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Jujhar Khaira

Twenty-seven games, three goals, and a career minus-44 from a 6-4 fourth-line winger.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2015-16	EDM	15	0	2	2	-2	13	0	0	0	14	0.0	10:21
2016-17	EDM	10	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	1	10	10.0	9:15
2017-18	EDM	69	11	10	21	-7	47	0	1	2	73	15.1	12:42
2018-19	EDM	60	3	15	18	-12	43	0	1	0	64	4.7	12:34
2019-20	EDM	64	6	4	10	-19	38	0	0	1	69	8.7	12:32
2020-21	EDM	40	3	8	11	-1	42	0	0	2	41	7.3	12:03
2021-22	CHI	27	3	0	3	-4	13	0	0	0	32	9.4	13:36
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	285	27	39	66	-44	198	0	2	6	303	8.9	12:23

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

3 goals and 0 assists in 27 games — 3 points at 13:36 a night, minus-4, with 13 penalty minutes.

45.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 315 minutes. His ice went 5-9 against an expectation of 9.46-11.33 — four fewer goals for than the chances promised and two fewer against.

Three hundred and fifteen minutes is below the 500 this book requires before it will rank a player, so no percentiles are quoted here.

The Finesse Game

Thirty-two shots and three goals in 27 games, from a median of 23 feet with 34 per cent from the slot. Three points in 27 games is a bottom-of-the-roster line and it is the shape of most of his career: 66 points in 285 games.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 212, and this is what the club is buying — a heavy fourth-line winger with 198 career penalty minutes who can take a shift in his own end.

21.0 mph is a low top speed and 2.14 miles a game is a low workload, both consistent with a large man playing thirteen minutes a night on a bad team.

A career minus-44 across 285 games. He has never played on a club where his line was ahead.

The Intangibles

Sixty-third overall in 2012 by Edmonton, third round, and 285 NHL games at 28.

Chicago has traded four of its top six forwards and is playing a season nobody expects it to win. He is the thirteenth forward on that team, and the job is to be heavy and available.

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
35% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 315 minutes

Expected goals: 45.5%; 20th pct
Shot attempts: 46.1%; 22nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 5 for, 9 against. Expected: 9.5 and 11.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

26th

Numbers

20th

The two rank him within 6 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 — 55 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 · 27 games

Top speed: 21.0 mph; 13th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.48 a game
Distance: 2.14 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.3 mph; 51st pct

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 · 315 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, 2021-22

The club: CHI took 45.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.5% — 0.1 above the club he did it on.
The role: 315 minutes at five-on-five — 9th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ryan Carpenter	48.4%	43.7%	44.6%
Connor Murphy	42.7%	47.4%	44.3%
Calvin de Haan	51.3%	43.5%	45.7%

48.4% together, 43.7% for him apart and 44.6% for Carpenter apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

38 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.