Jonathan Aspirot
Boston Bruins Defense
Plus-30 as an undrafted rookie at 27, and a 5-on-5 record that says he broke even.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | BOS | 61 | 3 | 10 | 13 | +30 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 6.4 | 16:44 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 61 | 3 | 10 | 13 | +30 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 6.4 | 16:44 |
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
3 goals and 10 assists in 61 games, plus-30, at 16:44 a night. His first NHL season, at 26 years old, after a professional career spent entirely in the minors.
The Finesse Game
Not the appeal. 87 unblocked attempts, 3 goals, and 82 per cent of them from beyond 40 feet with a median of 57 — the longest average shot distance of any player in this book. He puts it on net from the blue line and goes to work.
The Physical Game
6 foot even, 212, and he plays a compact, stubborn defensive game. 43 penalty minutes.
The Intangibles
2 numbers on this page contradict each other and both are printed because the reader is owed the disagreement.
The National Hockey League recorded him at plus-30, the best figure on the club. This book’s own 5-on-5 tracking has the goals at 54 for and 29 against while he was on the ice, with the expected goals running 39.7 to 40.6 against him and an on-ice rate in the 27th percentile.
Both are correct and they are measuring different things. Plus-minus counts overtime 3-on-3, 4-on-4, empty-net goals and shorthanded goals for — none of which appear in the 5-on-5 column, which covers the first 3 periods at even strength only. That is where a gap of this size comes from.
Which one describes his season better is the reader’s call. The 5-on-5 figure is the larger sample and the one tied to the expected goals beside it.
What is not in doubt: an undrafted defenceman played 61 NHL games at 26. That is a good story regardless of which column you trust.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 955 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.5%
- 50th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.5%
- 42nd 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: 54 for, 29 against. Expected: 39.7 and 40.6.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 49 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 59 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 · 61 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 73rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.54 a game
- Distance
- 2.37 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 97.2 mph
- 88th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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
2
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 2 assists, 13 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 955 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
- BOS took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.5% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 955 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlie McAvoy | 48.3% | 50.8% | 48.8% |
| David Pastrnak | 50.3% | 49.1% | 47.7% |
| Marat Khusnutdinov | 49.4% | 49.5% | 46.4% |
48.3% together, 50.8% for him apart and 48.8% for McAvoy 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
87 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 35 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 82% from beyond forty.