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Centre · #52

Reese Johnson

Chicago Blackhawks Minnesota Wild(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Regina, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2020–21 to 2024–25

Games
144
Goals
7
Points
17
TOI per game
10:45
xGF% (5v5)
38.9%
Goals above expected
−5.4
ShowAll teamsChicago BlackhawksMinnesota Wild

Season by season

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

2020–21CHI5000−27:5740.0%00.350.3%
2021–22CHI37156−1310:38244.2%02.738.8%
2022–23CHI57426−1511:01547.4%05.435.8%
2023–24CHI42235−2010:56513.9%04.041.5%
2024–25MIN300009:3210.0%00.145.9%
Total2 teams14471017−5010:451345.2%012.438.9%

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)
00.10.20.30.420406080100120140
8m9m10m11m12m13m14m20406080100120140Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2020–21 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

4th 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 /600.276th pct
  • Assists /600.396th pct
  • ixG /600.487th pct
  • Goals above expected−5.423rd pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)38.9%2nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)41.9%3rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.617th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3986th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:4516th pct
  • PP time share0.5%2nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts29.0%6th pct
  • Quality of competition23.1%13th 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. Nathan WalkerSTL0.95
  2. Beck MalenstynWSH0.95
  3. MacKenzie EntwistleCHI0.94
  4. Saku MaenalanenWPG0.92
  5. Ben JonesMIN0.92
  6. Kevin RooneyNYR0.91

Faceoffs

How often Johnson wins the draw over 2020–21 to 2024–25, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 956+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

51.7%

269–251 · below the 956 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

51.5%

Opponents won 49.8% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.2% against them.

Wins above average

+8

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

Draws per game

4.5

520 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

57%115 · −0.864%22 · +0.353%36 · +1.267%9 · 0.050%20 · 0.057%14 · +0.445%22 · −0.255%92 · +2.645%190 · +2.2Attacking 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 zone56.9% 33–25
  • Neutral zone55.6% 100–80
  • Defensive zone48.2% 136–146

By strength

  • Even strength53.5% 232–202
  • Power play80.0% 4–1
  • Shorthanded40.7% 33–48

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +5 after a win, −33 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.4 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2020–2110.0%-0.7%
2021–2221250.5%50.2%
2022–2322653.1%53.0%
2023–248151.9%51.5%

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.

−5.4 goals above expected

051020406080100120140Game

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

−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 speed33.6 km/h7th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph37th pct
  • Hardest shot102.1 km/h3rd pct
  • Distance skated7 km7th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.7%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

33.6 km/h1st pct

▼ −2.7 km/h since 2023–24

33343536373821–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 34.9 km/h, 18th percentile (37 games)2022–23: 37.1 km/h, 87th percentile (57 games)2023–24: 36.3 km/h, 65th percentile (42 games)2024–25: 33.6 km/h, 1st percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.361st pct

▼ −0.6 since 2023–24

24681021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 8.4, 78th percentile (37 games)2022–23: 8.1, 78th percentile (57 games)2023–24: 6.9, 69th percentile (42 games)2024–25: 6.3, 61st percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.3 km4th pct

▼ −0.9 km since 2023–24

1414.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 16.1 km, 80th percentile (37 games)2022–23: 15.3 km, 44th percentile (57 games)2023–24: 15.2 km, 28th percentile (42 games)2024–25: 14.3 km, 4th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

102.1 km/h0th pct

▼ −48.7 km/h since 2023–24

8010012014016021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 135.6 km/h, 19th percentile (37 games)2022–23: 148.1 km/h, 73rd percentile (57 games)2023–24: 150.7 km/h, 83rd percentile (42 games)2024–25: 102.1 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

39.7%20th pct

▲ +1.5 points since 2023–24

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 38.1%, 9th percentile (37 games)2022–23: 36.4%, 3rd percentile (57 games)2023–24: 38.2%, 12th percentile (42 games)2024–25: 39.7%, 20th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)