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Jordan Spence
Los Angeles Kings Defense
The only Australian-born player in this edition, and 29 assists in 101 games at 5-11.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | LAK | 24 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 4.9 | 19:45 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 14:00 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 71 | 2 | 22 | 24 | +5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 2.5 | 14:26 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 101 | 4 | 29 | 33 | +6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 127 | 3.1 | 15:40 |
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
71 games, 2 goals and 22 assists for 24 points, 1 on the power play, 12 penalty minutes, 14:26 a night and plus-5. He took 54.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 897 minutes, the 86th percentile, and his ice went 42-37 against an expectation of 40.44-33.28.
Two goals of finishing above expectation on his ice and four more conceded than the chances called for. An 86th-percentile chance share on a third pairing at 22, which is the most encouraging thing on the blue line after Doughty.
The Finesse Game
80 shots at a median of 55 feet with 75 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 2.5 per cent against a career 3.2.
29 career assists in 101 games. The shot from the line is ordinary and the whole of the value is the pass. He retrieves under pressure, turns away from the forechecker, and finds the outlet before he has been touched.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 188 and cannot hold a man out of the crease.
12 penalty minutes in 71 games is a very low rate. He does not defend with weight and he does not block many shots, and he is used for the puck rather than for the crease.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2019 out of Manly, Australia, three seasons, and 33 points in 101 games. He is the only Australian-born player in this edition.
He is 23 and has been kept to fourteen minutes a night by a club that is deep on the right side. The chance share says he is ready for more than he is getting.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.17 penalty minutes a game over 71, 4th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
59% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“He retrieves under pressure, turns away from the forechecker, and finds the outlet before he has been touched.”
“The shot from the line is ordinary and the whole of the value is the pass.”
“He is 5-11 and 188 and cannot hold a man out of the crease.”
“He does not defend with weight and he does not block many shots, and he is used for the puck rather than for the crease.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 897 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.9%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 55.8%
- 92nd 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: 42 for, 37 against. Expected: 40.4 and 33.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 56 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 — 65 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 · 71 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 65th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.62 a game
- Distance
- 2.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.2 mph
- 53rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 · 897 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
- LAK took 54.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.9% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 897 minutes at five-on-five — 48th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andreas Englund | 53.3% | 59.0% | 48.1% |
| Pierre-Luc Dubois | 54.0% | 55.3% | 53.0% |
| Alex Laferriere | 47.5% | 58.4% | 52.3% |
53.3% together, 59.0% for him apart and 48.1% for Englund apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Englund behind.
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
111 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 46 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.