Jared Spurgeon

5-9, 1,000 games, and still taking the hardest defensive assignment on most nights.

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

2010-11	MIN	53	4	8	12	-1	2	2	0	1	38	10.5	15:04
2011-12	MIN	70	3	20	23	-4	6	2	0	1	92	3.3	21:36
2012-13	MIN	39	5	10	15	+1	4	4	0	2	67	7.5	21:33
2013-14	MIN	67	5	21	26	+15	16	2	0	1	91	5.5	22:38
2014-15	MIN	66	9	16	25	+3	6	3	0	2	128	7.0	22:37
2015-16	MIN	77	11	18	29	+11	14	5	0	2	122	9.0	22:41
2016-17	MIN	76	10	28	38	+33	20	1	0	2	144	6.9	24:02
2017-18	MIN	61	9	28	37	-6	8	3	0	2	110	8.2	24:33
2018-19	MIN	82	14	29	43	-1	20	4	0	0	152	9.2	24:09
2019-20	MIN	62	12	20	32	-1	18	3	0	2	112	10.7	22:34
2020-21	MIN	54	7	18	25	-2	6	3	0	0	94	7.4	22:05
2021-22	MIN	65	10	30	40	+32	10	0	0	2	116	8.6	21:09
2022-23	MIN	79	11	23	34	+32	14	1	0	3	149	7.4	21:49
2023-24	MIN	16	0	5	5	+5	2	0	0	0	21	0.0	23:20
2024-25	MIN	66	7	25	32	+8	14	1	0	3	107	6.5	20:27
2025-26	MIN	79	6	16	22	+2	14	2	0	2	90	6.7	19:36
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1012	123	315	438	+127	174	36	0	25	1633	7.5	21:55

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

6 goals and 22 points in 79 games, plus-2, on 19 and a half minutes a night. He passed 1,000 career games, all but a handful of them for this club.

The Finesse Game

The hockey sense is what has carried a small defenceman through a long career. He is never out of position, he reads a rush a beat before it develops, and he closes gaps at exactly the moment an attacker has committed. Very little of his defending involves contact because very little of it needs to.

He moves the puck cleanly and quickly, does not force plays through the middle, and still activates into the offensive zone when the read is there. The shot is a get-it-through shot rather than a weapon.

The skating remains good. It has to be; it is the mechanism that makes everything else work.

The Physical Game

5-9 and 166 pounds, which is remarkable for a defenceman who has played this long against this competition. He cannot win a battle by strength and does not attempt one — he ties sticks up, boxes out, and gets the puck out. Heavy forwards can establish themselves in front of him.

He has had significant injuries. That is what happens to a player this size over 1,000 games.

The Intangibles

The captain, and a player whose value has always been better understood inside the room than outside it. He has spent the last several seasons shepherding younger defencemen, and lost his most frequent partner to Calgary.

He is 36. The reads will last; the body is the question, as it has been for 5 years now.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
24.2% of his attempts in the slot, 98th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
disciplined· stays out of the box
0.18 penalty minutes a game over 79, 4th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,282 minutes

Expected goals: 51.6%; 68th pct
Shot attempts: 48%; 37th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 37 against. Expected: 52.2 and 49.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

78th

Numbers

68th

The two rank him within 10 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 — 77 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 · 79 games

Top speed: 22.5 mph; 80th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.51 a game
Distance: 2.86 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.3 mph; 61st 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 — 0 goals, 4 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1282 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: MIN took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.6% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,282 minutes at five-on-five — 87th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jacob Middleton	47.8%	54.2%	50.6%
Kirill Kaprizov	55.0%	49.9%	53.0%
Jonas Brodin	54.2%	50.6%	50.3%

47.8% together, 54.2% for him apart and 50.6% for Middleton apart. He was better away from Middleton, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Middleton.

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

124 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 44 feet. 16% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 60% from beyond forty.