Roman Josi

1,030 games, 25 minutes a night, and a club sinking underneath him.

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

2011-12	NSH	52	5	11	16	+1	14	1	0	0	64	7.8	18:23
2012-13	NSH	48	5	13	18	-7	8	1	0	1	96	5.2	23:32
2013-14	NSH	72	13	27	40	-2	18	3	0	2	168	7.7	26:25
2014-15	NSH	81	15	40	55	+15	26	3	0	4	201	7.5	26:28
2015-16	NSH	81	14	47	61	-3	43	6	1	3	198	7.1	25:29
2016-17	NSH	72	12	37	49	+7	18	7	0	1	217	5.5	25:04
2017-18	NSH	75	14	39	53	+24	24	7	0	3	253	5.5	24:28
2018-19	NSH	82	15	41	56	+9	42	2	0	4	274	5.5	25:10
2019-20	NSH	69	16	49	65	+22	41	4	0	1	260	6.2	25:47
2020-21	NSH	48	8	25	33	-11	20	1	0	3	141	5.7	24:21
2021-22	NSH	80	23	73	96	+13	46	11	0	2	281	8.2	25:33
2022-23	NSH	67	18	41	59	+5	36	8	0	5	269	6.7	25:10
2023-24	NSH	82	23	62	85	+12	45	9	0	5	268	8.6	24:38
2024-25	NSH	53	9	29	38	-26	18	2	0	1	150	6.0	25:02
2025-26	NSH	68	13	42	55	-15	30	4	0	3	181	7.2	24:53
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1030	203	576	779	+44	429	69	1	38	3021	6.7	24:52

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

13 goals and 42 assists in 68 games — 55 points, minus-15, at 24:53 a night. 14 games missed. His 1,030th career game.

The Finesse Game

Still one of the great skating defencemen of his era. He carries the puck the length of the ice, he walks the line on the power play, and 42 assists in 68 games from the blue line is a first-pair rate at 36.

The shot is used properly: 250 unblocked attempts from a median of 45 feet, 13 goals, and he gets it through traffic as well as anybody.

The Physical Game

6-1, 201, and he defends with skating and stick rather than force. 30 penalty minutes in 68 games of the heaviest minutes on the club.

The decline that is visible is in the defending rather than the offence — he cannot recover from a mistake the way he could 5 years ago, and he is being asked to play 25 minutes on a team with no cover.

The Intangibles

48.2 per cent of the expected goals, 39th percentile, and 50.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 60th, against the other team’s best every night.

779 points, a Norris Trophy, and 18 seasons in one uniform for a club that has won one playoff round in the last 8 years.

8 points in his last 10. He is 36 and the ice time has not come down. Whether Nashville should still be asking this of him is the question the whole roster is really about.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,286 minutes

Expected goals: 48.2%; 39th pct
Shot attempts: 50.3%; 61st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 57 for, 64 against. Expected: 54.5 and 58.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

92nd

Numbers

39th

The report ranks him 53 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 81 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: 21.4 mph; 39th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.82 a game
Distance: 3.61 miles a game
Hardest shot: 96.7 mph; 87th 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 — 2 goals, 6 assists, 28 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1286 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: NSH took 47.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.2% — 0.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: 1,286 minutes at five-on-five — 87th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Brady Skjei	48.5%	48.0%	46.8%
Ryan O'Reilly	49.4%	47.6%	50.8%
Filip Forsberg	49.5%	47.6%	48.1%

48.5% together, 48.0% for him apart and 46.8% for Skjei apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

250 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 38 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 59% from beyond forty.