This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | ANA | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 17:12 |
| 2021-22 | ANA | 53 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -5 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 2.2 | 14:06 |
| 2022-23 | ANA | 78 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -29 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 3.7 | 19:21 |
| 2023-24 | TOR | 64 | 1 | 4 | 5 | +7 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 1.9 | 17:14 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 201 | 5 | 15 | 20 | -30 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 182 | 2.8 | 17:14 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
64 games, 1 goal and 4 assists, 56 penalty minutes, 17:14 a night and plus-7. He took 52.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 991 minutes, the 74th percentile, and his ice went 44-36 against an expectation of 39.86-35.64.
Four goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and level at the other end. Five points in 64 games and a plus-7 is exactly the season a third-pairing defenceman is signed to have.
The Finesse Game
70 attempts at a median of 55 feet with 74 per cent of them from beyond forty and 6 per cent from inside twenty, 45 of those on goal, converted at 1.9 per cent against a career 2.75 across 182 shots.
Five career goals and 15 assists in 201 games. There is no offence here and no attempt at any; the puck goes off the glass or to the far wall and a career 2.75 per cent across 182 shots is the whole of the shooting.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 210 and took 56 penalty minutes.
140 career penalty minutes in 201 games. He is large and plays entirely through contact — he clears the crease, finishes every check available, and fights when the club needs one.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, four seasons, and Toronto is his second organisation.
A career minus-30 in 201 games, almost all of it earned in Anaheim. He was undrafted, reached the league at 22, and has taken seventeen minutes a night for a club that finished tenth.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
38% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 7th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He is large and plays entirely through contact — he clears the crease, finishes every check available, and fights when the club needs one.”
“There is no offence here and no attempt at any; the puck goes off the glass or to the far wall and a career 2.75 per cent across 182 shots is the whole of the shooting.”
“He was undrafted, reached the league at 22, and has taken seventeen minutes a night for a club that finished tenth.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 991 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.8%
- 74th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.1%
- 64th 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: 44 for, 36 against. Expected: 39.9 and 35.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 27 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 652 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, 2023-24 · 64 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 83rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.75 a game
- Distance
- 2.30 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.7 mph
- 39th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 · 991 minutes at five-on-five
- Jake McCabe52%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- TOR took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.8% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 991 minutes at five-on-five — 56th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jake McCabe | 54.9% | 50.4% | 51.6% |
| Auston Matthews | 56.6% | 51.1% | 56.8% |
| William Nylander | 44.2% | 55.9% | 54.3% |
54.9% together, 50.4% for him apart and 51.6% for McCabe apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
70 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 74% from beyond forty.