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Juraj Slafkovský
Montreal Canadiens Left Wing
6-3 and 225 pounds at 21, and 56 per cent of his shots taken from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | MTL | 39 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -13 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 9.5 | 12:13 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 82 | 20 | 30 | 50 | -19 | 55 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 152 | 13.2 | 17:56 |
| 2024-25 | MTL | 79 | 18 | 33 | 51 | +4 | 45 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 133 | 13.5 | 17:21 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 200 | 42 | 69 | 111 | -28 | 133 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 327 | 12.8 | 16:35 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
18 goals and 33 assists in 79 games for 51 points, plus-4, on 17:21 a night.
48.1 per cent at five-on-five, the 32nd percentile, with on-ice goals of 34-55 against an expected 45.8-49.3 — 12 goals missing at one end and 6 too many at the other. 56 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 17, the most interior profile on the club.
The Finesse Game
A power forward’s frame with a playmaker’s instincts, which is the unusual combination. 33 assists in 79 games is the more encouraging half — he holds the puck on the wall, waits, and finds the seam, and the hands work in traffic.
133 shots is a low volume for a top-six winger and 13.5 per cent conversion is a fair rate from those distances. The shot itself is ordinary and it is the reason a man who gets to the paint this often scored only 18.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 225 at 21, and he has learned to use it. He protects pucks below the goal line, wins the wall, and goes to the net front without being asked — none of which was reliable two seasons ago.
45 penalty minutes over 79 games. Three consecutive seasons above 75 games at this age and size is a good sign.
The Intangibles
The 1st overall pick in 2022, a difficult first season that produced a great deal of noise, and steady improvement since without ever looking like a franchise forward.
At 21 there is time and the shot chart is the reason for optimism — a man taking 56 per cent of his attempts from the paint will score more than 18 as the release improves. The projection is a 30-goal power forward and the club needs it to arrive.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,035 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.1%
- 33rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.8%
- 40th 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: 34 for, 55 against. Expected: 45.8 and 49.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 47 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 78 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
2024-25 · 1035 minutes at five-on-five
- Nick Suzuki75%
- Kirby Dach16%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- MTL took 48.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.1% — 0.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,035 minutes at five-on-five — 66th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Suzuki | 49.0% | 45.5% | 48.5% |
| Cole Caufield | 48.4% | 47.4% | 47.8% |
| Mike Matheson | 45.6% | 50.2% | 48.1% |
49.0% together, 45.5% for him apart and 48.5% for Suzuki apart. He was worse away from Suzuki, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Suzuki did.
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
222 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 56% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.