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Left wing · #19

Jakub Vrana

Washington Capitals Detroit Red Wings St. Louis Blues Nashville Predators(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
89 kg
Born
Prague, CZE
Draft
2014, round 1, #13 (WSH)

Career · 2016–17 to 2024–25

Games
406
Goals
119
Points
223
TOI per game
13:31
xGF% (5v5)
48.0%
Goals above expected
+26.2
ShowAll teamsWashington CapitalsDetroit Red WingsSt. Louis BluesNashville Predators

Season by season

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

2016–17WSH21336+211:07329.4%45.648.0%
2017–18WSH73131427+212:301339.8%314.952.0%
2018–19WSH82242347+2014:0216114.9%418.150.1%
2019–20WSH69252752+314:5318713.4%1121.151.2%
2020–21WSH39111425+914:226816.2%47.648.9%
2020–21DET118311+117:163225.0%13.943.1%
2020–21All teams50191736+1015:0010019.0%511.547.0%
2021–22DET2613619−814:566520.0%66.443.0%
2022–23DET5112+112:05714.3%01.144.0%
2022–23STL2010414+215:105617.9%46.342.7%
2022–23All teams2511516+314:336317.5%47.442.9%
2023–24STL21246−712:08424.8%03.542.6%
2024–25WSH267411+69:502825.0%33.039.9%
2024–25NSH13213−1011:231910.5%11.441.0%
2024–25All teams399514−410:214719.1%44.440.3%
Total4 teams406119104223+2113:3183014.3%4192.848.0%

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)
00.20.40.60.811.250100150200250300350400
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Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

80th 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

1st line
  • Goals /601.3097th pct
  • Assists /601.1475th pct
  • ixG /601.0189th pct
  • Goals above expected+26.295th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.0%41st pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.0%52nd pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.158th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1459th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game13:3154th pct
  • PP time share30.4%65th pct
  • Offensive zone starts67.7%86th pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%61st 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. Daniel SprongPIT/WSH0.92
  2. Tage ThompsonSTL/BUF0.92
  3. Jordan KyrouSTL0.90
  4. Anthony DuclairCBJ/OTT/FLA/SJS0.90
  5. Ryan DonatoBOS/MIN/SEA/CHI0.88
  6. James van RiemsdykTOR/PHI0.88

Faceoffs

How often Vrana wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2024–25, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1734+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

36.6%

37–64 · below the 1734 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

37.1%

Opponents won 50.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.5% against them.

Wins above average

−13

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

Draws per game

1.2

101 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

25%4 · 0.039%49 · +1.037%19 · +3.245%11 · −1.20%3 · –33%3 · 0.050%2 · +14.043%7 · −4.00%3 · –Attacking 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 zone38.2% 26–42
  • Neutral zone34.8% 8–15
  • Defensive zone30.0% 3–7

By strength

  • Even strength38.5% 35–56
  • Power play20.0% 2–8

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +22 after a win, +2 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–1730.0%-4.7%
2017–182552.0%52.8%
2018–191040.0%39.1%
2019–201154.5%56.2%
2020–21944.4%45.2%
2021–22333.3%32.4%
2022–23728.6%32.7%
2023–24130.0%-0.2%
2024–252035.0%35.3%

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.

+26.2 goals above expected

02040608010012050100150200250300350400Game

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 speed36.6 km/h74th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph5346th pct
  • Hardest shot148.0 km/h88th pct
  • Distance skated103 km33rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.5%18th 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

36.6 km/h67th pct

▼ −0.0 km/h since 2023–24

3535.53636.53737.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 36.0 km/h, 49th percentile (26 games)2022–23: 36.2 km/h, 57th percentile (25 games)2023–24: 36.6 km/h, 73rd percentile (21 games)2024–25: 36.6 km/h, 67th percentile (39 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

7.974th pct

▼ −0.4 since 2023–24

2468101221–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 9.7, 84th percentile (26 games)2022–23: 8.7, 82nd percentile (25 games)2023–24: 8.2, 79th percentile (21 games)2024–25: 7.9, 74th percentile (39 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.2 km24th pct

▼ −0.3 km since 2023–24

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 15.1 km, 24th percentile (26 games)2022–23: 15.6 km, 62nd percentile (25 games)2023–24: 15.6 km, 51st percentile (21 games)2024–25: 15.2 km, 24th percentile (39 games)

Hardest shot

148.0 km/h85th pct

▼ −0.1 km/h since 2023–24

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 150.8 km/h, 79th percentile (26 games)2022–23: 151.7 km/h, 86th percentile (25 games)2023–24: 148.1 km/h, 77th percentile (21 games)2024–25: 148.0 km/h, 85th percentile (39 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.5%19th pct

▼ −2.0 points since 2023–24

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 40.4%, 33rd percentile (26 games)2022–23: 40.7%, 36th percentile (25 games)2023–24: 41.5%, 47th percentile (21 games)2024–25: 39.5%, 19th percentile (39 games)