Jeff Petry
Florida Panthers Defense
37 years old, 44 games, and a seventh defenceman signed for the depth a long spring requires.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | EDM | 35 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 2.4 | 20:22 |
| 2011-12 | EDM | 73 | 2 | 23 | 25 | -7 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 1.8 | 21:46 |
| 2012-13 | EDM | 48 | 3 | 9 | 12 | +1 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 66 | 4.5 | 21:55 |
| 2013-14 | EDM | 80 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -22 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 7.3 | 21:35 |
| 2014-15 | EDM/MTL | 78 | 7 | 15 | 22 | -28 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 126 | 5.6 | 21:15 |
| 2015-16 | MTL | 51 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -6 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 98 | 5.1 | 21:21 |
| 2016-17 | MTL | 80 | 8 | 20 | 28 | +3 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 172 | 4.7 | 22:07 |
| 2017-18 | MTL | 82 | 12 | 30 | 42 | -30 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 178 | 6.7 | 23:30 |
| 2018-19 | MTL | 82 | 13 | 33 | 46 | -5 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 172 | 7.6 | 23:07 |
| 2019-20 | MTL | 71 | 11 | 29 | 40 | -10 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 158 | 7.0 | 23:39 |
| 2020-21 | MTL | 55 | 12 | 30 | 42 | +6 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 128 | 9.4 | 22:44 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 68 | 6 | 21 | 27 | -11 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 124 | 4.8 | 22:07 |
| 2022-23 | PIT | 61 | 5 | 26 | 31 | +2 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 113 | 4.4 | 22:21 |
| 2023-24 | DET | 73 | 3 | 21 | 24 | -7 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 3.6 | 18:48 |
| 2024-25 | DET | 44 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 3.0 | 18:54 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 981 | 96 | 289 | 385 | -128 | 404 | 24 | 2 | 17 | 1700 | 5.7 | 21:50 |
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
1 goal and 7 assists in 44 games for 8 points, minus-2, on 18:54 a night with Florida.
33 shots in 44 games. A third-pair role on a Cup winner, and the numbers are what that produces at 37.
The Finesse Game
Diminished. He was a genuine offensive defenceman for a decade and 8 points in 44 games is what remains.
The first pass is still competent and the puck decisions are simple now, which is the correct adjustment. There is no power-play case.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 208, and he defends with reach and position. He does not clear a crease decisively and does not hit.
16 penalty minutes over 44 games. The skating has gone and it is why he is a seventh defenceman rather than a sixth.
The Intangibles
Sixteen seasons, five organisations, and a Cup at 37 in a role he accepted without complaint.
The projection is 40 games of depth. A club that plays into June needs eight defencemen and this is a sensible eighth.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 705 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.8%
- 13th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.7%
- 7th 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: 32 for, 32 against. Expected: 26.3 and 32.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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
2024-25 with DET · 705 minutes at five-on-five
- Ben Chiarot56%
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
- DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.8% — 3.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 705 minutes at five-on-five — 28th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Chiarot | 42.4% | 48.1% | 46.0% |
| J.T. Compher | 42.1% | 45.7% | 44.9% |
| Marco Kasper | 43.1% | 45.5% | 55.3% |
42.4% together, 48.1% for him apart and 46.0% for Chiarot 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
57 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.