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Jared McCann

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

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	668	184	214	398	+16	218	40	10	24	1513	12.2	15:06

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.

48.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 25th percentile. His ice went 51-36 against an expectation of 37.39-40.01 — 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.

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
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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
35.5% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 98th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“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.”
forechecks-aggressivelyhe lacks it· first man in, and on the puck
“He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he is not used against a first line.”
wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he is not used against a first line.”
fouls-when-beatena strength· the stick foul that follows losing a step
“**18 penalty minutes in 82 games.** The discipline is real and it is also a description of how little contact he initiates.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 979 minutes

Expected goals: 48.3%; 37th pct
Shot attempts: 47.4%; 28th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 51 for, 36 against. Expected: 37.4 and 40.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

55th

Numbers

37th

The two rank him within 18 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 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.3 mph; 53rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.34 a game
Distance: 2.67 miles a game
Hardest shot: 99.6 mph; 100th 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.

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 48.3% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 979 minutes at five-on-five — 57th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Andre Burakovsky	51.4%	45.6%	40.8%
Brandon Montour	45.9%	49.8%	48.9%
Shane Wright	48.7%	48.1%	44.6%

51.4% together, 45.6% for him apart and 40.8% 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.