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John Tavares
Toronto Maple Leafs Center
A hundred and forty-three career power-play goals, and the closest shot chart of any regular forward on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10 | NYI | 82 | 24 | 30 | 54 | -15 | 22 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 186 | 12.9 | 18:00 |
| 2010-11 | NYI | 79 | 29 | 38 | 67 | -16 | 53 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 243 | 11.9 | 19:15 |
| 2011-12 | NYI | 82 | 31 | 50 | 81 | -6 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 286 | 10.8 | 20:34 |
| 2012-13 | NYI | 48 | 28 | 19 | 47 | -2 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 162 | 17.3 | 20:46 |
| 2013-14 | NYI | 59 | 24 | 42 | 66 | -6 | 40 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 188 | 12.8 | 21:15 |
| 2014-15 | NYI | 82 | 38 | 48 | 86 | +5 | 46 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 278 | 13.7 | 20:40 |
| 2015-16 | NYI | 78 | 33 | 37 | 70 | +6 | 38 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 250 | 13.2 | 20:00 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 77 | 28 | 38 | 66 | +4 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 260 | 10.8 | 20:25 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 82 | 37 | 47 | 84 | -12 | 26 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 257 | 14.4 | 19:56 |
| 2018-19 | TOR | 82 | 47 | 41 | 88 | +19 | 34 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 286 | 16.4 | 19:05 |
| 2019-20 | TOR | 63 | 26 | 34 | 60 | -7 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 197 | 13.2 | 19:33 |
| 2020-21 | TOR | 56 | 19 | 31 | 50 | +12 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 163 | 11.7 | 18:12 |
| 2021-22 | TOR | 79 | 27 | 49 | 76 | -8 | 32 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 237 | 11.4 | 18:04 |
| 2022-23 | TOR | 80 | 36 | 44 | 80 | -7 | 34 | 18 | 0 | 9 | 277 | 13.0 | 17:39 |
| 2023-24 | TOR | 80 | 29 | 36 | 65 | +2 | 30 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 279 | 10.4 | 17:52 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1109 | 456 | 584 | 1040 | -31 | 475 | 143 | 3 | 74 | 3549 | 12.8 | 19:22 |
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
80 games, 29 goals and 36 assists for 65 points, 9 on the power play, 30 penalty minutes, 17:52 a night and plus-2, with 6 game-winners. He took 55.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,122 minutes, the 89th percentile, and his ice went 50-41 against an expectation of 55.14-44.71.
Five goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and four goals of goaltending above them. Nine of his 29 goals came on the power play.
The Finesse Game
381 attempts at a median of 17 feet with 55 per cent of them from inside twenty and 14 per cent from beyond forty, 275 of those on goal, converted at 10.4 per cent against a career 12.85 across 3,549 shots.
456 career goals and 584 assists in 1,109 games. A seventeen-foot median attempt is the closest chart of any regular forward on this club; at 33 he no longer beats anybody wide and has moved his whole game into the paint, and 143 career power-play goals is what that is worth on a first unit.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 217 and took 30 penalty minutes.
475 career penalty minutes in 1,109 games. He is thickly built and holds the net front against defencemen who outweigh him, taking cross-checks without moving and without answering; that is now the largest part of what he offers.
The Intangibles
First overall in 2009 by the Islanders, fifteen seasons, two organisations, and 1,040 points in 1,109 games.
A career minus-31 across fifteen seasons. He has 1,040 points and 143 power-play goals, and at 33 he has become a net-front specialist on a club that has better wingers than it has centres.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,122 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.2%
- 89th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.9%
- 71st 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: 50 for, 41 against. Expected: 55.1 and 44.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 — 79 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 · 1122 minutes at five-on-five
- Mitch Marner20%
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 55.2% — 3.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,122 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Nylander | 56.2% | 53.7% | 47.6% |
| Tyler Bertuzzi | 58.9% | 51.2% | 53.0% |
| Morgan Rielly | 55.3% | 55.2% | 47.9% |
56.2% together, 53.7% for him apart and 47.6% for Nylander apart. Nylander was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Nylander than for 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
381 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 29 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 55% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.