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Josh Anderson
Montreal Canadiens Right Wing
27 points, 90 penalty minutes, and a 6-3 winger on a contract that runs to 2027.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 616 | 146 | 104 | 250 | -36 | 551 | 11 | 5 | 25 | 1311 | 11.1 | 15:42 |
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
15 goals and 12 assists in 81 games for 27 points, minus-2, on 14:19 a night with 90 penalty minutes and a shorthanded goal.
49 per cent at five-on-five, the 41st percentile. 109 shots and 15 goals at 13.8 per cent, with 44 per cent of the attempts from inside 20 feet.
The Finesse Game
Limited and it always has been. The hands do not function at the speed the legs move, which has been the description of his whole career, and 12 assists in 81 games is not a slump.
15 goals from close range is roughly the ceiling. He gets to the net because he is fast and large, and what happens when he arrives is unpredictable.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 226, and among the more genuinely frightening forwards in the league at full speed. He hits everything, he forechecks with real violence, and he is very difficult to handle below the goal line.
90 penalty minutes over 81 games is a high total on a club whose penalty kill finished 29th while taking the most shorthanded minutes in the league. That is a measurable cost.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick, two organisations, and a large contract signed on the strength of a 27-goal season six years ago.
At 31 the projection is 25 points and a great deal of physical presence. The contract is one of the more awkward on the roster and the player is genuinely useful in a role two-thirds this size.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 946 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49%
- 41st pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.8%
- 15th 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: 48 for, 41 against. Expected: 42.0 and 43.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 946 minutes at five-on-five
- Christian Dvoraknow PHI65%
- Jake Evans20%
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
- MTL took 48.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.0% — 0.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 946 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan Gallagher | 50.9% | 45.3% | 54.5% |
| Christian Dvorak | 49.2% | 48.6% | 48.1% |
| Lane Hutson | 50.8% | 47.8% | 52.5% |
50.9% together, 45.3% for him apart and 54.5% for Gallagher apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Gallagher and did not follow 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
168 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.