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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Jonatan Berggren

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Jonatan Berggren

St. Louis Blues Right Wing #29

51 games, and the 77th percentile in shot attempts.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2022-23DET67151328-14165009815.313:28
2023-24DET12246-120001414.310:52
2024-25DET75121224-13143018813.612:59
2025-26DET/STL5181422-5123025813.813:49
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—205374380-3344110325814.313:14

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

8 goals and 14 assists in 51 games — 22 points, minus-5, at 13:49 a night with 3 power-play goals and only 12 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Skilled and light. 89 unblocked attempts, 8 goals, median 27 feet with 27 per cent from inside 20 — a perimeter shot chart, and the reason the goals are modest.

14 assists in 14 minutes a night is the better half. 80 points in 205 career games.

He is a genuinely creative passer on a power play and that is where 3 of his goals and a good share of the assists came from.

The Physical Game

5-11, 195, and he does not go to the net. 12 penalty minutes in 51 games is among the lowest rates in this edition and it is not a compliment here.

There is no forechecking game and no wall play, which is why 5 seasons in he is still a thirteenth forward as often as not.

The Intangibles

49.6 per cent of the expected goals, 51st percentile, and 52.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 76th, across 637 minutes, with the goals level at 25-27.

That is a rare shape — a good attempt share and a level chance share — and it says the shots he is on the ice for come from the outside at both ends.

6 points in his last 10. He is 26, a 33rd overall pick who Detroit could not find a role for, and a skilled winger with no physical game on a club that has plenty of them.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 637 minutes

Expected goals
49.6%
52nd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.3%
76th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 25 for, 27 against. Expected: 24.6 and 25.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
38th
Numbers
52nd

The two rank him within 14 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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, 2025-26 · 51 games

Top speed
22.7 mph
71st pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.69 a game

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

Distance
2.21 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
80.5 mph
22nd pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

6

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 5 assists, 14 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 472 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, 2025-26

The club
STL took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.6% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 637 minutes at five-on-five — 26th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Dalibor Dvorsky48.3%50.1%46.6%
Cam Fowler60.1%45.5%47.6%
Colton Parayko44.6%51.3%52.2%

48.3% together, 50.1% for him apart and 46.6% for Dvorsky 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

89 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 27% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.