Josh Anderson

6-3, 226 pounds, and one of the fastest players on the team, which somehow keeps adding up to 14 goals.

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

2014-15	CBJ	6	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	0	10	0.0	13:27
2015-16	CBJ	12	1	3	4	0	2	0	0	0	11	9.1	10:42
2016-17	CBJ	78	17	12	29	+12	89	0	0	3	119	14.3	12:01
2017-18	CBJ	63	19	11	30	-1	42	1	0	5	188	10.1	18:02
2018-19	CBJ	82	27	20	47	+25	60	3	2	5	230	11.7	17:01
2019-20	CBJ	26	1	3	4	-8	17	0	0	0	63	1.6	16:04
2020-21	MTL	52	17	7	24	-10	38	1	1	5	125	13.6	16:25
2021-22	MTL	69	19	13	32	-25	65	2	0	1	151	12.6	17:14
2022-23	MTL	69	21	11	32	-8	72	4	1	5	164	12.8	16:58
2023-24	MTL	78	9	11	20	-18	74	0	0	0	141	6.4	15:28
2024-25	MTL	81	15	12	27	-2	90	0	1	1	109	13.8	14:19
2025-26	MTL	72	14	9	23	-4	90	0	2	1	89	15.7	14:01
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	688	160	113	273	-40	641	11	7	26	1400	11.4	15:32

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

14 goals and 23 points in 72 games, minus-4, on 14 minutes a night with 90 penalty minutes. That is roughly what he has produced for 4 straight seasons.

The Physical Game

The most physically imposing forward on the roster and it is not close. He is enormous, genuinely fast, and he finishes checks at a speed that changes games. He forechecks with real violence, draws penalties, and is the player opponents look for before they touch the puck.

90 penalty minutes is high; a share of them are the frustration kind.

The Finesse Game

The gap between the tools and the production is the story of his career. He can beat a defenceman wide with pure speed and then cannot finish the play — the hands go missing at the moment they are needed, and his shot from any distance is ordinary.

89 shots in 72 games is a low volume for a player who gets to the net as often as he does.

The Intangibles

There is a version of him that scored 27 goals in Columbus, and every season since has been an argument about whether it is recoverable. At 32, the answer is probably not.

What remains is a fast, heavy, honest fourth-line winger on a contract written for a scorer. He is useful in a playoff series and expensive in a regular season.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 827 minutes

Expected goals: 46.7%; 26th pct
Shot attempts: 47.9%; 35th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 29 for, 38 against. Expected: 31.3 and 35.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

26th

The report ranks him 47 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 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 · 72 games

Top speed: 23.3 mph; 92nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 3.57 a game
Distance: 2.27 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.5 mph; 67th 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 — 2 goals, 1 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 827 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: MTL took 49.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.7% — 3.1 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 827 minutes at five-on-five — 40th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jake Evans	47.4%	45.9%	49.6%
Mike Matheson	46.6%	46.7%	46.8%
Brendan Gallagher	47.8%	46.0%	51.4%

47.4% together, 45.9% for him apart and 49.6% for Evans apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

134 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.