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Jimmy Snuggerud

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Jimmy Snuggerud

St. Louis Blues Right Wing #21

21 goals and 51 points in his first full season.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2024-25STL7134001001010.015:28
2025-26STL70213051+161850516912.416:42
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—77223355+161860517912.316:35

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

21 goals and 30 assists in 70 games — 51 points, plus-16, at 16:42 a night with 5 power-play goals. His first full professional season, at 21.

55 points in 77 career games.

The Finesse Game

A shooter with a genuinely heavy release. 260 unblocked attempts — the most of any St. Louis forward — from a median of 27 feet with 36 per cent from inside 20, and 21 goals out of it.

30 assists says the passing is not an afterthought. 51 points from a 21-year-old in 16 minutes a night is a genuinely strong first season and the plus-16 is second among the club’s forwards to Robert Thomas.

The Physical Game

6-1, 193, and he goes to the interior more than most young scorers do. 18 penalty minutes.

He is not heavy yet and the wall work is where he loses exchanges. The skating is honest rather than quick.

The Intangibles

50.0 per cent of the expected goals, 54th percentile, and 47.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 31st, across 979 minutes — with the goals 49 for and 35 against.

That is the worst on-ice goal margin on the club sitting underneath the best plus-minus among its forwards, which is the sort of contradiction special teams produce.

13 points in his last 10, 5 of them goals. He is 22, a 23rd overall pick out of Minnesota, and along with Dvorsky and Neighbours the reason this club looks different from the one that won in 2019.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 979 minutes

Expected goals
50%
55th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47.6%
32nd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 49 for, 35 against. Expected: 43.5 and 43.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
78th
Numbers
55th

The report ranks him 23 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 77 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 · 70 games

Top speed
22.1 mph
40th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.04 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.66 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
95.6 mph
97th pct

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

13

points in his last 10 games — 5 goals, 8 assists, 32 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 979 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
STL took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.0% — 0.2 below the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 979 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Robert Thomas53.6%47.0%56.9%
Philip Broberg50.2%49.9%52.2%
Cam Fowler49.5%50.3%48.9%

53.6% together, 47.0% for him apart and 56.9% for Thomas apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Thomas and did not follow 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

260 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.