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Jeff Petry
Detroit Red Wings Defense
Nine hundred and thirty-seven games, 282 assists, and a career minus-126 — the third-worst figure of any defenceman in this edition.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 937 | 95 | 282 | 377 | -126 | 388 | 24 | 2 | 16 | 1667 | 5.7 | 21:58 |
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
Seventy-three games at 36, 3 goals and 21 assists, 18:48 a night and minus-7. He took 47.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,214 minutes, the 37th percentile, and his ice went 54-62 against an expectation of 46.91-51.00.
That is the second-best chance share among the defencemen who actually played here, and 24 points at eighteen minutes a night at 36 is reasonable value for a man in his fourteenth season.
The Finesse Game
He walks the line and moves it, and 282 career assists in 937 games is a genuine puck-moving record. Twenty-one assists last season at 36 came almost entirely at even strength.
Eighty-four shots at a median of 54 feet with 70 per cent from beyond 40 and 3 went in — a 3.57 per cent conversion against a career 5.70. The point shot was once worth 24 career power-play goals and it has stopped being a weapon.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 208 and defends by closing early rather than by finishing checks. Thirty-nine penalty minutes in 73 games is a moderate rate.
He does not win the wall against heavy forwards at 36 and he does not clear a crease. On a pair with Ben Chiarot that is a workable arrangement.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2006 out of Ann Arbor, fourteen seasons across Edmonton, Montreal, Pittsburgh and now Detroit, and 937 games at 21:58 a night.
The career minus-126 is the third-worst of any defenceman in this edition and it is almost entirely a fact about employers: eight seasons in Edmonton and Montreal in the years when neither could keep the puck. He is 36 and playing at home.
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.
- 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.
“He walks the line and moves it, and 282 career assists in 937 games is a genuine puck-moving record.”
“He does not win the wall against heavy forwards at 36 and he does not clear a crease.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,214 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 38th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.5%
- 15th 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: 54 for, 62 against. Expected: 46.9 and 51.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 59 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, 2023-24 · 73 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 65th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.88 a game
- Distance
- 2.62 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 101.3 mph
- 97th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 · 1214 minutes at five-on-five
- Ben Chiarot60%
- Simon Edvinsson17%
- Olli Maatta12%
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
- DET took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 2.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,214 minutes at five-on-five — 84th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Chiarot | 44.7% | 52.5% | 44.5% |
| Alex DeBrincat | 50.8% | 46.6% | 48.6% |
| Lucas Raymond | 52.4% | 46.0% | 46.3% |
44.7% together, 52.5% for him apart and 44.5% for Chiarot apart. He was better away from Chiarot, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Chiarot.
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
123 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 51 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 70% from beyond forty.