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Jordan Harris

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.

47.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 866 minutes, the 35th percentile. His ice went 33-33 against an expectation of 33.89-37.29 — 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.

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.

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.

transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“**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.”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“**He cannot clear his crease against a heavy forward** and the defending is positional and stick-first.”
retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“22 penalty minutes in 56 games and 56 in 131 for his career. He does not retaliate and he does not take liberties.”
takes-libertieshe lacks it· crosses the line and knows where it is
“22 penalty minutes in 56 games and 56 in 131 for his career. He does not retaliate and he does not take liberties.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 866 minutes

Expected goals: 47.6%; 35th pct
Shot attempts: 48.5%; 41st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 33 for, 33 against. Expected: 33.9 and 37.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

8th

Numbers

35th

The numbers rank him 27 points above where the report does. 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. 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 652 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 56 games

Top speed: 21.9 mph; 58th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.75 a game
Distance: 2.52 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.0 mph; 19th pct

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

2023-24 with MTL · 866 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: MTL took 46.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 1.5 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	49.3%	46.8%	45.3%
Josh Anderson	49.0%	47.1%	41.3%
Jayden Struble	50.8%	46.4%	42.8%

49.3% together, 46.8% for him apart and 45.3% for Kovacevic apart. Kovacevic was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Kovacevic 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

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.