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Jordan Eberle

Seattle Kraken Right Wing

1,060 games and 728 points, and 42 of the former last season after a pelvic injury cost him half the year.

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
2025-26 so far—————————————
Career—1060308420728-6026570347241712.717:33

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

9 goals and 17 assists in 42 games — 26 points at 16:16 a night, even on the year, on 66 shots. He missed half the season to a pelvic injury that required surgery.

49.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 46th percentile, across 511 minutes. His ice went 23-25 against an expectation of 21.40-21.92, which is a line that got what it deserved.

The Finesse Game

66 attempts at a median of 20 feet with 51 per cent from inside 20 and 8 per cent from beyond 40 — the least perimeter profile of any forward here. At 35 he is still shooting from the paint.

The hands and the timing are why he has lasted. 17 assists in 42 games is a point-per-two-games rate from a man who is no longer quick, and it comes entirely from knowing where the play is going.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 180 and among the lightest forwards on the roster. He does not forecheck with force, he does not win a battle on the wall, and he never has.

14 penalty minutes in 42 games. He takes what comes with playing in the slot at that weight and he answers none of it.

The Intangibles

Twenty-second overall in 2008 and 1,060 games and 728 points across three organisations, including the captaincy of this one.

He is 35 and coming off surgery. On a roster whose best years belong to men over 30, he is the oldest and the most decorated of them.

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
  • a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
  • he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

  • slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored

    66.7% of his attempts in the slot, 94th percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it

  • net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips

    “At 35 he is still shooting from the paint.”

  • playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes

    “17 assists in 42 games is a point-per-two-games rate from a man who is no longer quick, and it comes entirely from knowing where the play is going.”

  • wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line

    “He does not forecheck with force, he does not win a battle on the wall, and he never has.”

  • retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty

    “He takes what comes with playing in the slot at that weight and he answers none of it.”

  • leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it

    “He is 35 and coming off surgery.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 511 minutes

Expected goals
49.4%
48th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
46.1%
19th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 25 against. Expected: 21.4 and 21.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
55th
Numbers
48th

The two rank him within 7 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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, 2024-25 · 42 games

Top speed
21.7 mph
25th pct

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

Bursts over 20 mph
0.62 a game

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

Distance
2.58 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
77.0 mph
13th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.9

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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 511 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, 2024-25

The club
SEA took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.4% — 2.2 above the club he did it on.
The role
511 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Brandon Montour54.8%46.1%47.1%
Adam Larsson41.8%54.1%47.5%
Jared McCann51.9%48.1%47.4%

54.8% together, 46.1% for him apart and 47.1% for Montour 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

102 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.