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Defence · #44

Jason Demers

San Jose Sharks Dallas Stars Florida Panthers Arizona Coyotes Edmonton Oilers(traded during the season)
Age
38
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Dorval, CAN
Draft
2008, round 7, #186 (SJS)

Career · 13 seasons

Games
700
Goals
45
Points
214
TOI per game
19:10
xGF% (5v5)
51.4%
Goals above expected
−4.7

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2009–10SJS5141721+515:26527.7%103.6–
2010–11SJS7522224+1919:301051.9%65.458.8%
2011–12SJS574913−816:51735.5%53.948.3%
2012–13SJS22123−418:38273.7%01.144.9%
2013–14SJS7552934+1419:291054.8%96.157.7%
2014–15SJS20033−618:11200.0%01.043.6%
2014–15DAL6151722+319:26796.3%54.657.5%
2014–15All teams8152025−319:08995.1%55.654.2%
2015–16DAL6271623+1620:52947.4%56.254.1%
2016–17FLA8191928−1419:37989.2%57.745.8%
2017–18ARI6961420−421:08956.3%34.850.5%
2018–19ARI35268+920:00395.1%11.545.2%
2019–20ARI5001111+520:30530.0%02.049.0%
2020–21ARI41044−417:14440.0%01.745.6%
After a break: 2022–23EDM1000−110:4410.0%00.026.8%
Total5 teams70045169214+3019:108855.1%4949.751.4%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.81100200300400500600700
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Player card

Model-based

How 13 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

85th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.2064th pct
  • Assists /600.7671st pct
  • ixG /600.2270th pct
  • Shots /603.9649th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)51.4%77th pct
  • CF% (5v5)52.1%86th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.452nd pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2570th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game19:1065th pct
  • PP time share26.0%71st pct
  • PK time share34.3%65th pct
  • Quality of competition24.5%69th pct

Percentiles among defencemen with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Anton StralmanCBJ/NYR/TBL/FLA0.93
  2. Mattias EkholmNSH/EDM0.91
  3. Hampus LindholmANA0.89
  4. Slava VoynovLAK0.89
  5. Matt NiskanenDAL/PIT/WSH/PHI0.84
  6. Devon ToewsNYI/COL0.84

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−4.7 goals above expected

01020304050100200300400500600700Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−200+20+40+60

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed31.1 km/h2nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot114.6 km/h2nd pct
  • Distance skated2 km1st pct
  • Offensive-zone time32.3%0th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian defencemanMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

31.1 km/h0th pct

2022–23 only

303234363822–232022–23: 31.1 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.00th pct

2022–23 only

00.511.522.522–232022–23: 0.0, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

13.7 km65th pct

2022–23 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.222–232022–23: 13.7 km, 65th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

114.6 km/h0th pct

2022–23 only

10012014016018022–232022–23: 114.6 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

32.3%0th pct

2022–23 only

30%35%40%45%22–232022–23: 32.3%, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)