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Defence · #88

Jaycob Megna

Anaheim Ducks San Jose Sharks Seattle Kraken Chicago Blackhawks Florida Panthers Vegas Golden Knights(traded during the season)
Age
33
Shoots
Left
Height
198 cm
Weight
99 kg
Born
Plantation, USA
Draft
2012, round 7, #210 (ANA)

Career · 8 seasons

Games
197
Goals
4
Points
27
TOI per game
17:29
xGF% (5v5)
48.3%
Goals above expected
−2.6

Season by season

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

2016–17ANA1000+115:200–00.038.7%
2017–18ANA14011−415:4370.0%00.445.4%
2018–19ANA28134−114:32313.2%01.549.7%
After a break: 2021–22SJS44268−119:07405.0%01.249.5%
2022–23SJS4811112+619:03492.0%02.354.3%
2022–23SEA6000−317:2270.0%00.346.3%
2022–23All teams5411112+318:52561.8%02.653.5%
2023–24CHI44022−1517:31280.0%00.739.9%
2024–25FLA8000−216:0650.0%00.158.5%
2025–26VGK4000−510:3710.0%00.037.7%
Total6 teams19742327−2417:291682.4%06.648.3%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.620406080100120140160180
12m14m16m18m20m22m20406080100120140160180Game

Player card

Model-based

How 8 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

24th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.0713th pct
  • Assists /600.4014th pct
  • ixG /600.1211th pct
  • Shots /602.9313th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.3%40th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.4%39th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.376th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.5734th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game17:2951st pct
  • PP time share1.2%22nd pct
  • PK time share35.8%66th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%42nd 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. Josh GorgesBUF0.92
  2. Vincent DesharnaisEDM0.90
  3. Ilya LyubushkinARI0.90
  4. Brooks OrpikWSH0.88
  5. Derek ForbortLAK/BOS0.87
  6. Patrik NemethCOL/NYR/ARI0.87

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.

−2.6 goals above expected

0246850100150Game

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

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40

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 speed31.5 km/h3rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot108.6 km/h2nd pct
  • Distance skated10 km9th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.6%20th 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

31.5 km/h0th pct

▼ −2.1 km/h since 2024–25

303234363821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 34.0 km/h, 17th percentile (44 games)2022–23: 35.2 km/h, 49th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 34.3 km/h, 24th percentile (44 games)2024–25: 33.6 km/h, 7th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 31.5 km/h, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.00th pct

▼ −2.3 since 2024–25

012321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 0.9, 27th percentile (44 games)2022–23: 1.8, 61st percentile (54 games)2023–24: 0.9, 22nd percentile (44 games)2024–25: 2.3, 75th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 0.0, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

13.5 km40th pct

▼ −0.7 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 12.9 km, 10th percentile (44 games)2022–23: 13.4 km, 44th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 13.3 km, 32nd percentile (44 games)2024–25: 14.2 km, 81st percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 13.5 km, 40th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

108.6 km/h0th pct

▼ −11.2 km/h since 2024–25

10012014016018021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 126.6 km/h, 1st percentile (44 games)2022–23: 132.3 km/h, 1st percentile (54 games)2023–24: 130.0 km/h, 1st percentile (44 games)2024–25: 119.8 km/h, 0th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 108.6 km/h, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

39.6%20th pct

▼ −6.5 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%48%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 38.2%, 4th percentile (44 games)2022–23: 42.9%, 68th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 39.7%, 25th percentile (44 games)2024–25: 46.1%, 96th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 39.6%, 20th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)