Mark Jankowski

58 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, which is the highest share in this book.

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

2016-17	CGY	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	10:18
2017-18	CGY	72	17	8	25	-7	33	2	2	3	118	14.4	13:21
2018-19	CGY	79	14	18	32	+6	12	0	5	1	99	14.1	12:42
2019-20	CGY	56	5	2	7	-12	14	0	0	0	38	13.2	11:06
2020-21	PIT	45	4	7	11	+4	6	0	0	0	35	11.4	10:43
2021-22	BUF	19	2	3	5	+2	4	0	0	1	14	14.3	13:39
2022-23	NSH	50	7	5	12	-1	18	0	3	3	57	12.3	12:26
2023-24	NSH	32	7	8	15	+11	8	0	1	1	48	14.6	12:40
2024-25	NSH/CAR	60	12	5	17	+4	33	0	0	1	66	18.2	12:34
2025-26	CAR	68	11	10	21	+7	16	0	0	3	63	17.5	11:09
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	482	79	66	145	+14	144	2	11	13	538	14.7	12:12

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

11 goals and 10 assists in 68 games — 21 points, plus-7, at 11:09 a night. 5 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the most extreme in the edition. 58 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet with a median of 17 and only 10 per cent from beyond 40. Nobody covered here shoots from closer.

11 goals on 63 shots on goal is a very high conversion and that is exactly what standing in the blue paint produces. He is a 6-4 man who has worked out that his only route to scoring is to be unmovable in front of the net.

There is no playmaking to speak of. 10 assists in 68 games.

The Physical Game

6-4, 200, and light for the frame. 16 penalty minutes. He is not a punisher; he is a screen and a tip and a rebound, and the strength is enough to hold that ice against most defencemen.

The Intangibles

58.3 per cent of the expected goals, 98th percentile, in 680 fourth-line minutes on the best possession club in hockey. Take the club effect out and there is still a useful player here.

He is 31, a first-round pick in 2012 who took 8 years and 4 organisations to work out what he was. 145 points in 482 games is not a first-rounder’s career, and the last 2 seasons are the best version of him there has been.

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

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
67.0% of his attempts in the slot, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 680 minutes

Expected goals: 58.3%; 98th pct
Shot attempts: 58.7%; 97th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 25 for, 17 against. Expected: 30.3 and 21.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

15th

Numbers

98th

The numbers rank him 83 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 — 65 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 · 68 games

Top speed: 22.2 mph; 47th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.56 a game
Distance: 1.80 miles a game
Hardest shot: 79.9 mph; 20th 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 1 assists, 13 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 680 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, 2025-26

The club: CAR took 55.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 58.3% — 2.6 above the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 680 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Eric Robinson	61.4%	54.2%	47.0%
William Carrier	61.1%	56.2%	53.4%
Alexander Nikishin	59.6%	57.5%	53.4%

61.4% together, 54.2% for him apart and 47.0% for Robinson apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

106 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 58% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 10% from beyond forty.