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Jared Spurgeon

5-9 and 166 pounds at 35, a 53 per cent chance share, and 14 penalty minutes.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	933	117	299	416	+125	160	34	0	23	1543	7.6	22:06

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

7 goals and 25 assists in 66 games for 32 points, plus-8, on 20:27 a night — the most points by a defenceman on the club.

54 per cent at five-on-five, the 85th percentile — the best figure on the blue line by six points — with on-ice goals of 41-36 against an expected 41.8-35.5.

The Finesse Game

The reading and the passing are the tools and they are very good. He sees the outlet before the forecheck arrives, he does not stall a breakout, and 25 assists in 66 games at 35 is a genuine first-pair rate.

107 shots and 7 goals; the release is ordinary and the offence comes from distribution rather than from shooting.

The Physical Game

5-9 and 166 — the lightest defenceman in the league — and he defends entirely by position and anticipation. He cannot clear a crease and he is very rarely in a battle he did not choose.

14 penalty minutes over 66 games is exceptional and it is the whole method: never late, never reaching. The body has cost him — he has cleared 70 games twice in five seasons.

The Intangibles

A sixth-round pick of the Islanders in 2008 who never signed there, sixteen seasons in one organisation, and a captaincy that has outlasted three rebuilds.

At 36 the projection is 60 games and 20 minutes. He is the best defenceman on this roster by chance share and the club has been planning for his absence for three years without finding a replacement.

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.

drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
54.0% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 47.2% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.8, 95th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“The reading and the passing are the tools and they are very good. He sees the outlet before the forecheck arrives, he does not stall a breakout, and 25 assists in 66 games at 35 is a genuine first-pair rate.”
defends-with-reacha strength· takes the puck before the contact happens
“he defends entirely by position and anticipation”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He cannot clear a crease and he is very rarely in a battle he did not choose.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“sixteen seasons in one organisation, and a captaincy that has outlasted three rebuilds”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,117 minutes

Expected goals: 54%; 85th pct
Shot attempts: 51.4%; 68th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 41 for, 36 against. Expected: 41.8 and 35.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

60th

Numbers

85th

The numbers rank him 25 points above where the report does. 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 — 74 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 · 66 games

Top speed: 21.6 mph; 50th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.65 a game
Distance: 2.97 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.1 mph; 35th 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 · 1117 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: MIN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.0% — 4.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,117 minutes at five-on-five — 77th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Declan Chisholm	54.3%	53.7%	51.3%
Marco Rossi	54.6%	53.7%	52.2%
Matt Boldy	63.2%	49.2%	49.7%

54.3% together, 53.7% for him apart and 51.3% for Chisholm apart. Chisholm was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Chisholm than for him.

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

153 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 31 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 68% from beyond forty.