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Josh Anderson
Montreal Canadiens Right Wing
Nine goals in 78 games at 6-3 and 226, on the eleventh percentile of chances.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 535 | 131 | 92 | 223 | -34 | 461 | 11 | 4 | 24 | 1202 | 10.9 | 15:55 |
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
78 games, 9 goals and 11 assists for 20 points, 74 penalty minutes, 15:28 a night and minus-18. He took 43.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,041 minutes, the 11th percentile, and his ice went 36-46 against an expectation of 38.78-51.45.
Three goals of scoring that did not arrive and five fewer conceded than the chances called for. The 11th percentile is the worst chance share of any regular forward on the roster and the twenty points are the worst return.
The Finesse Game
218 attempts at a median of 22 feet with 44 per cent from inside 20, 141 of them on goal, converted at 6.4 per cent against a career 10.90.
92 career assists in 535 games. He gets to the right ice and cannot finish from it — nine goals on that shot chart is six or seven short of the rate he has produced for a decade. There is no playmaking to speak of.
The Physical Game
He hits as hard as anybody in the league at 6-3 and 226 and skates faster than a man that size has any right to.
461 career penalty minutes in 535 games is a real rate. He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, clears the crease, and will fight anybody who asks.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2012 out of Burlington, Ontario, ten seasons across two organisations, and 223 points in 535 games.
He is 30 and had by a distance the worst season of his career. Two years before it he scored 21 goals; the club is paying for that man and got this one.
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.
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He hits as hard as anybody in the league at 6-3 and 226 and skates faster than a man that size has any right to.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, clears the crease, and will fight anybody who asks.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, clears the crease, and will fight anybody who asks.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, clears the crease, and will fight anybody who asks.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, clears the crease, and will fight anybody who asks.”
“There is no playmaking to speak of.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,041 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43%
- 11th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.2%
- 9th 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: 36 for, 46 against. Expected: 38.8 and 51.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 24 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 66 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 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 23.3 mph
- 93rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 4.27 a game
- Distance
- 2.60 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.5 mph
- 79th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 · 1041 minutes at five-on-five
- Jake Evans52%
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
- MTL took 46.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.0% — 3.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,041 minutes at five-on-five — 64th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Evans | 46.3% | 39.6% | 43.6% |
| Mike Matheson | 43.2% | 42.9% | 44.9% |
| David Savard | 44.5% | 42.4% | 45.4% |
46.3% together, 39.6% for him apart and 43.6% for Evans apart. He was worse away from Evans, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Evans did.
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
218 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.