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Jonah Gadjovich

Florida Panthers Left Wing

One hundred and four penalty minutes in 39 games, the second-highest rate in this edition.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21VAN1000-1170000—4:55
2021-22SJS43123-974000362.88:45
2022-23SJS35347-357000329.48:59
2023-24FLA392240104000296.97:26
2024-25 so far—————————————
Career—1186814-13252000976.28:21

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

39 games, 2 goals and 2 assists for 4 points, 104 penalty minutes, 7:26 a night and even. He took 45.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 284 minutes, the 26th percentile, and his ice went 7-7 against an expectation of 9.04-10.67.

Seven minutes a night and a hundred and four penalty minutes. That is the job as the club has written it, and 284 minutes of five-on-five across a full season says how sparingly it is used.

The Finesse Game

29 shots at a median of 23 feet with 44 per cent from inside 20. Six goals in 118 career games.

8 career assists in 118 games. There is no offence here and there is not meant to be. What he does with the puck is put it behind the defence and go and get it back.

The Physical Game

He is 6-3 and 211 and hits everything, and 252 career penalty minutes in 118 games is a rate of more than two a game.

104 penalty minutes in 39 games is 2.67 a game, the second-highest rate in this edition behind Austin Watson. He will fight anybody, he forechecks hard, and he takes liberties after the whistle. On a club that spends the second-most time in the league shorthanded, that is a genuine cost as well as a purpose.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick in 2017 out of Whitby, four seasons, and 14 points in 118 games. He has a Stanley Cup ring and 252 penalty minutes and almost nothing else on his record.

The club knows exactly what this is. He plays when the game needs somebody to change its temperature and he sits when it does not.

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

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.

  • punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally

    “He is 6-3 and 211 and hits everything, and 252 career penalty minutes in 118 games is a rate of more than two a game.”

  • nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point

    “He will fight anybody, he forechecks hard, and he takes liberties after the whistle.”

  • takes-libertiesa strength· crosses the line and knows where it is

    “He will fight anybody, he forechecks hard, and he takes liberties after the whistle.”

  • forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck

    “He will fight anybody, he forechecks hard, and he takes liberties after the whistle.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 284 minutes

Expected goals
45.9%
26th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.6%
52nd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 7 for, 7 against. Expected: 9.0 and 10.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
11th
Numbers
26th

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 — 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 · 39 games

Top speed
22.5 mph
65th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1

Bursts over 20 mph
0.92 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.21 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
82.2 mph
25th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 84.5

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 · 284 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
FLA took 53.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.9% — 7.8 below the club he did it on.
The role
Fourth line, 284 minutes at five-on-five — 5th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Dmitry Kulikov45.6%46.1%54.7%
Brandon Montour39.1%49.2%54.5%
Oliver Ekman-Larsson39.0%50.3%55.3%

45.6% together, 46.1% for him apart and 54.7% for Kulikov apart. Kulikov was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

39 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.