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John Marino
Utah Hockey Club Defense
A career plus-38 in 328 games, and seventeen goals of goaltending against him last season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | PIT | 56 | 6 | 20 | 26 | +17 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 9.8 | 20:15 |
| 2020-21 | PIT | 52 | 3 | 10 | 13 | +5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 56 | 5.4 | 20:44 |
| 2021-22 | PIT | 81 | 1 | 24 | 25 | +1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 1.1 | 20:38 |
| 2022-23 | NJD | 64 | 4 | 14 | 18 | +21 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 6.0 | 21:04 |
| 2023-24 | NJD | 75 | 4 | 21 | 25 | -6 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 7.0 | 20:57 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 328 | 18 | 89 | 107 | +38 | 112 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 331 | 5.4 | 20:44 |
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
75 games with New Jersey, 4 goals and 21 assists for 25 points, 41 penalty minutes, 20:57 a night and minus-6, with 1 game-winner. He took 49.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,296 minutes, the 48th percentile, and his ice went 53-71 against an expectation of 52.88-54.21.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and seventeen more conceded than they called for. Seventeen goals of goaltending against him is the largest negative figure of anybody on this roster and none of it is a thing a defenceman controls.
The Finesse Game
86 attempts at a median of 49 feet with 66 per cent of them from beyond forty and 15 per cent from inside twenty, 57 of those on goal, converted at 7.0 per cent against a career 5.44 across 331 shots.
Eighty-nine career assists against 18 goals in 328 games. He moves the puck up the ice on the first look and almost never shoots it; 86 attempts in 75 games at twenty-one minutes a night is the lowest volume of any defenceman on this club who played a full season.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 200 and took 41 penalty minutes.
112 career penalty minutes in 328 games. He defends with his stick and his gap and blocks a great many shots; five seasons of twenty-minute assignments have cost him fewer than a hundred and twenty penalty minutes.
The Intangibles
One hundred and fifty-fourth overall in 2015 by Edmonton, five seasons, and Utah will be his third organisation.
A career plus-38 in 328 games. He was a sixth-round pick by a club he never played a game for and has finished on the right side of the ledger in four of his five seasons.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,296 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.4%
- 48th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.8%
- 70th 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: 53 for, 71 against. Expected: 52.9 and 54.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 32 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 with NJD · 1296 minutes at five-on-five
- Luke Hughes31%
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
- NJD took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.4% — 1.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,296 minutes at five-on-five — 89th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Bahl | 50.0% | 48.9% | 51.2% |
| Jesper Bratt | 55.1% | 46.4% | 57.4% |
| Luke Hughes | 49.9% | 49.2% | 52.7% |
50.0% together, 48.9% for him apart and 51.2% for Bahl 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
86 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 16% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 66% from beyond forty.