Centre · #10

Jacob Josefson

New Jersey Devils

Buffalo Sabres(traded during the season)

Age: 35
Shoots: Left
Height: 183 cm
Weight: 89 kg
Born: Stockholm, SWE
Draft: 2009, round 1, #20 (NJD)

Career · 2010–11 to 2017–18

Games: 315
Goals: 20
Points: 64
TOI per game: 12:43
xGF% (5v5): 48.7%
Goals above expected: −14.1

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Season by season

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


2010–11	NJD	28	3	7	10	+5	13:14	31	9.7%	3	2.9	58.0%
2011–12	NJD	41	2	7	9	+10	12:06	37	5.4%	0	3.3	55.0%
2012–13	NJD	22	1	2	3	−10	12:59	20	5.0%	0	2.6	47.2%
2013–14	NJD	27	1	2	3	0	10:08	21	4.8%	0	1.7	46.3%
2014–15	NJD	62	6	5	11	0	12:26	61	9.8%	2	6.5	50.5%
2015–16	NJD	58	4	10	14	−21	15:31	86	4.7%	11	9.1	49.3%
2016–17	NJD	38	1	9	10	−1	12:15	44	2.3%	1	4.6	46.5%
2017–18	BUF	39	2	2	4	−4	11:23	35	5.7%	0	3.3	36.0%
Total	2 teams	315	20	44	64	−21	12:43	335	6.0%	17	34.1	48.7%

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)

Player card

Model-based

How 2010–11 to 2017–18 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

23rd percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

1st line
2nd line
3rd line
4th line
Extra / AHL

Scoring

Extra / AHL

Goals /600.3011th pct
Assists /600.6631st pct
ixG /600.5120th pct
Goals above expected−14.15th pct

Play-driving

3rd line

xGF% (5v5)48.7%45th pct
CF% (5v5)48.9%47th pct
Relative xGF%−1.047th pct
Penalty diff /600.0343rd pct

Usage

3rd line

TOI per game12:4344th pct
PP time share17.8%51st pct
Offensive zone starts47.7%28th pct
Quality of competition23.4%27th pct

Percentiles among forwards 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

Faceoffs

How often Josefson wins the draw over 2010–11 to 2017–18, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1537+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

48.8%

1388–1458 · #132 of 194 regulars, 32nd percentile

Against an average centre

48.6%

Opponents won 49.9% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.1% against them.

Wins above average

−39

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

9.1

2,846 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

Offensive zone50.1% 379–378
Neutral zone49.8% 529–533
Defensive zone46.7% 480–547

By strength

Even strength48.8% 1142–1197
Power play51.9% 96–89
Shorthanded45.8% 143–169

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +8 after a win, −16 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Claude Giroux51.6% 32–30
Jordan Staal52.3% 23–21
John Tavares39.0% 16–25
Tyler Bozak37.5% 15–25
Brian Boyle44.7% 17–21
Frans Nielsen47.2% 17–19
Casey Cizikas44.4% 16–20
Tomas Plekanec51.4% 18–17

Season by season

Season	Draws	Win rate	Against average
2010–11	202	47.0%	47.1%
2011–12	354	51.1%	51.2%
2012–13	236	48.3%	48.1%
2013–14	168	49.4%	49.9%
2014–15	586	49.3%	49.3%
2015–16	667	48.4%	47.9%
2016–17	313	51.8%	51.7%
2017–18	320	44.1%	43.9%

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.

−14.1 goals above expected

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