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Josh Morrissey
Winnipeg Jets Defense
Fifty-nine assists and a plus-34, at twenty-four minutes a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | WPG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 15:54 |
| 2016-17 | WPG | 82 | 6 | 14 | 20 | +6 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 99 | 6.1 | 19:29 |
| 2017-18 | WPG | 81 | 7 | 19 | 26 | +15 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 6.9 | 20:27 |
| 2018-19 | WPG | 59 | 6 | 25 | 31 | +9 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 95 | 6.3 | 22:24 |
| 2019-20 | WPG | 65 | 5 | 26 | 31 | +1 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 4.2 | 22:46 |
| 2020-21 | WPG | 56 | 4 | 17 | 21 | -1 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 116 | 3.5 | 23:33 |
| 2021-22 | WPG | 79 | 12 | 25 | 37 | -3 | 66 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 173 | 6.9 | 23:40 |
| 2022-23 | WPG | 78 | 16 | 60 | 76 | +2 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 172 | 9.3 | 24:14 |
| 2023-24 | WPG | 81 | 10 | 59 | 69 | +34 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 196 | 5.1 | 24:11 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 582 | 66 | 245 | 311 | +63 | 299 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 1074 | 6.2 | 22:31 |
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
81 games, 10 goals and 59 assists for 69 points, 2 on the power play, 44 penalty minutes, 24:11 a night and plus-34, with 1 game-winner. He took 54.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,619 minutes, the 84th percentile, and his ice went 82-47 against an expectation of 76.67-64.19.
Five goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and seventeen goals of goaltending above them. Eighty-two goals for in 1,619 minutes is the largest total on this club and the plus-34 is the second-largest.
The Finesse Game
287 attempts at a median of 47 feet with 62 per cent of them from beyond forty and 7 per cent from inside twenty, 191 of those on goal, converted at 5.1 per cent against a career 6.15 across 1,074 shots.
245 career assists against 66 goals in 582 games. He carries the puck out of his own end rather than passing it out and walks the line until a lane appears; 287 attempts is the most of any defenceman on this club and 59 assists is what the volume returns.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 195 and took 44 penalty minutes.
299 career penalty minutes in 582 games. He is an ordinary size for a defenceman playing twenty-four minutes a night and does not defend by contact; the gap is closed with feet and the stick takes the puck rather than the man.
The Intangibles
Thirteenth overall in 2013 by Winnipeg, nine seasons, one organisation, and 311 points in 582 games.
A career plus-63 in 582 games. He is 29, he has had 76 and 69 points in the last two seasons after never passing 37 in the seven before them, and he has played his whole career for this club.
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
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
54.4% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 50.1% for his club in the minutes he sat: +4.3, 91st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:59 a game at five-on-five, 99th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
61% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 94th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“He carries the puck out of his own end rather than passing it out and walks the line until a lane appears; 287 attempts is the most of any defenceman on this club and 59 assists is what the volume returns.”
“He is an ordinary size for a defenceman playing twenty-four minutes a night and does not defend by contact; the gap is closed with feet and the stick takes the puck rather than the man.”
“A career plus-63 in 582 games.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,619 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.4%
- 84th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.8%
- 77th 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: 82 for, 47 against. Expected: 76.7 and 64.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 82 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 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 56th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.58 a game
- Distance
- 3.62 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.5 mph
- 74th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 · 1619 minutes at five-on-five
- Dylan DeMelo74%
- Neal Pionk11%
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
- WPG took 52.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.4% — 2.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,619 minutes at five-on-five — 100th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dylan DeMelo | 52.6% | 59.5% | 54.8% |
| Mark Scheifele | 54.6% | 54.3% | 43.8% |
| Kyle Connor | 51.3% | 56.0% | 45.3% |
52.6% together, 59.5% for him apart and 54.8% for DeMelo apart. He was better away from DeMelo, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost DeMelo.
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
287 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 28 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 62% from beyond forty.