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Josh Norris
Ottawa Senators Center
A career 17.2 per cent shooter who has played 183 games in five seasons.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | OTT | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 17:55 |
| 2020-21 | OTT | 56 | 17 | 18 | 35 | -12 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 96 | 17.7 | 16:28 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 66 | 35 | 20 | 55 | -7 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 172 | 20.3 | 18:35 |
| 2022-23 | OTT | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 13.3 | 17:59 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 50 | 16 | 14 | 30 | -6 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 115 | 13.9 | 17:38 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 183 | 70 | 53 | 123 | -24 | 57 | 27 | 0 | 13 | 407 | 17.2 | 17:38 |
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
50 games, 16 goals and 14 assists for 30 points, 5 on the power play, 22 penalty minutes, 17:38 a night and minus-6, with 3 game-winners. He took 45.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 659 minutes, the 23rd percentile, and his ice went 26-35 against an expectation of 23.56-28.46.
Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and seven more conceded than they called for. Fifty games is the third-largest number he has played in a season.
The Finesse Game
152 attempts at a median of 28 feet with 38 per cent of them from inside twenty, 115 of those on goal, converted at 13.9 per cent against a career 17.2 across 407 shots.
A career 17.2 per cent is the highest rate on this roster by a distance and one of the highest in the league among men with four hundred career shots. He scores from the slot on the power play — 27 career power-play goals in 183 games — and 35 goals in 66 games in 2021-22 is what the shot is capable of when he is on the ice.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 196 and took 22 penalty minutes.
57 career penalty minutes in 183 games. He is not a physical centre and does not defend by contact; the 23rd percentile of chances at five-on-five is the part of his game that has never matched the shooting.
The Intangibles
Nineteenth overall in 2017 by San Jose, five seasons, 123 points in 183 games and a career minus-24.
Three games, then 56, then 66, then 8, then 50. The rate of scoring is a first-line centre’s and the number of games is not; nothing about the projection can be settled until that changes.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 659 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.3%
- 23rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.1%
- 48th 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: 26 for, 35 against. Expected: 23.6 and 28.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 23 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 437 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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
2023-24 · 659 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, 2023-24
- The club
- OTT took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.3% — 3.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 659 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brady Tkachuk | 49.4% | 38.6% | 57.6% |
| Drake Batherson | 43.4% | 46.8% | 50.1% |
| Jakob Chychrun | 40.3% | 48.6% | 49.0% |
49.4% together, 38.6% for him apart and 57.6% for Tkachuk apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Tkachuk 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
152 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.