Justin Barron
Nashville Predators Defense
A first-round pick on his third club, and no goals in fifty-two games.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 52 | 0 | 9 | 9 | -1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0.0 | 14:15 |
| Career | 208 | 18 | 34 | 52 | -27 | 76 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 217 | 8.3 | 16:41 |
Last Season
No goals and nine assists in 52 games, minus-one, at 14:15 a night with 17 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
Fifty unblocked attempts and none of them went in, from a median of 42 feet. Fifty-two points in 208 career games, and a season without a single goal from a defenceman drafted for his offence.
The skating is genuinely good — he was the twenty-fifth pick in 2020 because of it — and the first pass is adequate. Nine assists in 52 games is not what the pick assumed.
The Physical Game
Six foot two, 198, and he defends positionally. Seventeen penalty minutes in 52 games. He is not a physical presence and does not clear his own net front.
The Intangibles
Forty-eight point six per cent of the expected goals, 41st percentile, and 50.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 65th, across 700 minutes — which on this blue line makes him one of the two least-bad regulars.
The goals went 26-37 against, and Nashville’s goaltending came in eight goals worse than the chances predicted.
Four points in his last ten. He is 24, on his third organisation, and has had 208 games to show the offence the draft position promised. There is still time and there is no evidence yet.