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Defence · #78

Jacob Bryson

Buffalo Sabres Winnipeg Jets(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
175 cm
Weight
80 kg
Born
London, CAN
Draft
2017, round 4, #99 (BUF)

Career · 2020–21 to 2025–26

Games
304
Goals
6
Points
51
TOI per game
15:25
xGF% (5v5)
47.2%
Goals above expected
0.0

Season by season

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

2020–21BUF38189−119:03244.2%11.145.2%
2021–22BUF731910−918:20432.3%71.448.2%
2022–23BUF59189−2414:35273.7%01.047.4%
2023–24BUF36178+514:41156.7%00.548.4%
2024–25BUF48077−914:24200.0%00.943.5%
2025–26BUF35235−110:021216.7%00.852.0%
2025–26WPG15033−812:48100.0%00.347.0%
2025–26All teams50268−910:52229.1%01.150.4%
Total2 teams30464551−4715:251514.0%86.047.2%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.550100150200250300
10m15m20m50100150200250300Game

Player card

How 2020–21 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

20th 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 /600.0814th pct
  • Assists /600.5835th pct
  • ixG /600.081st pct
  • Shots /601.931st pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)47.2%30th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.0%38th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.751st pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.5547th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game15:2527th pct
  • PP time share6.4%51st pct
  • PK time share21.6%44th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%48th 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).

Finishing

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.

0.0 goals above expected

012345650100150200250300Game

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

−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 speed35.6 km/h67th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2554th pct
  • Hardest shot139.0 km/h29th pct
  • Distance skated128 km35th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.7%35th 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

35.6 km/h56th pct

▲ +1.1 km/h since 2024–25

3435363721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.2 km/h, 82nd percentile (73 games)2022–23: 36.5 km/h, 84th percentile (59 games)2023–24: 36.5 km/h, 83rd percentile (36 games)2024–25: 34.5 km/h, 28th percentile (48 games)2025–26: 35.6 km/h, 56th percentile (50 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.882nd pct

▲ +0.5 since 2024–25

01234521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 3.9, 94th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 3.0, 88th percentile (59 games)2023–24: 2.0, 66th percentile (36 games)2024–25: 2.3, 74th percentile (48 games)2025–26: 2.8, 82nd percentile (50 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.1 km82nd pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2024–25

1313.51414.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 14.1 km, 85th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 14.1 km, 84th percentile (59 games)2023–24: 13.4 km, 36th percentile (36 games)2024–25: 13.9 km, 64th percentile (48 games)2025–26: 14.1 km, 82nd percentile (50 games)

Hardest shot

139.0 km/h13th pct

▲ +5.5 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 142.2 km/h, 12th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 140.8 km/h, 11th percentile (59 games)2023–24: 130.2 km/h, 1st percentile (36 games)2024–25: 133.5 km/h, 4th percentile (48 games)2025–26: 139.0 km/h, 13th percentile (50 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.7%36th pct

▼ −0.4 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 41.5%, 50th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 41.3%, 44th percentile (59 games)2023–24: 38.8%, 15th percentile (36 games)2024–25: 41.2%, 42nd percentile (48 games)2025–26: 40.7%, 36th percentile (50 games)