Jordan Staal

1,400 games, 20 seasons, and he still shoots from 18 feet.

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

2006-07	PIT	81	29	13	42	+16	24	4	7	4	131	22.1	14:56
2007-08	PIT	82	12	16	28	-5	55	3	0	4	183	6.6	18:16
2008-09	PIT	82	22	27	49	+5	37	2	1	3	166	13.3	19:51
2009-10	PIT	82	21	28	49	+19	57	1	2	1	195	10.8	19:24
2010-11	PIT	42	11	19	30	+7	24	3	0	4	91	12.1	21:21
2011-12	PIT	62	25	25	50	+11	34	5	3	0	149	16.8	20:03
2012-13	CAR	48	10	21	31	-18	32	1	0	1	114	8.8	20:06
2013-14	CAR	82	15	25	40	+2	34	2	1	2	165	9.1	18:57
2014-15	CAR	46	6	18	24	-6	14	1	0	1	92	6.5	18:33
2015-16	CAR	82	20	28	48	+6	34	6	0	4	151	13.3	18:18
2016-17	CAR	75	16	29	45	-1	38	4	1	3	164	9.8	18:40
2017-18	CAR	79	19	27	46	-4	26	4	2	2	160	11.9	19:15
2018-19	CAR	50	11	17	28	+6	26	0	0	1	121	9.1	18:17
2019-20	CAR	68	8	19	27	+3	40	2	0	0	125	6.4	17:30
2020-21	CAR	53	16	22	38	+2	30	7	0	4	103	15.5	18:29
2021-22	CAR	78	17	19	36	+11	18	1	0	2	146	11.6	16:38
2022-23	CAR	81	17	17	34	+7	32	0	1	3	124	13.7	16:16
2023-24	CAR	80	10	20	30	-14	44	0	1	3	123	8.1	15:23
2024-25	CAR	75	13	23	36	+15	16	0	2	3	107	12.2	15:26
2025-26	CAR	75	20	16	36	+5	29	4	0	4	107	18.7	16:11
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1403	318	429	747	+67	644	50	21	49	2717	11.7	17:56

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

20 goals and 16 assists in 75 games — 36 points, plus-5, at 16:11 a night. His twentieth NHL season and his 1,403rd game. 8 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals.

The Finesse Game

20 goals at 37 years old, and the shot chart explains it: 51 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 18, with only 11 per cent from beyond 40.

He has no speed left and it does not matter, because he stopped needing it a decade ago. He arrives at the net late, he is 6-4 in a crowd, and he puts it in.

16 assists is what the playmaking is now.

The Physical Game

6-4, 220, and the body still works. 29 penalty minutes. He wins faceoffs, he protects pucks on the wall, and he plays the hardest defensive minutes on a club that leads the league in penalty killing.

The Intangibles

53.4 per cent of the expected goals, 79th percentile — the lowest of any Carolina regular forward, which is exactly what you would expect from the man taking every defensive-zone draw against every top line.

20 seasons, the 2nd overall pick in 2006, a Stanley Cup as a teenager, and a career spent doing the work that does not appear in a highlight package. He is 38 in September.

There is no decline visible in the results. When it comes it will come quickly, and the club has no obvious replacement for what he does.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 957 minutes

Expected goals: 53.4%; 79th pct
Shot attempts: 59.1%; 98th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 39 for, 41 against. Expected: 42.3 and 36.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

79th

The two rank him within 6 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 — 76 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 · 75 games

Top speed: 23.1 mph; 87th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.00 a game
Distance: 2.56 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.4 mph; 73rd 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 — 4 goals, 4 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 957 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 53.4% — 2.3 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 957 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jordan Martinook	53.5%	52.6%	57.9%
Sean Walker	57.3%	50.6%	56.5%
Nikolaj Ehlers	56.0%	51.8%	56.6%

53.5% together, 52.6% for him apart and 57.9% for Martinook apart. Martinook was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

181 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.