — the best mark on the club by a clear margin — and 49.1 per cent of the shot attempts, 47th, across 662 minutes, with the chances 29.3 to 27.1 in his favour.

On a roster where the 5 busiest skaters sit between the eleventh and 38th percentiles, that is a striking outlier, and 30 games missed is the reason it is not talked about.

5 points in his last 10, 3 of them goals. He is 30, and the honest read is that Seattle is a better team when he plays and has not had him for a full season in 3 years.

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

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.

drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
51.9% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 44.8% for his club in the minutes he sat: +7.1, 97th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 662 minutes

Expected goals: 51.9%; 70th pct
Shot attempts: 49.1%; 48th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 29 for, 30 against. Expected: 29.3 and 27.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

67th

Numbers

70th

The two rank him within 3 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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, 2025-26 · 52 games

Top speed: 21.5 mph; 20th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.62 a game
Distance: 2.51 miles a game
Hardest shot: 94.4 mph; 96th 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 2 assists, 19 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 662 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, 2025-26

The club: SEA took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.9% — 5.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 662 minutes at five-on-five — 27th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Matty Beniers	52.1%	51.6%	44.3%
Jordan Eberle	54.6%	48.7%	45.0%
Adam Larsson	51.1%	52.4%	43.1%

52.1% together, 51.6% for him apart and 44.3% for Beniers apart. Beniers was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Beniers 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

172 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 25% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 26% from beyond forty.