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Joel Edmundson
Los Angeles Kings Defense
Six foot five, 461 career penalty minutes, and a chance share in the bottom third of the league.
| 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 | MTL | 61 | 2 | 11 | 13 | -29 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 2.9 | 19:34 |
| 2023-24 | WSH/TOR | 53 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 2.2 | 16:40 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 530 | 29 | 81 | 110 | +21 | 461 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 718 | 4.0 | 18:30 |
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
53 games between Washington and Toronto, 1 goal and 5 assists for 6 points, 23 penalty minutes, 16:40 a night and minus-2. He took 47.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 790 minutes, the 33rd percentile, and his ice went 32-33 against an expectation of 29.97-33.56.
Two goals of finishing above expectation on his ice and one fewer conceded than the chances called for. The results were better than the play, and the play was in the bottom third of the league.
The Finesse Game
46 shots at a median of 54 feet with 77 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 2.2 per cent against a career 4.0.
81 career assists in 530 games. There is no puck-moving to speak of and there is no shot. He gets it off the wall and out, and when he is pressured he puts it off the glass.
The Physical Game
He is 6-5 and 220 and hits as hard as anybody on this roster, and 461 career penalty minutes in 530 games is what a decade of it costs.
He will fight, he clears the crease, and nobody moves him from the front of it. He blocks shots and he kills penalties, and the stick comes out when he has been beaten wide.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2011 out of Brandon, Manitoba, nine seasons across five organisations, and 110 points in 530 games. He has a Stanley Cup from St. Louis in 2019.
He is 31 and has played 24, 61 and 53 games in the last three seasons. The size and the ring are what is being bought and the chance share is what comes with them.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- 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 is 6-5 and 220 and hits as hard as anybody on this roster, and 461 career penalty minutes in 530 games is what a decade of it costs.”
“He will fight, he clears the crease, and nobody moves him from the front of it.”
“He will fight, he clears the crease, and nobody moves him from the front of it.”
“He will fight, he clears the crease, and nobody moves him from the front of it.”
“He blocks shots and he kills penalties, and the stick comes out when he has been beaten wide.”
“He blocks shots and he kills penalties, and the stick comes out when he has been beaten wide.”
“He blocks shots and he kills penalties, and the stick comes out when he has been beaten wide.”
“There is no puck-moving to speak of and there is no shot.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 790 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.2%
- 33rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.6%
- 32nd 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: 32 for, 33 against. Expected: 30.0 and 33.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 22 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 — 58 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 · 53 games
- Top speed
- 21.4 mph
- 39th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.32 a game
- Distance
- 2.28 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 98.2 mph
- 87th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 WSH · 658 minutes at five-on-five
- Ethan Bearoff the roster19%
- John Carlson14%
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
- TOR took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.2% — 4.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 790 minutes at five-on-five — 38th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Jensen | 46.6% | 47.6% | 44.5% |
| Dylan Strome | 51.6% | 45.7% | 54.7% |
| Alex Ovechkin | 38.8% | 49.6% | 47.6% |
46.6% together, 47.6% for him apart and 44.5% for Jensen 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
70 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 56 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 77% from beyond forty.