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Roman Josi

25:02 a night and the best chance share on the blue line at 35, shut down in March after 53 games, and a line that scored 25 goals on 42.9 expected.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	962	190	534	724	+59	399	65	1	35	2840	6.7	24:52

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

53 games, 9 goals and 29 assists for 38 points at 25:02 a night — the heaviest workload on the club and among the heaviest in the league — before he was shut down in March. 150 shots at 6 per cent. 18 penalty minutes. Minus-26.

A 51.1 per cent chance share is the best of any regular on this blue line, and the on-ice goals are the club’s season in miniature: 25 for against an expected 42.87, and 35 against an expected 41.05. His line conceded six fewer goals than it deserved to and scored eighteen fewer than it should have. On the evidence he was comfortably the best defenceman on the roster, and he was minus-26.

The Finesse Game

The skating is still the foundation and it is still very good — long strides, the blue line gained under control, pivots that do not cost him speed. At 35 the top gear has gone and the edges have not.

64 per cent of his shots came from beyond 40 feet at a median of 46, which is the current version of his game: he runs the breakout, joins the rush, and shoots from the point rather than the circle. 29 assists in 53 games is a rate that would have finished near 45 across a season.

The Physical Game

201 pounds and never a punishing defenceman. He defends by anticipation and stick position, does not clear a crease by force, and takes 18 penalty minutes in 53 games doing it.

Against a heavy forecheck the puck can be taken off him below his own goal line, and on a club with this little help that happened more than it used to.

The Intangibles

A Norris Trophy, a captaincy, and fourteen seasons in one uniform.

He is 35, he played 53 games, and he was shut down in March. The club’s next three years depend on a defenceman whose last season ended a month early, and there is no succession plan anywhere on the roster.

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
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

workhorse· carries the load at even strength
18:44 a game at five-on-five, 94th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
67% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 100th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
transitiona strength· carries it out; gains the line under control
“The skating is still the foundation and it is still very good — long strides, the blue line gained under control, pivots that do not cost him speed.”
punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“201 pounds and never a punishing defenceman.”
defends-with-reacha strength· takes the puck before the contact happens
“He defends by anticipation and stick position”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“does not clear a crease by force”
wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“Against a heavy forecheck the puck can be taken off him below his own goal line, and on a club with this little help that happened more than it used to.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“A Norris Trophy, a captaincy, and fourteen seasons in one uniform.”
edgesa strength· changes direction at speed; the forechecker commits and he is gone
“pivots that do not cost him speed”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 993 minutes

Expected goals: 50.9%; 62nd pct
Shot attempts: 54.8%; 91st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 37 for, 52 against. Expected: 43.5 and 42.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

76th

Numbers

62nd

The two rank him within 14 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 — 77 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 · 53 games

Top speed: 21.5 mph; 41st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.51 a game
Distance: 3.68 miles a game
Hardest shot: 97.8 mph; 90th 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 993 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: NSH took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.9% — 1.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: 993 minutes at five-on-five — 59th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Filip Forsberg	51.2%	50.6%	47.4%
Jonathan Marchessault	49.6%	51.6%	46.8%
Steven Stamkos	50.0%	51.4%	46.0%

51.2% together, 50.6% for him apart and 47.4% for Forsberg apart. Forsberg was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Forsberg 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

230 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 33 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 64% from beyond forty.