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Right wing · #56

Jesse Ylonen

Montréal Canadiens
Age
27
Shoots
Right
Height
188 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Scottsdale, USA
Draft
2018, round 2, #35 (MTL)

Career · 2020–21 to 2023–24

Games
111
Goals
12
Points
29
TOI per game
11:29
xGF% (5v5)
41.1%
Goals above expected
+2.5

Season by season

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

2020–21MTL1000011:2310.0%00.236.2%
2021–22MTL14235+211:341612.5%01.247.0%
2022–23MTL3761016−1113:274314.0%13.443.1%
2023–24MTL59448+210:14508.0%04.738.0%
Total1 team111121729−711:2911010.9%19.541.1%

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)
00.20.40.60.820406080100
8m10m12m14m16m20406080100Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2020–21 to 2023–24 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

16th 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

4th line
  • Goals /600.5630th pct
  • Assists /600.8036th pct
  • ixG /600.454th pct
  • Goals above expected+2.574th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)41.1%5th pct
  • CF% (5v5)41.1%2nd pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.515th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0040th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game11:2923rd pct
  • PP time share20.7%49th pct
  • Offensive zone starts48.5%35th pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%57th 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. Mitchell StephensMTL0.93
  2. Cody Eakin0.92
  3. Greg McKegg0.92
  4. Kyle TurrisEDM0.89
  5. Carl Soderberg0.89
  6. Loui Eriksson0.88

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.

+2.5 goals above expected

02468101220406080100Game

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

−40−200+20+40+60

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 speed36.2 km/h66th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph8263rd pct
  • Hardest shot149.0 km/h84th pct
  • Distance skated160 km41st pct
  • Offensive-zone time36.9%4th 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

36.2 km/h60th pct

▲ +0.8 km/h since 2022–23

3535.53636.53721–2222–2323–242021–22: 36.7 km/h, 77th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 35.4 km/h, 32nd percentile (37 games)2023–24: 36.2 km/h, 60th percentile (59 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

8.179th pct

▲ +1.2 since 2022–23

24681021–2222–2323–242021–22: 8.9, 80th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 7.0, 71st percentile (37 games)2023–24: 8.1, 79th percentile (59 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.9 km70th pct

▼ −0.4 km since 2022–23

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–242021–22: 15.9 km, 68th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 16.3 km, 91st percentile (37 games)2023–24: 15.9 km, 70th percentile (59 games)

Hardest shot

149.0 km/h79th pct

▲ +3.9 km/h since 2022–23

13514014515015521–2222–2323–242021–22: 141.3 km/h, 39th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 145.1 km/h, 58th percentile (37 games)2023–24: 149.0 km/h, 79th percentile (59 games)

Offensive-zone time

36.9%5th pct

▼ −1.4 points since 2022–23

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–242021–22: 38.1%, 9th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 38.3%, 10th percentile (37 games)2023–24: 36.9%, 5th percentile (59 games)