Justin Barron
Nashville Predators Defense
A first-round pick on his third club, and no goals in 52 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | COL/MTL | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7.7 | 17:11 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 39 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -2 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 10.0 | 16:18 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 48 | 7 | 6 | 13 | -3 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 11.7 | 18:38 |
| 2024-25 | MTL/NSH | 62 | 6 | 7 | 13 | -18 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 8.2 | 17:26 |
| 2025-26 | NSH | 52 | 0 | 9 | 9 | -1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0.0 | 14:15 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 208 | 18 | 34 | 52 | -27 | 76 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 217 | 8.3 | 16:41 |
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
No goals and 9 assists in 52 games, minus-1, at 14:15 a night with 17 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
50 unblocked attempts and none of them went in, from a median of 42 feet. 52 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 25th pick in 2020 because of it — and the first pass is adequate. 9 assists in 52 games is not what the pick assumed.
The Physical Game
6-2, 198, and he defends positionally. 17 penalty minutes in 52 games. He is not a physical presence and does not clear his own net front.
The Intangibles
48.6 per cent of the expected goals, 42nd percentile, and 51.0 per cent of the shot attempts, 67th, across 700 minutes — which on this blue line makes him one of the 2 least-bad regulars.
The goals went 25-29 against, and Nashville’s goaltending came in 8 goals worse than the chances predicted.
4 points in his last 10. 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 700 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.6%
- 43rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51%
- 67th 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: 25 for, 29 against. Expected: 27.9 and 29.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 37 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 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 · 52 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 46th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.85 a game
- Distance
- 2.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.7 mph
- 23rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
4
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 4 assists, 12 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 700 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Wilsby21%
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
- NSH took 47.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 700 minutes at five-on-five — 30th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filip Forsberg | 48.0% | 48.9% | 48.8% |
| Spencer Stastney | 52.7% | 46.9% | 48.5% |
| Jonathan Marchessault | 41.7% | 51.3% | 43.5% |
48.0% together, 48.9% for him apart and 48.8% for Forsberg 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
50 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 18% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 50% from beyond forty.