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Jordan Spence
Ottawa Senators Defense
Twenty-four assists and a plus-23 in Los Angeles from a 5-11 defenceman, traded to Ottawa in the summer.
| 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 | LAK | 79 | 4 | 24 | 28 | +23 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 4.7 | 16:47 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 180 | 8 | 53 | 61 | +29 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 213 | 3.8 | 16:10 |
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
4 goals and 24 assists in 79 games for Los Angeles — 28 points at 16:47 a night, plus-23, on 16 penalty minutes.
The plus-23 was among the best figures on a club that finished second in the league in goals against, so it is a fact about the Kings as much as about him. What it does establish is that he played a full season of third-pairing minutes on a good defensive team without hurting it.
The Finesse Game
86 attempts and 4 goals — the shot is not the point. 24 assists in 79 games from a third pairing is a real number, and it comes from the first pass.
He is quick, he retrieves the puck and moves it before the forecheck arrives, and he skates it out himself when the pass is not there. On a club whose exits are its problem below the top pair, that is the specific reason he was acquired.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 188 and among the smallest defencemen in the league. He does not clear a crease, he does not win a battle against a heavy forward, and he does not pretend otherwise.
16 penalty minutes in 79 games. He defends by getting to the puck first and by being difficult to line up, and when that fails he does not have a second answer.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2019, born in Australia and raised in Prince Edward Island, and 180 NHL games in across four seasons in Los Angeles.
Ottawa acquired him in the summer. He is 24, he has never played more than 17 minutes a night, and the club is betting that the puck-moving is worth the weight it is giving up on the third pair.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
84.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 93rd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He is quick, he retrieves the puck and moves it before the forecheck arrives, and he skates it out himself when the pass is not there.”
“**24 assists in 79 games from a third pairing is a real number**, and it comes from the first pass.”
“He does not clear a crease, he does not win a battle against a heavy forward, and he does not pretend otherwise.”
“He does not clear a crease, he does not win a battle against a heavy forward, and he does not pretend otherwise.”
“He defends by getting to the puck first and by being difficult to line up, and when that fails he does not have a second answer.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,132 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.5%
- 95th pct
- Shot attempts
- 56.4%
- 94th 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: 50 for, 27 against. Expected: 44.7 and 34.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 65 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 68th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.30 a game
- Distance
- 2.35 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.2 mph
- 74th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 with LAK · 1132 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
- LAK took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.5% — 2.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,132 minutes at five-on-five — 79th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Moverare | 59.1% | 55.3% | 51.0% |
| Kevin Fiala | 60.2% | 55.0% | 56.5% |
| Alex Laferriere | 60.3% | 54.8% | 54.9% |
59.1% together, 55.3% for him apart and 51.0% for Moverare 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
151 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 58 feet. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 85% from beyond forty.