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Mark Jankowski
Carolina Hurricanes Left Wing
12 goals in 60 games at 18.2 per cent, and a 58.5 per cent chance share from the thirteenth forward.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 414 | 68 | 56 | 124 | +7 | 128 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 475 | 14.3 | 12:22 |
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
12 goals and 5 assists in 60 games for 17 points, plus-4, on 12:34 a night.
58.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 98th percentile, in the smallest forward role on the roster. 62 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet at a median of 16, and 18.2 per cent conversion on 66 attempts — a small number that should not be projected forward.
The Finesse Game
Limited and well-directed. He does not carry the puck and does not create, and 5 assists in 60 games says so plainly.
What he does is go to the net and be ready, and on this club that is enough to produce 12 goals. The hands in tight are decent for a man of this size, which is the one skill the role requires.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 200, and lean rather than heavy. He is willing at the net front and on the forecheck without being a genuinely punishing player.
33 penalty minutes over 60 games. He plays a straightforward game and takes the penalties that come with going to the paint.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick who did not become one, six organisations, and a career spent on the edge of NHL rosters.
At 31 he is a thirteenth forward who can score 10 goals in a system that generates interior chances. That is a useful thing to have and a fragile one — his value is entirely the environment, and there is no version of him that produces this anywhere else.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 592 minutes
- Expected goals
- 58.5%
- 98th pct
- Shot attempts
- 56.6%
- 94th 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: 34 for, 29 against. Expected: 27.0 and 19.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 62 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 315 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with NSH · 434 minutes at five-on-five
- Luke Evangelista47%
- Thomas Novaknow PIT36%
- Colton Sissonsnow VGK26%
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
- CAR took 55.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 58.5% — 2.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 592 minutes at five-on-five — 22nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Evangelista | 61.1% | 57.1% | 48.5% |
| Thomas Novak | 63.2% | 56.6% | 51.3% |
| Luke Schenn | 59.5% | 58.1% | 48.3% |
61.1% together, 57.1% for him apart and 48.5% for Evangelista 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
98 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 62% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.