Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Jonny Brodzinski

New York Rangers Center

A fifth-round pick's eighth season, 158 games, and 36 points in all of them.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2016-17LAK6022+22000170.012:17
2017-18LAK35426+46001537.59:30
2018-19LAK13213020001711.89:55
2019-20SJS30110000050.07:24
2020-21NYR510104000714.311:20
2021-22NYR22112+110000342.910:51
2022-23NYR17112+38000273.79:19
2023-24NYR5761319-38102896.711:08
2024-25 so far
Career158152136+7401032496.010:25

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

57 games, 6 goals and 13 assists for 19 points, 1 on the power play, 8 penalty minutes, 11:08 a night and minus-3. He took 48.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 593 minutes, the 41st percentile, and his ice went 23-27 against an expectation of 20.73-22.10.

Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and five more conceded than they called for. Nineteen points in fifty-seven games at eleven minutes a night is the best season of a long, patient career.

The Finesse Game

122 attempts at a median of 35 feet with 33 per cent from beyond 40, 89 on goal, converted at 6.7 per cent, which is his career rate almost exactly.

21 career assists in 158 games. He shoots from further out than a fourth-line forward should and the conversion says why it does not work. Thirteen assists in fifty-seven games is the encouraging half.

The Physical Game

He is 6-0 and 206 and does not initiate.

40 career penalty minutes in 158 games is a very low rate. He does not forecheck by force and does not win many walls; he takes the defensive-zone draw and blocks shots.

The Intangibles

A fifth-round pick in 2013 by Los Angeles, out of Ham Lake, Minnesota, three years at St. Cloud State, eight seasons across three organisations, and 36 points in 158 games.

He is 31 and has spent most of eight professional seasons in the American league. Fifty-seven games on the Presidents’ Trophy winner is the reward for it.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 593 minutes

Expected goals
48.4%
41st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.1%
48th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 27 against. Expected: 20.7 and 22.1.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
31st
Numbers
41st

The two rank him within 10 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 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 · 593 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
NYR took 50.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.4% — 1.7 below the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 593 minutes at five-on-five — 24th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Will Cuylle52.3%44.6%46.3%
Braden Schneider49.2%47.9%49.2%
K'Andre Miller46.4%49.3%48.6%

52.3% together, 44.6% for him apart and 46.3% for Cuylle 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

122 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 33% from beyond forty.