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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.
48.6 per cent at five-on-five, the 39th 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.
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
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He hits everything, he forechecks with real violence, and he is very difficult to handle below the goal line.”
“He hits everything, he forechecks with real violence, and he is very difficult to handle below the goal line.”
“he is very difficult to handle below the goal line”
“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.”
“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 numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 946 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.6%
- 40th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.2%
- 13th 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: 34 for, 43 against. Expected: 41.9 and 44.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 20 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 637 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 23.6 mph
- 97th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 3.94 a game
- Distance
- 2.42 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.5 mph
- 63rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 946 minutes at five-on-five
- 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 48.6% — level with 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 | 51.4% | 43.3% | 52.9% |
| Christian Dvorak | 49.2% | 47.5% | 47.4% |
| Lane Hutson | 50.1% | 47.6% | 52.9% |
51.4% together, 43.3% for him apart and 52.9% for Gallagher apart. He was worse away from Gallagher, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Gallagher 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
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.