Jared McCann

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

80 games, 29 goals and 33 assists for 62 points, 9 on the power play, 2 shorthanded, 31 penalty minutes, 16:46 a night and minus-10, with 3 game-winners. He took 50.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 984 minutes, the 59th percentile, and his ice went 43-41 against an expectation of 39.22-37.93.

Four goals of finishing above what the chances were worth — the only positive figure of the fifteen men who played the season in Seattle — and three more conceded than they called for. Twenty-nine goals after 40 the season before, on a club that scored 217.

The Finesse Game

308 attempts at a median of 32 feet with 21 per cent of them from inside twenty, 207 of those on goal, converted at 13.4 per cent against a career 12.36 across 1,311 shots.

162 career goals in 586 games. He shoots from further out than a thirty-goal scorer normally has to, which means the release is doing the work rather than the position — a hard, flat shot off the pass that goes before a goaltender has squared up. Nine power-play goals out of 36 in his career came last season.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 191 and took 31 penalty minutes.

200 career penalty minutes in 586 games. There is not much contact in his game in either direction; he finds space rather than making it, and at thirty-two feet from the net he is rarely in a position to be hit.

The Intangibles

Twenty-fourth overall in 2014 by Vancouver, nine seasons, four organisations, and 337 points in 586 games.

Ten career shorthanded goals and a career plus-8 across four clubs. He was a first-round pick who had played for three organisations before he was 23, and he has scored 96 goals in three seasons in Seattle.