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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Joshua Mahura

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Joshua Mahura

Seattle Kraken Defense #28

278 games, plus 8, and the 1st percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2018-19ANA1714504000205.014:18
2019-20ANA11134-32000119.116:14
2020-21ANA1313404000147.115:54
2021-22ANA38347-1412000368.314:04
2022-23FLA8241216+1748001785.114:02
2023-24FLA30099-220000250.012:36
2024-25SEA64099+520000580.013:45
2025-26SEA23123+816001156.715:40
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—278114657+111260022574.314:09

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

1 goal and 2 assists in 23 games — 3 points, plus-8, at 15:40 a night with 16 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Minimal. 27 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet, 74 per cent from beyond 40, 1 goal.

57 points in 278 career games, 46 of them assists. 2 assists in 23 games is the honest version of a third-pair defenceman who moves the puck adequately and creates nothing.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 193, and light. 16 penalty minutes in 23 games is a higher rate than the size supports.

He skates well, closes gaps, and loses net-front battles. The mobility is the reason he has stayed in the league for 8 seasons without ever holding a full-time job.

The Intangibles

43.9 per cent of the expected goals, 10th percentile, and 40.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 1st percentile, across 323 minutes.

The plus-8 on top of that is one of the more misleading numbers in this edition — 323 minutes is a small sample, the chances underneath were 9.9 to 12.6 against, and Seattle’s goaltending beat its expected total by 16 and a half goals.

2 points in his last 10. He is 28, a third-round pick, and the seventh defenceman. Plus-8 in 23 games is exactly the sort of figure this book exists to take apart.

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

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.

  • hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best

    41% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 10th percentile among defencemen

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 323 minutes

Expected goals
43.9%
10th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
40.4%
1st pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 14 for, 8 against. Expected: 9.9 and 12.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
8th
Numbers
10th

The two rank him within 2 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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, 2025-26 · 23 games

Top speed
21.4 mph
40th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.65 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.15 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
90.1 mph
47th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 88.9

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.

Recent form

Last 12 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

2

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 1 assists, 11 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 323 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, 2025-26

The club
SEA took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.9% — 2.1 below the club he did it on.
The role
323 minutes at five-on-five — 7th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Jamieson Oleksiak38.9%47.9%47.7%
Shane Wright39.1%45.9%51.3%
Jordan Eberle45.5%43.3%48.4%

38.9% together, 47.9% for him apart and 47.7% for Oleksiak apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

27 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 74% from beyond forty.