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Jesper Boqvist
New Jersey Devils Center #70
Drafted by New Jersey, gone for 3 seasons, and back again.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | NJD | 35 | 4 | 0 | 4 | -11 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 9.8 | 10:57 |
| 2020-21 | NJD | 28 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 11.8 | 11:09 |
| 2021-22 | NJD | 56 | 10 | 13 | 23 | -9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 74 | 13.5 | 13:08 |
| 2022-23 | NJD | 70 | 10 | 11 | 21 | +8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 67 | 14.9 | 11:36 |
| 2023-24 | BOS | 47 | 6 | 8 | 14 | +12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 11.8 | 11:09 |
| 2024-25 | FLA | 78 | 12 | 11 | 23 | -4 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 87 | 13.8 | 13:15 |
| 2025-26 | FLA | 73 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -11 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 6.3 | 11:50 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 387 | 50 | 55 | 105 | -20 | 60 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 418 | 12.0 | 12:03 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 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
4 goals and 9 assists in 73 games — 13 points, minus-11, at 11:50 a night with 16 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Florida.
The Finesse Game
Modest and reasonably placed. 108 unblocked attempts, 4 goals, median 25 feet with 42 per cent from inside 20.
4 goals from 108 tries is a poor conversion off decent ice, and 105 points in 387 career games is the rate of a fourth-line forward who has never quite scored enough to be anything else.
9 assists in 73 games says the same thing from the other direction.
The Physical Game
6-1, 191, and light. 16 penalty minutes in a full season is very low.
The skating is genuinely good — he is quick through the neutral zone and it is the reason he keeps getting work — but he does not win pucks on a wall and does not go to the interior often enough to use the speed.
The Intangibles
47.6 per cent of the expected goals, 33rd percentile, and 47.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 32nd, across 782 minutes in Florida.
He is 27, a 36th overall pick who New Jersey drafted, gave a first crack at, let go, and has now brought back after 3 seasons in a winning organisation.
That is a fourth-line centre who has watched a Stanley Cup team work from the inside, which is worth something on a roster that has not found out what that looks like.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 782 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.6%
- 33rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.7%
- 33rd 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: 22 for, 33 against. Expected: 27.6 and 30.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 18 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 73 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 88th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.96 a game
- Distance
- 2.02 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.7 mph
- 42nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
3
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 2 assists, 18 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with FLA · 782 minutes at five-on-five
- Luke Kuninoff the roster17%
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, 2025-26
- The club
- FLA took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 2.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 782 minutes at five-on-five — 36th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mackie Samoskevich | 53.6% | 45.0% | 56.1% |
| Evan Rodrigues | 50.5% | 46.2% | 55.6% |
| Gustav Forsling | 47.7% | 47.5% | 53.2% |
53.6% together, 45.0% for him apart and 56.1% for Samoskevich apart. He was worse away from Samoskevich, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Samoskevich did.
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
108 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.