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Justin Faulk
St. Louis Blues Defense
Twenty-eight assists at 33 and 22:27 a night, on the only pairing here whose chances went the wrong way.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | CAR | 66 | 8 | 14 | 22 | -16 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 101 | 7.9 | 22:51 |
| 2012-13 | CAR | 38 | 5 | 10 | 15 | +1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 76 | 6.6 | 24:00 |
| 2013-14 | CAR | 76 | 5 | 27 | 32 | -9 | 37 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 152 | 3.3 | 23:25 |
| 2014-15 | CAR | 82 | 15 | 34 | 49 | -19 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 238 | 6.3 | 24:26 |
| 2015-16 | CAR | 64 | 16 | 21 | 37 | -22 | 27 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 184 | 8.7 | 24:03 |
| 2016-17 | CAR | 75 | 17 | 20 | 37 | -18 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 225 | 7.6 | 23:08 |
| 2017-18 | CAR | 76 | 8 | 23 | 31 | -26 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 211 | 3.8 | 22:16 |
| 2018-19 | CAR | 82 | 11 | 24 | 35 | +9 | 47 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 217 | 5.1 | 22:25 |
| 2019-20 | STL | 69 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -3 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 147 | 3.4 | 20:34 |
| 2020-21 | STL | 56 | 7 | 18 | 25 | +11 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 117 | 6.0 | 24:16 |
| 2021-22 | STL | 76 | 16 | 31 | 47 | +41 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 167 | 9.6 | 23:12 |
| 2022-23 | STL | 82 | 11 | 39 | 50 | -4 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 196 | 5.6 | 23:23 |
| 2023-24 | STL | 60 | 2 | 28 | 30 | -2 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 132 | 1.5 | 21:58 |
| 2024-25 | STL | 78 | 4 | 28 | 32 | -9 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 124 | 3.2 | 22:27 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 980 | 130 | 328 | 458 | -66 | 478 | 47 | 3 | 33 | 2287 | 5.7 | 22:60 |
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
4 goals and 28 assists in 78 games — 32 points at 22:27 a night, minus-9, with 30 penalty minutes on 124 shots.
47.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 30th percentile — the worst mark of any regular defenceman on the club. His ice went 37-40 against an expectation of 46.14-50.15, which says the chances were poor and the results were worse.
The Finesse Game
124 attempts at a median of 46 feet with 64 per cent from beyond 40, and 4 goals at a 3.2 per cent conversion — the lowest of his career by a distance from a man who has scored 130 in it.
28 assists is a good number for a defenceman playing this role, and the first pass under pressure is still quick and mostly right. He runs the second power-play unit.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 208 and he plays a hard game. He finishes checks, he blocks shots, and he defends the front of his own net.
30 penalty minutes in 78 games at twenty-two minutes a night is a moderate rate. He is not an agitator and a share of the total is the stick foul that follows losing a step, which at 33 happens more than it did.
The Intangibles
Thirty-seventh overall in 2010 and 980 games and 458 points across two organisations, with a Stanley Cup here in 2019.
He is 33, an alternate captain, and has played more than twenty-two minutes a night in eleven of his fourteen seasons.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He finishes checks, he blocks shots, and he defends the front of his own net.”
“He finishes checks, he blocks shots, and he defends the front of his own net.”
“He finishes checks, he blocks shots, and he defends the front of his own net.”
“He is not an agitator and a share of the total is the stick foul that follows losing a step, which at 33 happens more than it did.”
“**28 assists is a good number for a defenceman playing this role**, and the first pass under pressure is still quick and mostly right.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,390 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 34th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.2%
- 20th 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: 37 for, 40 against. Expected: 46.1 and 50.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 26 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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, 2024-25 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 73rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.65 a game
- Distance
- 3.10 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.1 mph
- 79th 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 89.7
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
2024-25 · 1390 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Suteroff the roster10%
- Scott Perunovichoff the roster8%
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
- STL took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 3.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,390 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Broberg | 50.8% | 43.8% | 55.6% |
| Brayden Schenn | 46.6% | 48.5% | 51.1% |
| Dylan Holloway | 48.4% | 47.7% | 57.8% |
50.8% together, 43.8% for him apart and 55.6% for Broberg apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Broberg and did not follow him.
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
179 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 44 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 64% from beyond forty.