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Centre · #20

Jayson Megna

Pittsburgh Penguins New York Rangers Vancouver Canucks Colorado Avalanche Anaheim Ducks Boston Bruins(traded during the season)
Age
36
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Fort Lauderdale, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 10 seasons

Games
204
Goals
12
Points
33
TOI per game
10:48
xGF% (5v5)
44.4%
Goals above expected
−7.8

Season by season

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

2013–14PIT36549+110:293613.9%03.750.3%
2014–15PIT12011−211:02130.0%00.937.0%
2015–16NYR6112−112:15911.1%01.352.9%
2016–17VAN58448−412:26725.6%16.644.6%
2017–18VAN100004:180–00.025.3%
After a break: 2019–20COL8000−16:4340.0%00.241.2%
2020–21COL7022+210:15120.0%01.363.1%
2021–22COL20033−210:18190.0%01.947.4%
2022–23COL14000−27:1840.0%00.447.6%
2022–23ANA41268−1910:56326.3%03.436.7%
2022–23All teams55268−2110:00365.6%03.838.4%
2023–24BOS1000011:450–00.177.4%
Total6 teams204122133−2810:482016.0%119.844.4%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.550100150200
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Player card

Model-based

How 10 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

14th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

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

Scoring

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.3312th pct
  • Assists /600.5722nd pct
  • ixG /600.5420th pct
  • Goals above expected−7.817th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)44.4%16th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.1%11th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.427th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3379th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game10:4820th pct
  • PP time share6.5%33rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts49.2%34th pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%47th 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

  1. Tanner LaczynskiPHI0.94
  2. Logan ShawANA/WPG/OTT0.94
  3. Jake LeschyshynVGK0.93
  4. Ryan MacInnis0.93
  5. Christoffer Ehn0.93
  6. David GustafssonWPG0.91

Faceoffs

How often Megna wins the draw over 10 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1934+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

49.0%

219–228 · below the 1934 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

48.4%

Opponents won 49.4% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.6% against them.

Wins above average

−7

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

Draws per game

5.4

447 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

47%77 · −0.443%28 · +2.651%69 · +2.159%17 · +0.643%23 · −0.963%8 · +0.538%21 · −0.247%34 · +0.551%170 · +2.0Attacking zone →← Defending zone

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

By zone

  • Offensive zone48.5% 47–50
  • Neutral zone47.3% 69–77
  • Defensive zone50.5% 103–101

By strength

  • Even strength49.1% 197–204
  • Power play50.0% 2–2
  • Shorthanded47.6% 20–22

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +5 after a win, −21 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.2 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2013–141020.0%22.7%
2015–161100.0%103.1%
2016–171612.5%10.6%
2017–1820.0%-1.4%
2019–2010.0%-9.3%
2020–212254.5%55.0%
2021–2211648.3%47.8%
2022–2327952.3%51.6%

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.

−7.8 goals above expected

0510152050100150200Game

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

−500+50+100

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 speed32.4 km/h3rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph25th pct
  • Hardest shot118.2 km/h8th pct
  • Distance skated3 km3rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time51.6%100th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards 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 forwardMiddle 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

32.4 km/h0th pct

▼ −3.8 km/h since 2022–23

30323436384021–2222–2323–242021–22: 37.5 km/h, 93rd percentile (20 games)2022–23: 36.2 km/h, 58th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 32.4 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

10.287th pct

▲ +2.1 since 2022–23

0510152021–2222–2323–242021–22: 16.6, 98th percentile (20 games)2022–23: 8.1, 78th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 10.2, 87th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

17.4 km100th pct

▲ +2.2 km since 2022–23

141516171821–2222–2323–242021–22: 15.9 km, 68th percentile (20 games)2022–23: 15.2 km, 37th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 17.4 km, 100th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

118.2 km/h0th pct

▼ −18.5 km/h since 2022–23

11012013014015016021–2222–2323–242021–22: 129.6 km/h, 6th percentile (20 games)2022–23: 136.7 km/h, 20th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 118.2 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

51.6%100th pct

▲ +16.8 points since 2022–23

30%35%40%45%50%55%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 40.7%, 36th percentile (20 games)2022–23: 34.8%, 0th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 51.6%, 100th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)