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Jesper Bratt

The 92nd percentile, 61 expected goals for, and 38 actual ones.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2017-18	NJD	74	13	22	35	-16	18	4	1	2	100	13.0	15:15
2018-19	NJD	51	8	25	33	-8	6	1	0	1	91	8.8	15:10
2019-20	NJD	60	16	16	32	-6	6	1	0	2	101	15.8	13:59
2020-21	NJD	46	7	23	30	+4	8	2	0	1	101	6.9	16:05
2021-22	NJD	76	26	47	73	0	16	3	0	6	197	13.2	17:26
2022-23	NJD	82	32	41	73	+14	6	8	0	3	212	15.1	17:22
2023-24	NJD	82	27	56	83	-6	12	7	0	7	248	10.9	19:18
2024-25	NJD	81	21	67	88	+5	18	4	2	2	180	11.7	18:57
2025-26	NJD	82	22	49	71	-11	12	5	1	4	178	12.4	18:46
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	634	172	346	518	-24	102	35	4	28	1408	12.2	17:10

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

22 goals and 49 assists in all 82 games — 71 points, minus-11, at 18:46 a night with 12 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

a 162nd overall pick who has become one of the better playmaking wingers in the league. The edges are the tell — he turns inside a defenceman in a space that does not look available and comes out with the puck still on his stick.

49 assists is a first-line number. The shooting is good and undersold: 262 unblocked attempts, 27 goals, median 25 feet with 38 per cent inside 20.

The Physical Game

5-10 and 175 pounds, and 12 penalty minutes in a full season. He is not going near a wall battle. On a roster where Hughes is the same size and Bratt is the same weight, this is a club with 2 of its 3 best forwards built like this.

The Intangibles

The most extreme individual gap in this edition. He was on the ice for 54.9 per cent of the expected goals, 87th percentile, with the chances running 59.2 to 48.6 in his favour — and the goals went 46 for and 58 against.

That is a shortfall of roughly 27 goals, worse than Seider’s 32 only because Seider played more minutes. Every good player on this club has a version of this page.

15 points in his last 10. He is 27, 518 points into 634 games, and the minus-11 beside his name is one of the least informative numbers in this book.

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

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.

disciplined· stays out of the box
0.15 penalty minutes a game over 82, 6th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
54.9% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 48.4% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.5, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
63% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,184 minutes

Expected goals: 54.9%; 87th pct
Shot attempts: 55.8%; 92nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 46 for, 58 against. Expected: 59.2 and 48.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

82nd

Numbers

87th

Blind

67th

The two rank him within 5 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.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 20 points from the numbers; this one lands 5. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.

All three 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 — 78 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.6 mph; 71st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.11 a game
Distance: 3.13 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.3 mph; 46th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 5 goals, 10 assists, 24 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1184 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, 2025-26

The club: NJD took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.9% — 4.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,184 minutes at five-on-five — 81st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jack Hughes	54.7%	55.2%	51.9%
Luke Hughes	57.9%	53.3%	46.9%
Dougie Hamilton	57.2%	53.7%	49.9%

54.7% together, 55.2% for him apart and 51.9% for Hughes apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

262 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 27 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.