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Jonas Brodin

50 games, 1 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and a defenceman who does exactly one thing.

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

2012-13	MIN	45	2	9	11	+3	10	1	0	0	51	3.9	23:13
2013-14	MIN	79	8	11	19	0	22	3	0	0	74	10.8	23:54
2014-15	MIN	71	3	14	17	+21	8	0	0	1	95	3.2	24:10
2015-16	MIN	68	2	5	7	-5	20	0	0	0	58	3.5	20:25
2016-17	MIN	68	3	22	25	+5	20	2	0	2	85	3.5	19:34
2017-18	MIN	73	6	15	21	+23	30	0	0	1	77	7.8	21:36
2018-19	MIN	82	4	14	18	-15	30	0	1	2	111	3.6	20:33
2019-20	MIN	69	2	26	28	+15	24	0	0	0	103	1.9	21:33
2020-21	MIN	53	9	14	23	+2	18	1	0	2	79	11.4	22:26
2021-22	MIN	73	5	25	30	+9	18	1	0	1	126	4.0	23:26
2022-23	MIN	60	3	11	14	+13	30	0	0	0	90	3.3	22:52
2023-24	MIN	62	7	20	27	+22	16	0	0	1	117	6.0	23:22
2024-25	MIN	50	4	16	20	+10	18	0	0	1	71	5.6	22:57
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	853	58	202	260	+103	264	8	1	11	1137	5.1	22:15

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

4 goals and 16 assists in 50 games for 20 points, plus-10, on 22:57 a night.

50.0 per cent at five-on-five, the 52nd percentile, over 945 minutes. 86 per cent of his shots came from beyond 40 feet and 1 per cent from inside 20 — 71 attempts and 4 goals.

The Finesse Game

There is essentially no offence and it is not the job. The first pass is clean and quick and 16 assists in 50 games is a fair return for a defensive defenceman.

The skating is the tool: he closes a gap at the blue line as well as anybody in the league and recovers when beaten, which is why he has held a shutdown role for thirteen seasons.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 196, and light. He defends with position and stick rather than force, does not clear a crease decisively, and is rarely beaten badly enough to need to.

18 penalty minutes over 50 games is excellent. The body is the recurring issue — he has cleared 70 games twice in six seasons.

The Intangibles

A first-round pick, fourteen seasons in one organisation, and a decade of being among the more underrated defensive defencemen in the league.

At 32 the projection is 60 games of very good defending. This blue line has two men in their thirties who cannot stay healthy and a 23-year-old playing 25 minutes because of it.

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
ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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
86.4% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
18:54 a game at five-on-five, 95th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
defends-with-reacha strength· takes the puck before the contact happens
“He defends with position and stick rather than force”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“does not clear a crease decisively”
playmakerpresent and ordinary· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“The first pass is clean and quick and 16 assists in 50 games is a fair return for a defensive defenceman.”
defensively-responsiblea strength· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“he closes a gap at the blue line as well as anybody in the league and recovers when beaten, which is why he has held a shutdown role for thirteen seasons”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 945 minutes

Expected goals: 50%; 53rd pct
Shot attempts: 48%; 34th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 36 against. Expected: 32.4 and 32.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

60th

Numbers

53rd

The two rank him within 7 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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 · 50 games

Top speed: 21.3 mph; 32nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.44 a game
Distance: 3.30 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.8 mph; 21st 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 · 945 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: MIN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.0% — 0.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: 945 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jared Spurgeon	58.1%	45.6%	52.3%
Brock Faber	45.4%	53.2%	46.5%
Matt Boldy	54.4%	47.5%	53.2%

58.1% together, 45.6% for him apart and 52.3% for Spurgeon 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

88 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 59 feet. 1% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 86% from beyond forty.