Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →

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Jeremy Lauzon

Nashville Predators Defense

Ninety-eight penalty minutes in 79 games, on a club that spent the ninth-most time shorthanded in hockey.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2018-19BOS16101-12001119.115:32
2019-20BOS19112+529000205.015:25
2020-21BOS41178+840000482.118:43
2021-22SEA/NSH66257-681000752.717:41
2022-23NSH673912-1166000773.916:51
2023-24NSH796814-3980001035.818:37
2024-25 so far
Career288143044-83160013344.217:37

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

79 games, 6 goals and 8 assists for 14 points, 98 penalty minutes, 18:37 a night and minus-3. He took 50.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,251 minutes, the 53rd percentile, and his ice went 44-56 against an expectation of 50.17-49.98.

Six goals of scoring that did not arrive and six more conceded than the chances called for — both ends going wrong at once on an even chance share, which is where the minus-3 comes from and none of it is structural.

The Finesse Game

103 shots at a median of 50 feet with 71 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 5.8 per cent against a career 4.19.

30 career assists in 288 games. Six goals is a career high by three and there is nothing else to say about the offence. He gets the puck off the wall and out, and he does not carry it.

The Physical Game

He hits everything at 6-3 and 225, and 316 career penalty minutes in 288 games is what that produces.

He will fight anybody, clears the crease, and takes liberties on men who have already been beaten. Ninety-eight minutes in seventy-nine games on a club that spends the ninth-most time shorthanded in hockey is a real charge against the value.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick in 2015 out of Val-d’Or, six seasons across three organisations, and 44 points in 288 games.

He is 27 and plays eighteen and a half minutes on the top pair of a club that finished eleventh. That is more than a player of this description usually gets, and the chance share says it was earned.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,251 minutes

Expected goals
50.1%
54th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
50.1%
56th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 56 against. Expected: 50.2 and 50.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
37th
Numbers
54th

The two rank him within 17 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 — 63 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 · 1251 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, 2023-24

The club
NSH took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.1% — 2.4 below the club he did it on.
The role
First pair, 1,251 minutes at five-on-five — 86th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Alexandre Carrier49.5%51.0%54.2%
Filip Forsberg48.1%51.0%56.8%
Gustav Nyquist49.0%50.6%53.8%

49.5% together, 51.0% for him apart and 54.2% for Carrier apart. Carrier was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

150 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 38 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.