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Joel Edmundson
Montreal Canadiens Defense
Twenty-four games at 19:35, the hardest zone starts of any Montreal defenceman, and a career plus-52 against a 40.8 per cent chance share.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | STL | 67 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 1.1 | 14:56 |
| 2016-17 | STL | 69 | 3 | 12 | 15 | +11 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 81 | 3.7 | 17:46 |
| 2017-18 | STL | 69 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -1 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 5.7 | 20:44 |
| 2018-19 | STL | 64 | 2 | 9 | 11 | +8 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 102 | 2.0 | 19:23 |
| 2019-20 | CAR | 68 | 7 | 13 | 20 | +7 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 7.2 | 18:27 |
| 2020-21 | MTL | 55 | 3 | 10 | 13 | +28 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 3.9 | 20:03 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 24 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -1 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 9.4 | 19:35 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 416 | 26 | 65 | 91 | +52 | 380 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 603 | 4.3 | 18:34 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
3 goals and 3 assists in twenty-four games at 19:35 a night, minus-1, thirty-five penalty minutes. Forty-sixth overall in 2011, eight seasons, 416 games, a career plus-52.
Three hundred and ninety-nine five-on-five minutes is below the qualifying lines, so this is raw.
The Finesse Game
His ice took 40.8 per cent of the five-on-five expected goals, the second-worst figure on the club among men who played twenty games. His ice went 20-21 against an expectation of 15.06-21.86.
40.1 per cent of his end-zone starts came in the attacking end — the 91st-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts, and the hardest assignment of any Montreal defenceman. On a club that finished 28th in expected goals against per 60, he was being handed the worst of it.
Thirty-two shots at a 55-foot median with 78 per cent from beyond forty feet, on 95.5 mph. He shoots from the point and only from the point.
The Physical Game
Six-foot-five and 220 pounds with 380 career penalty minutes, and thirty-five of them came in twenty-four games. That is a high rate even for him.
Across 399 minutes the per-60 rates are not stable enough to quote, which is the honest position on a twenty-four-game season.
The Intangibles
21.5 mph is the 13th percentile of the 568 skaters who played forty games and 0.2 sprints a game is the 5th. He is among the least mobile defencemen the league measures, which is not new information about a 6-5 defensive defenceman.
The career plus-52 was built in St. Louis and Montreal across 416 games, and this season’s minus-1 in twenty-four games is the least informative number in his file.
He is 29 and played twenty-four of eighty-two. A defence corps that has lost Petry, Romanov, Kulak and Clague needs him to play seventy, and nothing in this record says whether he will.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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
40% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“Six-foot-five and 220 pounds with 380 career penalty minutes, and thirty-five of them came in twenty-four games.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 399 minutes
- Expected goals
- 40.8%
- 5th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44%
- 10th 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: 20 for, 21 against. Expected: 15.1 and 21.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 21 points above where the numbers do. 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 55 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, 2021-22 · 24 games
- Top speed
- 21.5 mph
- 45th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.17 a game
- Distance
- 2.63 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.5 mph
- 73rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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
2021-22 · 399 minutes at five-on-five
- Justin Barron15%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- MTL took 46.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.8% — 5.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 399 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Petry | 48.6% | 31.6% | 48.6% |
| Josh Anderson | 46.4% | 38.5% | 47.1% |
| Nick Suzuki | 35.9% | 43.4% | 46.9% |
48.6% together, 31.6% for him apart and 48.6% for Petry apart. He was worse away from Petry, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Petry 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
41 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 39 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.