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Jonathan Huberdeau

Calgary Flames Left Wing

Four hundred and ninety-five career assists, and twelve goals on a hundred and forty-three shots.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2012-13FLA48141731-151820111212.516:56
2013-14FLA6991928-5372011088.315:40
2014-15FLA79153954+10380001698.916:45
2015-16FLA76203959+174341217411.518:09
2016-17FLA31101626-2133028611.617:55
2017-18FLA82274269-23270420413.219:12
2018-19FLA82306292-1440110522613.318:51
2019-20FLA69235578+53050315215.118:46
2020-21FLA55204161+123650112216.418:25
2021-22FLA803085115+355453722213.519:25
2022-23CGY79154055+23640112611.916:52
2023-24CGY81124052-29494021438.417:25
2024-25 so far
Career831225495720+1442652429184412.217:54

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

12 goals and 40 assists in 81 games — 52 points at 17:25 a night, minus-29, with 4 power-play goals and 2 game-winners on 143 shots at 8.39 per cent, and 49 penalty minutes.

Forty assists is the largest source of distribution on the club and twelve goals is the fewest he has scored in a full season since he was nineteen.

51.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,120 minutes, the 61st percentile — a good share, and the minus-29 belongs to the crease behind him.

The Finesse Game

143 attempts at a median of 23 feet, with 42 per cent from inside 20 and 17 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 8.39 per cent against a career 12.20 across 1,844 shots.

The passing is the player and it is still there. He holds the puck below the goal line and waits for the seam rather than forcing it, and 495 career assists in 831 games is a distributor’s record of the first order.

The shot has gone. Twelve goals on 143 attempts from a man who scored 30 twice in Florida is the whole of the disappointment, and it is a shooting rate rather than a chance problem.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 200. He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he plays away from contact by design.

49 penalty minutes in 81 games and 426 in 831 for his career is a moderate rate for a player who does not hit anybody.

The Intangibles

Third overall in 2011 by Florida, and 831 games and 720 points at 31, including a 115-point season two years before he arrived here.

He signed an eight-year contract on the day he was traded and has not been the same player since. Fifty-two points and the sixty-first percentile of chances is a good second-line winger, and it is a long way from what the contract assumed — which is now the largest single problem on this club’s books.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,120 minutes

Expected goals
51.1%
61st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.7%
77th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 46 for, 46 against. Expected: 50.1 and 47.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
46th
Numbers
61st

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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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 · 1120 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
CGY took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 1.2 above the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 1,120 minutes at five-on-five — 75th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
MacKenzie Weegar52.6%50.1%49.1%
Rasmus Andersson48.6%52.8%48.4%
Yegor Sharangovich52.9%50.1%52.0%

52.6% together, 50.1% for him apart and 49.1% for Weegar apart. Weegar was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Weegar 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

212 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.