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Joel Edmundson

Plus-25 on on-ice goals of 64-47, which is 19 goals of help on an ordinary 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	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	LAK	73	6	14	20	+25	22	0	0	1	91	6.6	20:35
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	603	35	95	130	+46	483	0	0	3	809	4.3	18:45

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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 14 assists in 73 games for 20 points, plus-25, on 20:35 a night.

49.3 per cent at five-on-five, the 46th percentile — the second-lowest among the club’s defencemen. His on-ice goals were 64-47 against an expected 50.4-51.8, which is fourteen goals of finishing above expectation and five of goaltending. The plus-25 is almost entirely borrowed.

The Finesse Game

Very little. 91 shots with 88 per cent of them from beyond 40 feet and 3 per cent from inside 20 — the second-most perimeter shot chart in this edition — and a first pass that goes to the boards.

14 assists at 20 minutes a night is a low return. He is not asked to make plays.

The Physical Game

6-5 and 220, and this is the entire case. He clears his crease, hits hard, and is genuinely difficult to get past in front of the net.

22 penalty minutes over 73 games is disciplined for the size. The durability has been reasonable after several interrupted seasons.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick, six organisations, a Cup in St. Louis, and a career as a heavy defensive defenceman.

At 32 the projection is a third-pair defenceman who plays 20 minutes on a club with nobody else who can do the job. The plus-25 should be discounted by roughly 25.

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
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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
88.4% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 98th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
18:18 a game at five-on-five, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
clears-the-creasea strength· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He clears his crease, hits hard, and is genuinely difficult to get past in front of the net.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“hits hard”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“is genuinely difficult to get past in front of the net”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“14 assists at 20 minutes a night is a low return. He is not asked to make plays.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,336 minutes

Expected goals: 49.3%; 47th pct
Shot attempts: 50.9%; 63rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 64 for, 47 against. Expected: 50.4 and 51.8.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

21st

Numbers

47th

The numbers rank him 26 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 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, 2024-25 · 73 games

Top speed: 21.8 mph; 58th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.12 a game
Distance: 2.69 miles a game
Hardest shot: 97.4 mph; 88th 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1336 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, 2024-25

The club: LAK took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.3% — 4.7 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,336 minutes at five-on-five — 93rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Brandt Clarke	51.7%	46.2%	59.3%
Kevin Fiala	52.0%	48.2%	60.5%
Anze Kopitar	48.5%	49.7%	51.3%

51.7% together, 46.2% for him apart and 59.3% for Clarke apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Clarke 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

155 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 56 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 88% from beyond forty.