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Morgan Barron
Winnipeg Jets Center
Six-four, two shorthanded goals, and the best chance share of any forward on a Presidents' Trophy club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | NYR | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33.3 | 13:41 |
| 2021-22 | NYR/WPG | 27 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 6.1 | 9:48 |
| 2022-23 | WPG | 70 | 8 | 13 | 21 | +4 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 112 | 7.1 | 13:15 |
| 2023-24 | WPG | 80 | 11 | 7 | 18 | +10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 94 | 11.7 | 10:30 |
| 2024-25 | WPG | 74 | 8 | 7 | 15 | +8 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 92 | 8.7 | 10:23 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 256 | 30 | 30 | 60 | +17 | 80 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 334 | 9.0 | 11:12 |
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
8 goals and 7 assists in 74 games — 15 points at 10:23 a night, plus-8, with 2 shorthanded goals and 16 penalty minutes on 92 shots.
54.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 94th percentile — the best mark on the roster. His ice went 19-14 against an expectation of 22.62-18.78, which is a fourth line that spent its shifts in the correct end and got more out of them than the chances predicted.
The Finesse Game
92 attempts in 74 games at a median of 21 feet with 47 per cent from inside 20, converting at 8.7 per cent.
7 assists. 60 points in 256 career games is the whole offensive record and it is not the job. He goes to the net and he retrieves pucks.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 220 and he forechecks with force. He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he is difficult to move.
16 penalty minutes in 74 games is a very low rate for a player of this size and role. He kills penalties, he scored 2 shorthanded goals, and he can be trusted with a lead.
The Intangibles
A sixth-round pick of the Rangers in 2017 — 174th overall — out of Cornell, and 256 games, most of it here.
He is 26. He took a skate blade to the face in a playoff game and returned in the same period, which is the single most-cited fact about him and is not the reason he plays ten minutes a night on a 116-point club.
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
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
30% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 4th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**6-4 and 220 and he forechecks with force.** He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he is difficult to move.”
“He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he is difficult to move.”
“He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he is difficult to move.”
“**He kills penalties, he scored 2 shorthanded goals, and he can be trusted with a lead.**”
“**He kills penalties, he scored 2 shorthanded goals, and he can be trusted with a lead.**”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 644 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.6%
- 88th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.4%
- 57th 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: 19 for, 14 against. Expected: 22.6 and 18.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 33 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 — 73 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 · 74 games
- Top speed
- 23.9 mph
- 99th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.27 a game
- Distance
- 1.68 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.5 mph
- 41st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 644 minutes at five-on-five
- Alex Iafallo53%
- Rasmus Kuparioff the roster44%
- David Gustafssonoff the roster31%
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 54.6% — 2.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 644 minutes at five-on-five — 24th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Iafallo | 53.8% | 55.8% | 57.8% |
| Rasmus Kupari | 56.2% | 53.5% | 41.2% |
| Dylan DeMelo | 60.8% | 50.5% | 52.1% |
53.8% together, 55.8% for him apart and 57.8% for Iafallo apart. Iafallo was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for 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
137 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.