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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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Jordan Eberle

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Jordan Eberle

Seattle Kraken Right Wing #7

1,140 games, and 55 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2010-11EDM69182543-122242515811.417:41
2011-12EDM78344276+410100418018.917:36
2012-13EDM48162137-41630313312.019:00
2013-14EDM80283765-111871420014.019:33
2014-15EDM81243963-162460218313.119:03
2015-16EDM69252247-121470417314.417:51
2016-17EDM82203151+3164002089.616:46
2017-18NYI81253459+52130718313.716:04
2018-19NYI78191837-61770516011.916:32
2019-20NYI58162440+11240113611.817:49
2020-21NYI55161733+91610212812.516:45
2021-22SEA79212344-281440216412.817:57
2022-23SEA82204363+63430417711.316:41
2023-24SEA78172744+11760316810.117:27
2024-25SEA42917260141016613.616:16
2025-26SEA80262955+22840316815.518:29
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—1140334449783-5829374350258512.917:36

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

26 goals and 29 assists in 80 games — 55 points, plus-2, at 18:29 a night with 4 power-play goals. His 1,140th career game and his 783rd point.

He turned 36 in May.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is why a 36-year-old led this club in scoring. 55 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 18, with only 14 per cent from beyond 40.

He stopped shooting from the perimeter years ago and now scores almost entirely from the slot, which is what a finisher does when the first step goes. 26 goals from 264 tries.

334 goals and 449 assists across 16 seasons.

The Physical Game

5-11, 180, and never a physical player. 28 penalty minutes.

He gets to his ice by reading it early rather than by winning a battle for it, and at this age that is the only route left open.

The Intangibles

48.2 per cent of the expected goals, 39th percentile — which on a club that was outshot as badly as this one is among the better marks on the roster.

6 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals.

He is 36, the captain, and the last man standing from Seattle’s first season. On a team where 3 of the 5 busiest skaters finished at or below the 12th percentile in chance share, he is holding the line and producing while doing 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

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.

  • durable· was available

    80 of 82 games

    Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,164 minutes

Expected goals
48.2%
39th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48.3%
39th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 49 for, 36 against. Expected: 44.6 and 48.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
61st
Numbers
39th

The report ranks him 22 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 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, 2025-26 · 80 games

Top speed
21.7 mph
28th pct

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

Bursts over 20 mph
0.81 a game

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

Distance
2.95 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
82.4 mph
32nd 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 — 4 goals, 2 assists, 24 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1164 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
SEA took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.2% — 2.2 above the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 1,164 minutes at five-on-five — 78th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Matty Beniers48.8%43.5%37.9%
Vince Dunn50.8%46.5%42.5%
Adam Larsson48.3%48.1%43.3%

48.8% together, 43.5% for him apart and 37.9% for Beniers 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

264 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 26 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 55% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.