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Centre · #44

Josh Dunne

Columbus Blue Jackets Buffalo Sabres(traded during the season)
Age
27
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
94 kg
Born
O'Fallon, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 4 seasons

Games
50
Goals
1
Points
4
TOI per game
9:34
xGF% (5v5)
44.9%
Goals above expected
−4.0
ShowAll teamsColumbus Blue JacketsBuffalo Sabres

Season by season

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

2020–21CBJ6000−110:2370.0%00.763.3%
After a break: 2022–23CBJ8000−69:5840.0%00.736.0%
After a break: 2024–25BUF2000−37:0610.0%00.18.7%
2025–26BUF34134−79:29293.4%03.546.7%
Total2 teams50134−179:34412.4%05.044.9%

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)
00.050.10.150.2101520253035404550
9m9m10m10m11m11m101520253035404550Game

Player card

Model-based

How 4 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

10th 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 /600.131st pct
  • Assists /600.385th pct
  • ixG /600.6329th pct
  • Goals above expected−4.026th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)44.9%19th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.6%25th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.035th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.2572nd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:345th pct
  • PP time share8.2%32nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts36.2%16th pct
  • Quality of competition23.1%8th 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. Jansen Harkins0.93
  2. Zack Ostapchuk0.93
  3. Akil Thomas0.92
  4. Saku Maenalanen0.91
  5. Kyle MacLeanNYI0.91
  6. Kevin Rooney0.90

Faceoffs

How often Dunne wins the draw over 4 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 756+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

46.7%

100–114 · below the 756 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

47.6%

Opponents won 50.9% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.1% against them.

Wins above average

−5

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

Draws per game

5.1

214 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

51%55 · +1.642%33 · +1.125%16 · +0.440%10 · +0.857%7 · −1.467%9 · −2.833%3 · +4.446%37 · +1.250%44 · +1.6Attacking 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 zone36.7% 18–31
  • Neutral zone51.2% 43–41
  • Defensive zone48.1% 39–42

By strength

  • Even strength48.2% 96–103
  • Power play37.5% 3–5
  • Shorthanded14.3% 1–6

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +8 after a win, −18 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.0 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2020–213417.6%18.9%
2022–235151.0%52.4%
2024–25728.6%32.1%
2025–2612254.1%54.5%

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.

−4.0 goals above expected

0123451020304050Game

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 speed33.9 km/h10th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1320th pct
  • Hardest shot128.9 km/h21st pct
  • Distance skated81 km28th pct
  • Offensive-zone time42.1%51st 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

33.9 km/h3rd pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2024–25

3234363822–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 32.7 km/h, 0th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 33.2 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 33.9 km/h, 3rd percentile (34 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.413th pct

▼ −1.8 since 2024–25

024681022–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 1.5, 9th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 4.2, 37th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 2.4, 13th percentile (34 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.0 km19th pct

▼ −0.6 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.522–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 15.6 km, 58th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.6 km, 47th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 15.0 km, 19th percentile (34 games)

Hardest shot

128.9 km/h8th pct

▲ +18.2 km/h since 2024–25

10012014016022–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 128.5 km/h, 4th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 110.7 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 128.9 km/h, 8th percentile (34 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.1%54th pct

▲ +3.7 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 41.3%, 42nd percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 38.4%, 9th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 42.1%, 54th percentile (34 games)