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Centre · #53

Jack Studnicka

Boston Bruins Vancouver Canucks San Jose Sharks Florida Panthers(traded during the season)
Age
27
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
85 kg
Born
Windsor, CAN
Draft
2017, round 2, #53 (BOS)

Career · 6 seasons

Games
126
Goals
6
Points
16
TOI per game
10:49
xGF% (5v5)
39.7%
Goals above expected
−8.3
ShowAll teamsBoston BruinsVancouver CanucksSan Jose SharksFlorida Panthers

Season by season

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

2019–20BOS2011+212:0830.0%00.372.5%
2020–21BOS20123−312:45283.6%03.047.8%
2021–22BOS15033−512:35210.0%02.646.3%
2022–23BOS1000−18:010–00.059.0%
2022–23VAN47448−1110:39656.2%05.738.3%
2022–23All teams48448−1210:36656.2%05.738.4%
2023–24VAN5101+210:11425.0%00.549.1%
2023–24SJS17000−1411:49160.0%01.328.2%
2023–24All teams22101−1211:27205.0%01.931.0%
After a break: 2025–26FLA19000−67:06160.0%00.834.6%
Total4 teams12661016−3610:491533.9%014.339.7%

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)
00.10.20.320406080100120
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Player card

Model-based

How 6 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

2nd 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 /600.267th pct
  • Assists /600.448th pct
  • ixG /600.6329th pct
  • Goals above expected−8.315th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)39.7%3rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.8%9th pct
  • Relative xGF%−8.74th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0039th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:4919th pct
  • PP time share4.2%25th pct
  • Offensive zone starts46.8%31st pct
  • Quality of competition22.8%7th 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. Lias Andersson0.96
  2. Jake Leschyshyn0.93
  3. Ryan MacInnis0.90
  4. Brett LeasonANA0.89
  5. Greg McKeggBOS/NYR0.89
  6. Andy AndreoffPHI0.88

Faceoffs

How often Studnicka wins the draw over 6 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1124+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

45.0%

273–334 · below the 1124 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

44.4%

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

Wins above average

−34

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

Draws per game

6.0

607 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

39%142 · +1.242%45 · +4.346%121 · +1.441%17 · +2.540%30 · +1.548%21 · −0.544%27 · −1.353%55 · +1.948%149 · +1.3Attacking 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 zone45.2% 75–91
  • Neutral zone40.9% 97–140
  • Defensive zone49.5% 101–103

By strength

  • Even strength44.3% 247–310
  • Power play18.2% 2–9
  • Shorthanded61.5% 24–15

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +11 after a win, −20 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2019–201560.0%59.1%
2020–2110145.5%44.1%
2021–2211948.7%48.1%
2022–2316147.8%47.3%
2023–2415339.9%39.0%
2025–265837.9%39.5%

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.

−8.3 goals above expected

05101520406080100120Game

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

−80−60−40−200+20+40+60+80

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 speed35.5 km/h40th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2528th pct
  • Hardest shot126.7 km/h17th pct
  • Distance skated37 km19th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.6%29th 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

35.5 km/h30th pct

▼ −0.9 km/h since 2023–24

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 34.8 km/h, 15th percentile (15 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 36.7 km/h, 77th percentile (48 games)2023–24: 36.4 km/h, 66th percentile (22 games)2025–26: 35.5 km/h, 30th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

11.190th pct

▼ −2.2 since 2023–24

05101521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 6.7, 65th percentile (15 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 10.1, 88th percentile (48 games)2023–24: 13.3, 95th percentile (22 games)2025–26: 11.1, 90th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.3 km89th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2023–24

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 16.0 km, 72nd percentile (15 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 15.7 km, 65th percentile (48 games)2023–24: 16.1 km, 81st percentile (22 games)2025–26: 16.3 km, 89th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

126.7 km/h5th pct

▲ +3.4 km/h since 2023–24

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 133.2 km/h, 13th percentile (15 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 129.0 km/h, 4th percentile (48 games)2023–24: 123.3 km/h, 2nd percentile (22 games)2025–26: 126.7 km/h, 5th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

40.6%32nd pct

▲ +3.1 points since 2023–24

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2021–22: 40.4%, 33rd percentile (15 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 39.4%, 19th percentile (48 games)2023–24: 37.6%, 7th percentile (22 games)2025–26: 40.6%, 32nd percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)