Jared McCann

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

74 games, 27 goals and 23 assists at 16:08 a night, minus-26, thirty-three penalty minutes, 199 shots. Eight of the twenty-seven came on the power play. Twenty-fourth overall in 2014 by Vancouver, seven seasons, 427 games, 205 points. Twenty-seven goals is a career high by eight.

The Finesse Game

His shot is 99.5 mph, the 9th-hardest of the 365 forwards the tracking measures, and thirty-eight per cent of his attempts came from the slot — the 9th-lowest of 393 — at a 32-foot median in the 94th percentile.

He shoots very hard from a long way out and it worked. 10.00 shots per 60 is the 88th percentile at 13.6 per cent, and twenty-seven goals came out of it.

Thirty-four per cent of his points came on the power play off 2:36 a night at the 74th percentile — the largest share of any Seattle forward.

2.16 takeaways per 60 is the 83rd percentile among forwards and 1.06 penalties drawn per 60 the 77th, with the net at the 89th.

50.9 per cent of the expected goals and 52.2 per cent of the attempts — the third-best attempt share of any Seattle forward, behind Andre Burakovsky and Morgan Geekie — out of 57.0 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 124th-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts.

And the pair file is the best evidence on the club. Across 498 attempts with Jamie Oleksiak the two took 58.1 per cent of the expected goals against 47.9 for McCann apart. Across 592 with Adam Larsson, 49.1 against 51.9 apart.

His ice went 37-49 against an expectation of 36.60-35.34 — fourteen more goals against than the model asked, behind the 31st-rated crease in the league. That is the minus-26.

The Physical Game

3.27 hits per 60 is the 40th percentile and 1.46 blocks the 38th at 6-1 and 191 pounds. Thirty-three penalty minutes in seventy-four games.

The Intangibles

22.4 mph is the 48th percentile, 5.9 bursts per 60 the 58th, 9.55 miles per 60 the 40th. Three ordinary skating figures under a very hard shot.

He is 26 and had never scored more than nineteen before this. The shot speed, the takeaways and the possession shares are three real things at a genuine top-six workload. A 13.6 per cent conversion from thirty-two feet is the fourth, and it is the one that has to hold for the twenty-seven to hold.