Jesse Ylonen
Montreal Canadiens Right Wing
Zero penalty minutes in thirty-seven games, and six goals on twenty-nine close-range shots.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | MTL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 11:23 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 14 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 12.5 | 11:34 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 37 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 14.0 | 13:27 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 52 | 8 | 13 | 21 | -9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 13.3 | 12:54 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
6 goals and 10 assists in 37 games — 16 points — at 13:27 a night, and no penalty minutes at all. Minus-11, 43 shots at 14.0 per cent.
Zero penalty minutes across thirty-seven games. Very few players in this book manage that at any workload.
42.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 8th percentile — the second-lowest on the club — with his ice at 15-25 against an expectation of 13.87-19.10 across 457 minutes.
Three seasons, 52 games, 21 points.
The Finesse Game
43 shots at a median of 31 feet, 33 per cent from inside twenty and 25 per cent from beyond forty.
Beyond forty: 11 shots on goal and no goals. Inside forty: 29 shots and 6 goals — 20.69 per cent.
Twenty-nine shots is nothing like enough to call that finishing, and the honest reading of six goals in thirty-seven games is that it was a good month rather than a rate.
90.2 mph at the 44th percentile, on four slap shots.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 193, and no penalty minutes.
Top speed 22.0 mph, the 37th percentile; bursts 1.6 a game, the 76th; 2.26 miles a game, the 29th.
He does not hit, does not go to the net front and does not win a puck along the wall, and the zero in the penalty column is a description of that rather than of his discipline.
48.7 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 40th percentile — close to even, which means the 8th-percentile chance share is not explained away by the assignment.
The Intangibles
Thirty-fifth overall in 2018 to Montreal, four seasons in Finland and the American league, and 52 NHL games at twenty-three.
The skill is real and the rest of the game is not there. On a rebuilding club with nothing at stake he will get another season to add it, which is more runway than most second-round picks are given.
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.
- 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 does not hit, does not go to the net front and does not win a puck along the wall, and the zero in the penalty column is a description of that rather than of his discipline.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 457 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.1%
- 9th pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.9%
- 8th 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: 15 for, 25 against. Expected: 13.9 and 19.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 56 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, 2022-23 · 37 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 45th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.57 a game
- Distance
- 2.26 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.2 mph
- 67th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.9
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
2022-23 · 457 minutes at five-on-five
- Nick Suzuki30%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- MTL took 44.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.1% — 1.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 457 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Matheson | 40.3% | 43.0% | 45.9% |
| Johnathan Kovacevic | 46.6% | 39.6% | 47.5% |
| David Savard | 37.7% | 44.3% | 44.1% |
40.3% together, 43.0% for him apart and 45.9% for Matheson apart. Matheson 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
51 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 33% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.