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Tanner Jeannot

Boston Bruins Left Wing

13 points, 89 penalty minutes, and the most-discussed trade cost of the last five years.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21NSH15527+620102321.712:08
2021-22NSH81241741+213021512419.415:59
2022-23NSH/TBL7661218-71070011075.614:15
2023-24TBL557714-10751005911.912:01
2024-25LAK6776130890015612.511:01
2025-26 so far—————————————
Career—294494493-940332736913.313:28

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

7 goals and 6 assists in 67 games for 13 points, even, on 11:01 a night with Los Angeles.

56 shots in 67 games and 7 goals. The 24-goal season in Nashville four years ago is now clearly the outlier of a career: he has 30 goals in the four seasons since, combined.

The Finesse Game

Very little. The hands do not function at NHL speed with the puck on his stick, and 6 assists in 67 games is not a sample problem.

What offence there is comes from being at the net front when something arrives. 12.5 per cent shooting on 56 attempts is a decent rate on a tiny volume, and it will not scale.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 221, and this is the job and the reason four clubs have paid for it. He hits as hard as anybody in the league, he fights, and he is genuinely difficult to play against below the goal line.

89 penalty minutes in 67 games. On a club that needs its penalty kill to improve, that is a direct cost, and it comes with the player rather than as an accident.

The Intangibles

Undrafted, a 24-goal season that produced one of the largest trade prices in recent memory, and three clubs since who have each discovered what the season actually was.

Boston is buying toughness for a bottom six that had almost none after the deadline sales. That is a real need. The honest projection is 8 goals, 90 penalty minutes, and eleven minutes a night.

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.

  • 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.

  • playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes

    “The hands do not function at NHL speed with the puck on his stick, and 6 assists in 67 games is not a sample problem.”

  • net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips

    “What offence there is comes from being at the net front when something arrives.”

  • punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally

    “He hits as hard as anybody in the league, he fights, and he is genuinely difficult to play against below the goal line.”

  • nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point

    “he is genuinely difficult to play against below the goal line”

  • undrafteda strength· arrived without a pick attached

    “Undrafted, a 24-goal season that produced one of the largest trade prices in recent memory, and three clubs since who have each discovered what the season actually was.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 729 minutes

Expected goals
50.5%
58th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
50.2%
55th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 24 for, 24 against. Expected: 25.0 and 24.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
30th
Numbers
58th

The numbers rank him 28 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 637 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, 2024-25 · 67 games

Top speed
22.5 mph
61st pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
0.88 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.77 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
92.1 mph
89th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.9

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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with LAK · 729 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
LAK took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.5% — 3.5 below the club he did it on.
The role
Fourth line, 729 minutes at five-on-five — 30th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Trevor Lewis47.9%51.8%42.1%
Joel Edmundson42.3%55.1%50.8%
Jordan Spence57.2%47.5%56.3%

47.9% together, 51.8% for him apart and 42.1% for Lewis apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Lewis behind.

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

97 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 57% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.