Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Noah Juulsen

Philadelphia Flyers Defense

No points in 35 games and 21 penalty minutes, from a first-round pick who is now a seventh defenceman.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2017-18MTL23123+14000333.019:25
2018-19MTL21145+56000224.517:07
2020-21FLA4000-3000050.011:58
2021-22VAN8022-4000060.014:41
2022-23VAN12000+1600050.014:58
2023-24VAN54167-122000303.314:54
2024-25VAN35000-1221000260.016:17
2025-26 so far
Career15731417-13590001272.416:05

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

No goals and no assists in 35 games for Vancouver — 21 penalty minutes at 16:17 a night, minus-12.

Thirty-five games without a point at sixteen minutes a night is a rare line and it is not a misprint. 26 shot attempts in 35 games says the club was not asking for anything on that side of the puck.

The Finesse Game

26 attempts and no goals. There is nothing here: 17 points in 157 career NHL games.

The first pass is the whole puck game and it is adequate rather than good. Under a forecheck he chips it out rather than making a play, which is a legitimate choice and it is the only one he has.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 201 and this is the reason he is employed. He blocks shots, he clears the front of his own net, and he will fight.

21 penalty minutes in 35 games is a high rate. He plays with a hard edge and a share of it is deliberate.

The Intangibles

Twenty-sixth overall in 2015, and a career derailed at 21 by a puck to the face that cost him most of two seasons and required multiple surgeries.

157 games in seven seasons across four organisations. He is 28 and Philadelphia signed him in the summer as depth on a blue line that had two men under 190 pounds in its top four.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 483 minutes

Expected goals
44.9%
14th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
45.2%
12th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 14 against. Expected: 15.3 and 18.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
7th
Numbers
14th

The two rank him within 7 points of one another. 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.

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 — 62 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 VAN · 483 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, 2024-25

The club
VAN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.9% — 4.2 below the club he did it on.
The role
Third pair, 483 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Carson Soucy43.3%48.5%46.6%
Conor Garland43.5%45.5%54.8%
Jake DeBrusk49.9%43.3%47.3%

43.3% together, 48.5% for him apart and 46.6% for Soucy 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

35 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 0 of them goals. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.