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Logan Stanley

Winnipeg Jets Defense

Six-foot-seven, 231 pounds, and 78 penalty minutes — the most on the club.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21WPG37134+1326000631.613:13
2021-22WPG5811213+144001801.315:39
2022-23WPG19123-121000119.113:43
2023-24WPG25112+436000293.513:46
2024-25WPG6311314+978000492.015:35
2025-26 so far—————————————
Career—20253136+262050012322.214:46

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

1 goal and 13 assists in 63 games — 14 points at 15:35 a night, plus-9, with 78 penalty minutes, the most on the club.

49.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 46th percentile. His ice went 28-19 against an expectation of 29.82-30.37 — ten goals better than expected for and three fewer conceded, which on a third pairing is mostly the crease behind it.

The Finesse Game

49 attempts in 63 games at a median of 58 feet with 85 per cent from beyond 40 and 5 per cent from inside 20, and 1 goal. 5 goals in 202 career games.

13 assists is a career high. The first pass is the safe one and under pressure the exits stop — the feet are the limitation and always have been.

The Physical Game

6-7 and 231 and among the largest players in the league. He clears the front of his own net by force, he defends the rush with reach almost nobody gets around, and he finishes checks that hurt.

78 penalty minutes in 63 games is the highest total on this roster. A share of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step, and a share of it is deliberate.

The Intangibles

Eighteenth overall in 2016 — a pick that was widely criticised the moment it was made — and 202 games and 36 points across five seasons, all of it here.

He is 27. He is a third-pairing defenceman who is 6-7, which in the playoffs is a specific and genuine asset, and he was a first-round pick, which it does not repay.

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.

  • perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in

    86.6% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 98th percentile among defencemen

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

  • hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best

    39% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 9th percentile among defencemen

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

  • punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally

    “**6-7 and 231 and among the largest players in the league.** He clears the front of his own net by force, he defends the rush with reach almost nobody gets around, and he finishes checks that hurt.”

  • clears-the-creasea strength· moves grown men off the front of his net

    “He clears the front of his own net by force, he defends the rush with reach almost nobody gets around, and he finishes checks that hurt.”

  • defends-with-reacha strength· takes the puck before the contact happens

    “He clears the front of his own net by force, he defends the rush with reach almost nobody gets around, and he finishes checks that hurt.”

  • fouls-when-beatenhe lacks it· the stick foul that follows losing a step

    “A share of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step, and a share of it is deliberate.”

  • takes-libertiesa strength· crosses the line and knows where it is

    “A share of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step, and a share of it is deliberate.”

  • transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control

    “**The first pass is the safe one and under pressure the exits stop** — the feet are the limitation and always have been.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 853 minutes

Expected goals
49.5%
48th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
46.9%
24th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 28 for, 19 against. Expected: 29.8 and 30.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
9th
Numbers
48th

The numbers rank him 39 points above where the report does. 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 — 63 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 · 63 games

Top speed
20.9 mph
22nd pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.16 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.22 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
95.5 mph
81st pct

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 · 853 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, 2024-25

The club
WPG took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.5% — 2.3 below the club he did it on.
The role
Third pair, 853 minutes at five-on-five — 41st percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Colin Miller52.4%47.3%53.0%
Cole Perfetti55.5%47.0%52.5%
Mark Scheifele42.1%52.6%52.4%

52.4% together, 47.3% for him apart and 53.0% for Miller apart. He was worse away from Miller, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Miller 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

82 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 41 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 85% from beyond forty.