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Jordan Martinook

12 goals, 797 games, and the letter on his jersey is the point.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2014-15	ARI	8	0	1	1	-3	0	0	0	0	8	0.0	11:42
2015-16	ARI	81	9	15	24	-9	18	0	1	2	109	8.3	15:11
2016-17	ARI	77	11	14	25	-8	40	1	1	2	109	10.1	15:41
2017-18	ARI	81	6	9	15	-24	45	0	0	1	112	5.4	14:01
2018-19	CAR	82	15	10	25	+1	38	0	1	5	146	10.3	14:29
2019-20	CAR	45	2	11	13	-2	22	0	0	1	44	4.5	11:16
2020-21	CAR	44	4	9	13	-3	25	0	0	1	62	6.5	12:45
2021-22	CAR	59	6	9	15	+1	22	0	0	2	77	7.8	11:12
2022-23	CAR	82	13	21	34	+7	61	0	1	3	162	8.0	15:38
2023-24	CAR	82	14	18	32	-1	36	0	1	1	148	9.5	14:39
2024-25	CAR	79	15	21	36	+16	18	0	0	3	112	13.4	15:18
2025-26	CAR	77	12	17	29	+6	35	0	3	3	109	11.0	14:50
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	797	107	155	262	-19	360	1	8	24	1198	8.9	14:19

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

12 goals and 17 assists in 77 games — 29 points, plus-6, at 14:50 a night. 7 points in his last 10 games.

The Finesse Game

Limited and honestly deployed. 189 unblocked attempts from a median of 29 feet with 34 per cent inside 20, and 12 goals. 107 goals in 797 career games.

He is not going to create anything. He is going to get the puck deep, chase it down, and give it to somebody who can.

The Physical Game

6-1, 208, and it is what he is for. He forechecks with genuine violence, finishes every check, and kills penalties on the best unit in the league. 35 penalty minutes.

At 34 he is still doing all of it, which is the part that surprises.

The Intangibles

54.3 per cent of the expected goals, 84th percentile, and 59.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 98th, across 959 minutes.

The goals went 44-43, barely level, while the expected goals went 43.0 to 36.3 in his favour. A 6-goal swing the wrong way, in the hardest minutes, and none of it is visible in anything he did.

He is a 12-year veteran, an alternate captain, and precisely the kind of player a possession team needs when the ice tightens in the spring. This is a page where the scouting read matters more than the arithmetic, and it says he is worth more in May than in November.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 959 minutes

Expected goals: 54.3%; 84th pct
Shot attempts: 59.8%; 98th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 43 against. Expected: 43.0 and 36.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

44th

Numbers

84th

The numbers rank him 40 points above where the report does. 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 — 71 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 · 77 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 74th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.09 a game
Distance: 2.27 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.4 mph; 47th 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 4 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 959 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: CAR took 55.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.3% — 1.4 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 959 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jordan Staal	53.5%	57.9%	52.6%
Jalen Chatfield	49.1%	57.6%	53.2%
Sean Walker	58.8%	51.2%	56.0%

53.5% together, 57.9% for him apart and 52.6% for Staal apart. He was better away from Staal, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Staal.

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

189 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 33 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.