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Jesper Boqvist
Florida Panthers Center
A second-round pick on his third organisation at 25, and 69 points in 236 games.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 236 | 34 | 35 | 69 | -5 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 267 | 12.7 | 11:43 |
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
47 games in Boston, 6 goals and 8 assists for 14 points, 8 penalty minutes, 11:09 a night and plus-12. He took 51.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 509 minutes, the 63rd percentile, and his ice went 19-9 against an expectation of 17.76-16.77, all of it with the Bruins.
Eight goals fewer conceded than the chances called for in five hundred minutes, which is noise and a good goaltender. He arrives in Florida as a fourth-line option on a one-year contract.
The Finesse Game
51 shots at a median of 22 feet with 47 per cent from inside 20, converted at 11.8 per cent.
35 career assists in 236 games. He skates well and gets to the interior and there has never been much at the end of it. Sixty-nine points in 236 games across five seasons is a fourth-line rate.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 191 and neither initiates nor absorbs contact.
8 penalty minutes in 47 games is a very low rate and 30 in 236 career games is lower still. There is nothing in his game that produces a penalty and nothing that produces a hit.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2017 out of Falun, five seasons in New Jersey and Boston, and a career minus-5.
He is 25 and has not established himself anywhere. On a club this deep he is the thirteenth forward, which is a job and not a career.
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
- 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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
35% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 6th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He is 6-1 and 191 and neither initiates nor absorbs contact.”
“He is 6-1 and 191 and neither initiates nor absorbs contact.”
“There is nothing in his game that produces a penalty and nothing that produces a hit.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 509 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.4%
- 63rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.2%
- 30th 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: 19 for, 9 against. Expected: 17.8 and 16.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 50 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 · 47 games
- Top speed
- 22.4 mph
- 60th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.02 a game
- Distance
- 1.93 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 80.2 mph
- 20th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 with BOS · 509 minutes at five-on-five
- Justin Brazeau27%
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
- BOS took 49.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.4% — 1.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 509 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Carlo | 43.1% | 55.9% | 46.5% |
| Charlie McAvoy | 59.0% | 48.3% | 50.1% |
| Matt Grzelcyk | 57.7% | 48.8% | 45.3% |
43.1% together, 55.9% for him apart and 46.5% for Carlo 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
59 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.