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Marcus Johansson

Nine hundred and eleven games, 483 points, and a career minus-65.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2010-11	WSH	69	13	14	27	+2	10	2	1	2	102	12.8	14:43
2011-12	WSH	80	14	32	46	-5	8	1	0	3	90	15.6	16:48
2012-13	WSH	34	6	16	22	+3	4	3	0	1	40	15.0	16:35
2013-14	WSH	80	8	36	44	-21	4	6	0	1	107	7.5	17:32
2014-15	WSH	82	20	27	47	+6	10	3	0	1	138	14.5	16:29
2015-16	WSH	74	17	29	46	+12	16	6	0	7	132	12.9	16:38
2016-17	WSH	82	24	34	58	+25	10	5	0	5	129	18.6	17:00
2017-18	NJD	29	5	9	14	-11	14	1	0	0	42	11.9	15:59
2018-19	NJD/BOS	58	13	17	30	-16	8	2	0	1	115	11.3	15:56
2019-20	BUF	60	9	21	30	-12	20	1	0	1	87	10.3	17:09
2020-21	MIN	36	6	8	14	-10	4	2	0	3	46	13.0	15:56
2021-22	SEA/WSH	69	9	20	29	-26	4	3	0	2	111	8.1	16:08
2022-23	WSH/MIN	80	19	27	46	+3	8	5	2	7	137	13.9	16:30
2023-24	MIN	78	11	19	30	-15	22	1	0	0	112	9.8	15:53
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	911	174	309	483	-65	142	41	3	34	1388	12.5	16:26

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 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

78 games, 11 goals and 19 assists for 30 points, 1 on the power play, 22 penalty minutes, 15:53 a night and minus-15. He took 52.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,045 minutes, the 72nd percentile, and his ice went 34-41 against an expectation of 40.04-36.04.

Six goals of scoring that did not arrive and five more conceded than the chances called for. A 72nd-percentile chance share that produced a minus-15, which is what happens when both ends go wrong at once.

The Finesse Game

169 attempts at a median of 29 feet with 31 per cent from inside 20, converted at 9.8 per cent against a career 12.54.

309 career assists in 911 games. The hands are still there and the finishing has gone; eleven goals on 112 shots is three short of his own career rate. He moves the puck early and does not hold it.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 203 and has never played like it.

22 penalty minutes in 78 games is a very low rate. He does not forecheck hard, does not win the wall, and is easy to move off a puck.

The Intangibles

Twenty-fourth overall in 2009 out of Landskrona, fourteen seasons across six organisations, and 483 points in 911 games at a career minus-65.

He is 34 and this is his second spell in Minnesota, as it is his second in Washington. Thirty points at fifteen minutes a night is a third-line total and that is where he now belongs.

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
transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“He moves the puck early and does not hold it.”
punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He is 6-1 and 203 and has never played like it.”
forechecks-aggressivelyhe lacks it· first man in, and on the puck
“He does not forecheck hard, does not win the wall, and is easy to move off a puck.”
wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“He does not forecheck hard, does not win the wall, and is easy to move off a puck.”
hard-to-movehe lacks it· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He does not forecheck hard, does not win the wall, and is easy to move off a puck.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,045 minutes

Expected goals: 52.6%; 72nd pct
Shot attempts: 50.4%; 58th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 34 for, 41 against. Expected: 40.0 and 36.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

24th

Numbers

72nd

The numbers rank him 48 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 652 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, 2023-24 · 78 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 80th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.38 a game
Distance: 2.56 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.6 mph; 49th pct

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

2023-24 · 1045 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, 2023-24

The club: MIN took 51.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.6% — 1.3 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,045 minutes at five-on-five — 65th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Brock Faber	50.0%	54.3%	50.7%
Jake Middleton	47.8%	55.6%	48.4%
Joel Eriksson Ek	50.5%	53.8%	56.8%

50.0% together, 54.3% for him apart and 50.7% for Faber apart. He was better away from Faber, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Faber.

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

169 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.