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Defence · #9

Jacob MacDonald

Florida Panthers Colorado Avalanche San Jose Sharks(traded during the season)
Age
33
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Portland, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 5 seasons

Games
135
Goals
10
Points
27
TOI per game
12:38
xGF% (5v5)
50.4%
Goals above expected
−3.6
ShowAll teamsFlorida PanthersColorado AvalancheSan Jose Sharks

Season by season

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

2018–19FLA2101+112:031100.0%00.146.6%
After a break: 2020–21COL33189+1414:57492.0%02.259.1%
2021–22COL8000−110:06170.0%01.361.9%
2022–23COL33022−38:40290.0%01.851.2%
2022–23SJS25156−1116:30462.2%13.347.6%
2022–23All teams58178−1412:02751.3%15.148.9%
2023–24SJS34729−1412:014914.3%45.041.8%
Total3 teams135101727−1412:381915.2%513.650.4%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.620406080100120
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Player card

Model-based

How 5 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

82nd 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

1st pair
  • Goals /600.3588th pct
  • Assists /600.6041st pct
  • ixG /600.4899th pct
  • Shots /606.7297th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)50.4%61st pct
  • CF% (5v5)51.7%77th pct
  • Relative xGF%+2.486th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3775th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game12:383rd pct
  • PP time share13.6%62nd pct
  • PK time share5.1%12th pct
  • Quality of competition23.7%29th 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. Dylan CoghlanVGK/CAR0.85
  2. Brad HuntMIN/COL0.77
  3. Brandt Clarke0.77
  4. Oliver KylingtonCGY0.74
  5. Dougie HamiltonNJD0.72
  6. Sean WalkerLAK0.71

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.

−3.6 goals above expected

05101520406080100120Game

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

−100+10+20+30

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 speed37.2 km/h95th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph3364th pct
  • Hardest shot152.2 km/h68th pct
  • Distance skated107 km28th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.9%54th 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

37.2 km/h93rd pct

▲ +1.1 km/h since 2022–23

343536373821–2222–2323–242021–22: 35.6 km/h, 62nd percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 36.2 km/h, 78th percentile (58 games)2023–24: 37.2 km/h, 93rd percentile (34 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.896th pct

▼ −1.3 since 2022–23

024681021–2222–2323–242021–22: 8.2, 100th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 6.2, 100th percentile (58 games)2023–24: 4.8, 96th percentile (34 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km100th pct

▲ +1.3 km since 2022–23

12131415161721–2222–2323–242021–22: 15.1 km, 100th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 14.5 km, 96th percentile (58 games)2023–24: 15.7 km, 100th percentile (34 games)

Hardest shot

152.2 km/h62nd pct

▲ +0.9 km/h since 2022–23

14014515015516021–2222–2323–242021–22: 143.4 km/h, 15th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 151.3 km/h, 52nd percentile (58 games)2023–24: 152.2 km/h, 62nd percentile (34 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.9%53rd pct

▼ −0.8 points since 2022–23

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 44.9%, 91st percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 42.7%, 66th percentile (58 games)2023–24: 41.9%, 53rd percentile (34 games)