Roman Josi Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Evangelista does better away from him: 63.8% of the expected goals apart against 54.3% together.

389 minutes together, 729 minutes apart

Michael Bunting is the partner who brings the best out of him

Josi is at his best beside Bunting: 58.0% of the expected goals together against 49.7% apart.

241 minutes together, 1,025 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Jonathan Marchessault

The pairing with Marchessault is the one that costs him: 46.8% of the expected goals together, 52.6% apart.

262 minutes together, 1,004 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Bunting is a different player beside him: 58.0% of the expected goals with Josi, 52.6% without him.

241 minutes together, 519 minutes apart for Bunting

He and Michael Bunting are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Josi and Bunting: 5.92 expected goals an hour.

241 minutes together at 5v5

Brady Skjei is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Skjei than anyone: 493 minutes, worth 51.3% of the expected goals.

24 goals for, 22 against together

The goals go his team's way when Luke Evangelista is out there with him

With Evangelista on the ice too, the Predators have outscored opponents 24 to 17 at 5v5.

58.5% goal share over 389 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Steven Stamkos are out together

He gives up least beside Stamkos: 4.16 expected goals against an hour.

413 minutes together at 5v5

Ryan O'Reilly is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is O'Reilly: 91.7% of the expected goals over 188 minutes.

31 goals for, 1 against together

Nicolas Hague is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Hague: 6.56 expected goals against an hour.

33 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Josi with Evangelista, O'Reilly, Skjei and Stamkos, 97 minutes at 5v5.

50.7% of the expected goals, 9 goals for and 3 against

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Evangelista, Forsberg, O'Reilly and Skjei: 67.5% of the expected goals over 40 minutes.

3 goals for, 1 against, 61.5% of the attempts

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Forsberg, Marchessault, O'Reilly and Stamkos: 16 goals in 109 minutes.

8.78 goals an hour, 18.5 expected

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Forsberg, O'Reilly, Perbix and Stamkos: 39.6% of the expected goals.

1 goal for, 2 against over 32 minutes

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Josi has played 47 different five-man units at 5v5, 4 of them for real minutes.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled

The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

17 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Josi this season.

each of them also has that long apart from him, so every split below is a real split

Ryan O'Reilly is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Ryan O'Reilly has assisted on 6 of his 13 goals, 46.2% of them.

4 primary, 2 secondary

Steven Stamkos is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 13 of Steven Stamkos's goals, 31.0% of his own assists.

3 primary, 10 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

45.2% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

19 primary of 42 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

11 different teammates have assisted on his 13 goals.

O'Reilly (6), Forsberg (4), Stamkos (4), Haula (2)

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 8.02 expected goals an hour.

4 goals against in 81 minutes, 18th of 156 defencemen

Good things happen for his team when he is on the ice

The Predators are up 15 goals with Josi on the ice.

107 for, 92 against, 31st of 247 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 99.2, close to neutral.

9.6% shooting and 89.6% goaltending behind him, 156th of 244 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Predators create 4.73 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Josi on.

57th of 244 defencemen

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 46.7% of the goals off 51.5% of the expected goals.

4.8 points of goal share below expectation

His line spends the night in the other team's end

At 5v5 the Predators generate 51.5% of the expected goals with Josi on the ice.

99.8 xGF to 94.1 xGA over 1,267 minutes, 81st of 244 defencemen

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Predators score 46.7% of the 5v5 goals with Josi out there.

57 for, 65 against, 156th of 244 defencemen

The other team gets whatever it wants when he is on

Opponents get 59.03 shot attempts an hour with Josi on the ice at 5v5.

152nd of 244 defencemen

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Josi's line owns 50.4% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,264 for, 1,246 against, 94th of 244 defencemen

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

He gives up 4.46 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

143rd of 244 defencemen

Shots even out when he is on the ice

48.7% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Josi is on.

593 for, 624 against, 141st of 244 defencemen

The power play is ordinary with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 9.43 expected goals an hour.

34 goals in 219 minutes, 38th of 85 defencemen

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Josi plays 24:52 a night, 7th among defencemen.

1,692 minutes across 68 games

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:23 of penalty kill time a game, 140th among defencemen.

4.8% of his total ice time

His coach puts him out for most of the power play time

He draws 3:13 of power play time a game, 14th among defencemen.

13.0% of his total ice time

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 0.85 checks an hour.

862nd in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -15 on the season.

858th in the league

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.85 points an hour.

87th in the league

He is the one who makes the play, not the one who finishes it

He sets up 1.49 assists an hour of ice time.

146th in the league

A lot of his goals arrive when the game is on the line

Josi has 3 game winners including 1 in overtime this season.

13 goals in total

He gives the puck away more than he should

23 takeaways against 77 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.3 takeaways per giveaway

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Josi produces 1.95 points an hour of ice time.

240th in the league

He shoots the puck himself, not just when his line has it

He puts 6.42 shots on goal an hour.

269th in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 3.58 shots an hour of ice time.

299th in the league

He gives the puck away about as often as most

He gives it away 2.73 times an hour.

551st most giveaways an hour

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.06 penalty minutes an hour.

601st most penalty minutes an hour

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.46 goals an hour of ice time.

445th in the league

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.82 times an hour.

496th in the league

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Josi has taken 386 shot attempts this season.

169 on goal, 70 missed, 134 blocked, 17th of 241 defencemen

When he shoots, it tends to be on target

72.2% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

182 of 252 unblocked, 15th of 241 defencemen

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 37.2 feet.

386 located attempts, 16th of 241 defencemen

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

36.3% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

140 long-range attempts, 18th of 241 defencemen

He shoots the puck far more than most players at his position

He fires 13.69 attempts an hour of ice time.

386 attempts in 1,692 minutes, 30th of 247 defencemen

He gets his chances from the dirty areas, not the perimeter

26.9% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

104 attempts from inside the home plate, 52nd of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

26.9% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

104 of 386 attempts, 53rd of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

29.5% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

114 attempts, 7 goals

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

34.7% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

134 of 386 attempts, 82nd of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Josi has scored 2 times on Filip Gustavsson this season, more than on any other goaltender.

2 goals on 13 attempts, 15.4%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Alex Lyon has turned him away every time: 12 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

Almost everything he puts on this goalie goes in

His deadliest matchup is Filip Gustavsson: 15.4% of his attempts against him go in.

2 goals on 13 attempts

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Wild this season.

24 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Filip Gustavsson: 13 attempts, 2 goals.

15.4% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Blues have held him without a goal on 25 attempts.

the most attempts he has taken against a club without scoring

He gets under this opponent's skin and draws the penalty

He has drawn 2 penalties on Artemi Panarin.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 0.0% of his attempts.

0 goals on 104 close attempts, 144th of 221 defencemen

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 37.8 feet out, and the longest went in from 52.

13 goals located by coordinate

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 7.1% of the shots he puts on goal.

13 goals on 182 shots, 72nd of 241 defencemen

He scores about what his chances are worth

Josi has 13 goals off 14.9 expected: 1.9 short of what the chances say.

126th of 241 defencemen

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