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Noah Juulsen
Colorado Avalanche Defense #47
A former first-round pick, 10 years on, playing a sheltered third pairing and doing it competently.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | MTL | 23 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 3.0 | 19:25 |
| 2018-19 | MTL | 21 | 1 | 4 | 5 | +5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4.5 | 17:07 |
| 2020-21 | FLA | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 11:58 |
| 2021-22 | VAN | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 14:41 |
| 2022-23 | VAN | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 14:58 |
| 2023-24 | VAN | 54 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 3.3 | 14:54 |
| 2024-25 | VAN | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0.0 | 16:17 |
| 2025-26 | PHI | 52 | 1 | 9 | 10 | +3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 3.9 | 13:49 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 209 | 4 | 23 | 27 | -10 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153 | 2.6 | 15:31 |
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
1 goal and 10 points in 52 games, plus-3, on under 14 minutes a night. Across 209 career games he has 27 points.
The Finesse Game
Almost none, and no pretence otherwise. 4 goals in 209 games, 26 shots in 52, and a first pass that is simple by instruction. He does not carry the puck and does not join the rush.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 201, and this is the reason he plays. He finishes checks, is willing in front of his own net, and plays with an edge — a genuinely useful seventh defenceman on a team that wants somebody heavy available.
The Intangibles
The 26th pick in 2015 and a career badly disrupted by facial injuries early on, which took years out of his development at exactly the wrong time.
At 29 the projection is settled: a depth defenceman who dresses when the club wants more size and does not embarrass himself when he does.
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.
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
58% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 647 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.9%
- 21st pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.5%
- 15th 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: 26 for, 26 against. Expected: 20.8 and 24.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 12 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
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 — 69 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 · 52 games
- Top speed
- 20.4 mph
- 14th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.10 a game
- Distance
- 2.06 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.1 mph
- 60th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
5
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 5 assists, 7 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with PHI · 647 minutes at five-on-five
- Nick Seeler36%
- Egor Zamulaoff the roster11%
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
- PHI took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.9% — 4.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 647 minutes at five-on-five — 26th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Seeler | 42.8% | 47.7% | 53.0% |
| Trevor Zegras | 50.5% | 43.7% | 54.3% |
| Emil Andrae | 48.7% | 44.8% | 53.2% |
42.8% together, 47.7% for him apart and 53.0% for Seeler apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
46 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 80% from beyond forty.