Joey Anderson

Eight penalty minutes in fifty-five games and a plus-5 on the club that finished thirty-first.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2018-19	NJD	34	4	3	7	-7	6	0	1	1	49	8.2	12:54
2019-20	NJD	18	4	2	6	+1	2	0	0	0	21	19.1	13:13
2020-21	TOR	1	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0	—	9:36
2021-22	TOR	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0.0	8:46
2022-23	TOR/CHI	38	6	3	9	-8	0	0	0	1	41	14.6	11:42
2023-24	CHI	55	5	12	17	+5	8	0	0	0	57	8.8	13:33
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	151	19	20	39	-8	18	0	1	2	178	10.7	12:43

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

Fifty-five games, 5 goals and 12 assists, 13:33 a night, and plus-5. He took 45.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 677 minutes, the 21st percentile, and his ice went 27-24 against an expectation of 20.87-25.46.

A plus-5 sitting on top of a share in the 4th percentile is the most contradictory pair of numbers on the roster, and the on-ice ledger of 27-24 says which of them to believe.

The Finesse Game

Fifty-seven shots in 55 games at a median of 30 feet, converted at 8.77 per cent. He is not a scorer and 19 goals in 151 career games says so plainly.

Twelve assists in 55 games is a reasonable rate for a fourth-line winger and the puck moves quickly off his stick. Nothing about the offensive game will decide his career.

The Physical Game

He is 6-0 and 207 and finishes his checks without taking penalties for it — 8 penalty minutes in 55 games and 18 in 151 across his career, which is a very low rate for a man who plays this way.

He forechecks hard and gets to the front of the net, and at that weight he holds a wall better than the height suggests.

The Intangibles

A third-round pick in 2016 out of Minnesota, captain of a world junior side, and now on his third organisation at 26. One hundred and fifty-one games across six seasons is the career of a man who keeps being the thirteenth forward.

On a club this thin he played 55 games. On a good one he plays five.

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.

disciplined· stays out of the box
0.15 penalty minutes a game over 55, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“He forechecks hard and gets to the front of the net, and at that weight he holds a wall better than the height suggests.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He is 6-0 and 207 and finishes his checks without taking penalties for it — 8 penalty minutes in 55 games and 18 in 151 across his career, which is a very low rate for a man who plays this way.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 677 minutes

Expected goals: 45%; 21st pct
Shot attempts: 48.2%; 37th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 27 for, 24 against. Expected: 20.9 and 25.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

6th

Numbers

21st

The two rank him within 15 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 652 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, 2023-24 · 55 games

Top speed: 21.5 mph; 22nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.49 a game
Distance: 2.11 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.5 mph; 30th 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

2023-24 · 677 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, 2023-24

The club: CHI took 41.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.0% — 3.1 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 677 minutes at five-on-five — 30th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jason Dickinson	48.5%	33.7%	44.6%
Alex Vlasic	51.8%	38.9%	44.9%
Colin Blackwell	44.9%	45.1%	42.3%

48.5% together, 33.7% for him apart and 44.6% for Dickinson apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

80 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 29% from beyond forty.