Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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19

Jared McCann

Seattle Kraken Left Wing

61 points and a plus-8 on a club that was outscored, with the most perimeter shot profile of any scorer here.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2015-16VAN699918-6321011068.512:31
2016-17FLA29167-14000442.311:38
2017-18FLA6891928+11301041436.313:15
2018-19FLA/PIT78191635-13114215012.714:31
2019-20PIT66142135+6172041509.315:14
2020-21PIT43141832+1787039315.014:07
2021-22SEA74272350-263381119913.616:08
2022-23SEA79403070+181473321019.116:20
2023-24SEA80293362-103192321613.416:46
2024-25SEA82223961+81840320210.917:13
2025-26 so far
Career668184214398+16218401024151312.215:06

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

22 goals and 39 assists in 82 games — 61 points, the most on the club, at 17:13 a night, plus-8, with 4 power-play goals on 202 shots.

47.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 25th percentile. His ice went 45-42 against an expectation of 36.44-40.75 — nine goals better than expected for and two worse against, which is a forward who finished well on a line that was being outplayed.

The Finesse Game

202 attempts at a median of 35 feet with 35 per cent from beyond 40 and only 25 per cent from inside 20 — the most perimeter profile of any scorer on this roster. He converted at 10.9 per cent, which for that shot distribution is a good rate and not a sustainable one.

39 assists is the best number on his file and the reason he plays nineteen minutes. He carries the puck through the neutral zone and finds the late man, and on a club that is 29th in chance share somebody has to.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 191 and he is not in the physical half of the game. He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he is not used against a first line.

18 penalty minutes in 82 games. The discipline is real and it is also a description of how little contact he initiates.

The Intangibles

Twenty-fourth overall in 2014 by Vancouver, traded three times before he was 25, and 668 games and 398 points into a career that only became this in Seattle.

He is 29, he scored 40 goals in 2022-23, and he has been the club’s leading scorer in three of its five seasons.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 979 minutes

Expected goals
47.2%
25th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47%
24th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 45 for, 42 against. Expected: 36.4 and 40.8.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
55th
Numbers
25th

The report ranks him 30 points above where the numbers do. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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

2024-25 · 979 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, 2024-25

The club
SEA took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.2% — level with the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 979 minutes at five-on-five — 57th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Andre Burakovsky49.3%45.3%43.0%
Brandon Montour45.8%48.1%49.1%
Shane Wright46.2%47.8%43.6%

49.3% together, 45.3% for him apart and 43.0% for Burakovsky 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

296 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 25% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 35% from beyond forty.