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Jordan Harris
Columbus Blue Jackets Defense
Eighty-one per cent of his attempts from beyond forty feet, and eight goals in 131 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | MTL | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11.1 | 16:17 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 65 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -3 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 5.7 | 18:39 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 56 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -5 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 7.0 | 17:28 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 131 | 8 | 24 | 32 | -5 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 6.6 | 17:58 |
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
3 goals and 11 assists in 56 games for Montreal — 14 points at 17:28 a night, minus-5, on 43 shots at 6.98 per cent, and 22 penalty minutes.
47.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 866 minutes, the 37th percentile. His ice went 37-42 against an expectation of 34.96-38.08 — four goals conceded above expectation.
The Finesse Game
43 attempts at a median of 54 feet, with 81 per cent from beyond 40 and 2 per cent from inside 20. Eight goals in 131 NHL games.
11 assists. He moves the puck quickly and simply and he will carry it out when the pass is not there, and the skating is why he plays seventeen minutes. There is no shot to speak of.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 189 and light. He cannot clear his crease against a heavy forward and the defending is positional and stick-first.
22 penalty minutes in 56 games and 56 in 131 for his career. He does not retaliate and he does not take liberties.
The Intangibles
Seventy-first overall in 2018 by Montreal, four years at Northeastern, and 131 NHL games at 24.
He was traded here in the summer. A third-round pick who becomes a third-pairing NHL defenceman by 24 is a good outcome for the pick, and on a blue line that was 31st in the league at suppressing chances he is depth rather than an answer.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 866 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 37th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.4%
- 39th 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: 37 for, 42 against. Expected: 35.0 and 38.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 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 — 57 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 with MTL · 866 minutes at five-on-five
- Johnathan Kovacevicnow NJD31%
- Jayden Struble28%
- Arber Xhekaj13%
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
- MTL took 46.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 1.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 866 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnathan Kovacevic | 49.9% | 46.9% | 47.5% |
| Jayden Struble | 49.7% | 47.1% | 43.9% |
| Josh Anderson | 48.8% | 47.5% | 42.5% |
49.9% together, 46.9% for him apart and 47.5% for Kovacevic apart. He was worse away from Kovacevic, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Kovacevic did.
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
62 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 37 feet. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 81% from beyond forty.