Jaycob Megna
Florida Panthers Defense
Six foot six, a seventh-round pick, and the seventh percentile of chances in Chicago.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | ANA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 15:20 |
| 2017-18 | ANA | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 15:43 |
| 2018-19 | ANA | 28 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 3.2 | 14:32 |
| 2021-22 | SJS | 44 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 5.0 | 19:07 |
| 2022-23 | SJS/SEA | 54 | 1 | 11 | 12 | +3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 1.8 | 18:52 |
| 2023-24 | CHI | 44 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -15 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0.0 | 17:31 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 185 | 4 | 23 | 27 | -17 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162 | 2.5 | 17:41 |
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
44 games in Chicago, no goals and 2 assists, 22 penalty minutes, 17:31 a night and minus-15. He took 41.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 694 minutes, the 7th percentile, and his ice went 19-34 against an expectation of 22.68-32.24, all of it with the Blackhawks.
Four goals of scoring that did not arrive and two more conceded than the chances called for, on the second-worst chance share of anybody who will dress for Florida. Seventeen minutes a night on the 31st-place club is a description of the club.
The Finesse Game
28 shots at a median of 59 feet with 92 per cent from beyond 40 and not one goal. Four goals in 185 career games.
23 career assists in 185 games. He gets the puck to the nearest available option and nothing else. The 59-foot median is the longest average shot of any defenceman in this edition, and it is a man throwing pucks at the net because there is no other play.
The Physical Game
He is 6-6 and 214 and defends with his reach.
22 penalty minutes in 44 games is an ordinary rate and 73 in 185 career games is low. He blocks shots and clears the crease and does not hit anybody hard.
The Intangibles
A seventh-round pick in 2012 out of Plantation, Florida, six seasons, and 27 points in 185 games. He was born twenty miles from the arena.
He is 31 and has never held a full-time job in the league. This is a seventh defenceman signed to play when somebody is hurt, and the chance share says the club should try not to need him.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 694 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.3%
- 7th pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.1%
- 4th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 19 for, 34 against. Expected: 22.7 and 32.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 52 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
2023-24 with CHI · 694 minutes at five-on-five
- Alex Vlasic16%
- Jarred Tinordioff the roster15%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- CHI took 41.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.3% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 694 minutes at five-on-five — 31st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Korchinski | 38.5% | 45.1% | 41.5% |
| Philipp Kurashev | 38.3% | 43.1% | 41.8% |
| Nick Foligno | 44.5% | 40.2% | 42.9% |
38.5% together, 45.1% for him apart and 41.5% for Korchinski apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
38 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 0 of them goals. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 92% from beyond forty.