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Right wing · #63

Jacob Melanson

Age
23
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
94 kg
Born
Halifax, CAN
Draft
2021, round 5, #131 (SEA)

Career · 2024–25 to 2026–27

Games
38
Goals
2
Points
5
TOI per game
9:23
xGF% (5v5)
48.6%
Goals above expected
−2.8

Season by season

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

2024–25SEA100009:530–00.035.5%
2025–26SEA36235−99:22336.1%04.649.6%
2026–27SEA100009:3110.0%00.238.0%
Total1 team38235−99:23345.9%04.848.6%

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)
00.10.20.30.4101520253035
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Player card

How 2024–25 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

31st 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 /600.3412th pct
  • Assists /600.5011th pct
  • ixG /600.8155th pct
  • Goals above expected−2.830th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.6%42nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.7%33rd pct
  • Relative xGF%+4.490th pct
  • Penalty diff /601.0199th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:235th pct
  • PP time share0.3%2nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts31.3%11th pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%14th 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).

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.

−2.8 goals above expected

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

−20−100+10+20+30

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 speed34.6 km/h63rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph223rd pct
  • Hardest shot107.0 km/h20th pct
  • Distance skated2 km3rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.2%15th 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

35.7 km/h37th pct

▲ +1.2 km/h since 2024–25

343536373824–2525–262024–25: 34.5 km/h, 7th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.7 km/h, 37th percentile (36 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

12.593rd pct

▲ +0.3 since 2024–25

246810121424–2525–262024–25: 12.1, 93rd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 12.5, 93rd percentile (36 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.6 km97th pct

▲ +1.4 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.51724–2525–262024–25: 15.2 km, 21st percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 16.6 km, 97th percentile (36 games)

Hardest shot

126.6 km/h5th pct

2025–26 only

12013014015024–2525–262025–26: 126.6 km/h, 5th percentile (36 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.5%17th pct

▼ −2.7 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%24–2525–262024–25: 42.1%, 54th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 39.5%, 17th percentile (36 games)