Jayson Megna
Boston Bruins Center
Undrafted, 203 games over nine seasons, and the lowest distance covered of any skater in the league.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | PIT | 36 | 5 | 4 | 9 | +1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 13.9 | 10:29 |
| 2014-15 | PIT | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0.0 | 11:02 |
| 2015-16 | NYR | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11.1 | 12:15 |
| 2016-17 | VAN | 58 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 5.6 | 12:26 |
| 2017-18 | VAN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4:18 |
| 2019-20 | COL | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 6:43 |
| 2020-21 | COL | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 | 10:15 |
| 2021-22 | COL | 20 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0.0 | 10:18 |
| 2022-23 | COL/ANA | 55 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 5.6 | 10:01 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 203 | 12 | 21 | 33 | -28 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 201 | 6.0 | 10:47 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
2 goals and 6 assists in 55 games for Anaheim — 8 points at 10:01 a night, minus-21, on 36 shots and 6 penalty minutes.
39 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 500 minutes, the 3rd percentile, starting 35.7 per cent of his shifts in the attacking end — the 1st percentile. His ice went 10-31 against an expectation of 15.51-24.26, which is bad chances converted worse and defended worse still.
The Finesse Game
36 attempts at a median of 23 feet, converting at 5.56 per cent. 12 goals in 203 career NHL games.
There is no offensive game to describe. He has been a productive American League forward for most of a decade and none of it has ever translated.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 190. 1.57 miles a game is the lowest of any skater in the league who played forty games, which on ten minutes a night is a very short, very stationary shift.
The top speed is fine at 22.5 mph, the 61st percentile, so this is not a man who cannot skate — it is a man whose role does not involve skating anywhere. 40 penalty minutes in 203 games.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Nebraska-Omaha, and 203 NHL games across nine seasons on several clubs — an American League career with NHL interruptions rather than the other way around.
He is 33. He is here as organisational depth and the honest expectation is that he plays in Providence, which is not a criticism of a man who has made a living in professional hockey for a decade without ever being wanted.
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
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.11 penalty minutes a game over 55, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
“Undrafted, out of Nebraska-Omaha, and 203 NHL games across nine seasons on several clubs”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 500 minutes
- Expected goals
- 39%
- 3rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 38.2%
- 0th 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: 10 for, 31 against. Expected: 15.5 and 24.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 2 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 58 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 47 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
2022-23 with ANA · 401 minutes at five-on-five
- Sam Carrick34%
- Brett Leason27%
- Maxime Comtoisnow CAR21%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- ANA took 39.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 39.0% — 0.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 500 minutes at five-on-five — 16th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Carrick | 34.7% | 40.7% | 28.8% |
| Kevin Shattenkirk | 41.8% | 38.0% | 42.4% |
| Cam Fowler | 40.4% | 38.5% | 42.2% |
34.7% together, 40.7% for him apart and 28.8% for Carrick apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Carrick behind.
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
53 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.