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Joshua Brown
Arizona Coyotes Defense
Six-five, 9.58 hits per 60 at the 94th percentile, and 4 goals in 171 NHL games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | FLA | 37 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 3.6 | 13:18 |
| 2019-20 | FLA | 56 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +1 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 6.3 | 13:25 |
| 2020-21 | OTT | 26 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 14:08 |
| 2021-22 | OTT/BOS | 52 | 0 | 6 | 6 | -7 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 0.0 | 14:13 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 171 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -10 | 134 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 129 | 3.1 | 13:45 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
With Ottawa, then Boston. 0 goals and 6 assists in 52 games — 6 points at 14:13 a night, minus-7, on 45 shots and 37 penalty minutes.
45.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 645 minutes, the 14th percentile among defencemen. His ice went 21-29 against an expectation of 23.91-28.75 — three goals of scoring missing, the goals against landing where the chances said.
Fourteen minutes a night at the 6th percentile of ice time. He is a sixth defenceman and has been used as one everywhere he has gone.
The Finesse Game
Forty-five attempts and no goals, at a shooting percentage of 0.0 — and 4 goals in 171 career games. 5 per cent of his shots came from inside the slot, the 8th percentile, at a median of 54 feet, which is the 89th percentile for distance: he shoots from the point and only from the point.
0.56 even-strength points per 60 is the 11th percentile. Two seconds a night of power play. There is nothing to say here.
The Physical Game
6-5 and 220, and 9.58 hits per 60 is the 94th percentile among defencemen. 5.03 blocks per 60 is the 75th percentile. He is enormous, he finishes everything, and he stands in front of shots — the entire case for the player.
The skating is the reason he is a sixth defenceman: 20.9 mph top speed is the 6th percentile, 0.4 bursts above 20 mph per 60 is the 6th, and 8.01 miles per sixty is the 8th. All three are at the bottom of the position. He wins any battle he arrives for and he arrives for fewer of them than anybody.
The Intangibles
One hundred and fifty-second overall in 2013 by Florida, and 171 games across Ottawa, Boston and now Arizona.
He is 28. The three lowest chance shares among the league qualified defencemen last season all belong to men who will dress here — Dysin Mayo, Patrik Nemeth and J.J. Moser — so a 6-5 right shot who blocks and hits is at least a different kind of problem — and he will play sixty games here because Arizona has nobody in front of him.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
“9.58 hits per 60 is the 94th percentile among defencemen”
“5.03 blocks per 60 is the 75th percentile”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 645 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.4%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47%
- 29th 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: 21 for, 29 against. Expected: 23.9 and 28.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 16 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 47 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, 2021-22 · 52 games
- Top speed
- 20.9 mph
- 25th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.10 a game
- Distance
- 1.90 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.7 mph
- 59th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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
2021-22 with OTT · 564 minutes at five-on-five
- Nick Holden15%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- BOS took 56.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.4% — 10.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 645 minutes at five-on-five — 27th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Brannstrom | 45.3% | 45.5% | 46.7% |
| Victor Mete | 41.1% | 47.0% | 46.5% |
| Alex Formenton | 48.4% | 44.3% | 46.2% |
45.3% together, 45.5% for him apart and 46.7% for Brannstrom apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
58 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 0 of them goals. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.