Jonathan Marchessault

Jonathan Marchessault

C · Right shotSecond LinerAge 355'9" · 185 lbCap-Rouge, Canada
cap hit$5.5Mcontract ledger →

Points by season

Career NHL points, ending with the 84-game projection (violet).

19: 59 pts591920: 47 pts4721: 44 pts442122: 66 pts6623: 57 pts572324: 69 pts6925: 56 pts562526: 31 pts3132PROJ27: 5 pts (projected 32)27

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

44/100
why 44?

Each row is one fantasy category turned into points over a full 84-game season. Add the rows up and that is his total fantasy worth.

  • proj goals13 × 3+39
  • proj assists19 × 1+19
  • PP points30 × 0.5+15
  • game-winning goals0 × 0.5+0
  • OT goals0 × 0.25+0
  • shots186 × 0.1+18.6
  • PIM24 × 0.05+1.2
  • ice time (min)1396 × 0.01+14
  • total107 pool points  ·  an elite forward season scores 242107 = 44/100

Weights follow what the average fantasy league actually counts: goals at 3× assists (the universal core), power-play points and game-winners at half weight (common extra categories), OT goals, shots and PIM small (many leagues skip them), and ice time as a quiet availability bonus. The scale: add up a whole season of those categories and compare against the best forwards in the NHL — an elite season scores about 242 points, and that is what 100 means. So 107 points is 44 out of a perfect fantasy season at his position. Defensemen and forwards are graded on separate scales because the D slot can only be filled by a defenseman. Goals and assists come from the backtested season model; the rest ride your own season-to-date pace over 84 games (14 games so far — small sample, secondary lines will move as roles settle). Hits/blocks are excluded: the free NHL feeds don't publish full-season totals, and we don't invent them.

The Situation

  • Did not play the last 5 games (healthy scratch or injury — check the club report before rostering).
  • Availability: played 10 of 15 for NSH — missed 5 games (2026-11-05, 2026-11-07, 2026-11-10, 2026-11-11, …).
  • Ironman warning: multiple absences already — treat nightly projections for this player as low-confidence.
  • Not on the NHL Status Report — recent absences were healthy scratches or coach's decisions unless a wire note says otherwise.
  • Veteran card: age 35 — minutes and back-to-back load worth watching down the stretch.

Every line is measured from our own boxscore ledger; absence reasons from the NHL Status Report and our transaction wire only — no insider guessing.

Finishing check on pace O/U ▼ −3.0

Model: goals vs shot volume vs live league position baselines; talent SH% is an empirical-Bayes shrinkage of the season…

His shooting talent is estimated by shrinking his season shooting percentage toward his league position mean in proportion to sample size (kappa pseudo-shots prior), then projecting the gap over 84 games at his current shot volume. Small samples stay near zero — the number only moves when the evidence does.

The method follows published hockey-analytics research: a shooter is judged against his own career shooting percentage, because a player's own career rate predicts his next goals better than any league average (“Expected by Whom? A Skill-Adjusted Expected Goals Model for NHL Shooters and Goaltenders,” arXiv:2511.07703). Thin careers (rookies) shrink toward the league mean for the position, and the season number is shrunk toward the player's own anchor with empirical-Bayes weights — Nandakumar & Jensen (2019), Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105202. This section is about the gap between luck and his pace, not talent.

Season stats

NHL regular-season totals, season by season. The 84-G proj line extends the current season with our public model — methodology in the caption below the table.

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMPPGPPPSHGTOI/GPGWGOTGSS%FOW%
2012-13Blue Jackets2000-1000010:570000.0%0.0%
2014-15Lightning21011000011:5700333.3%33.3%
2015-16Lightning4571118-101747012:0510818.6%48.1%
2016-17Panthers75302151-2138818016:556119315.5%45.2%
2017-18Golden Knights772748753640616017:306226810.1%43.5%
2018-19Golden Knights82253459252516018:09612789.0%37.3%
2019-20Golden Knights66222547628612017:17312359.4%42.6%
2020-21Golden Knights55182644193936017:254217610.2%46.6%
2021-22Golden Knights76303666336520017:344025112.0%43.0%
2022-23Golden Knights76282957221916017:084123412.0%37.5%
2023-24Golden Knights82422769-240817017:545226615.8%25.0%
2024-25Predators78213556-2937423017:594120610.2%25.4%
2025-26Predators62121931-183048016:42101329.1%41.9%
2026-27Predators14235-6425016:3700316.5%33.3%
84-G projPredators84131932—33—14—15:57——162——

84-G proj — current pace blended with the player's own history (recent seasons weighted heaviest), mixed with a similarity projection from historical players with comparable profiles, then adjusted for the aging curve (league-average peak at 27; decline after) — at age 35 that is -7%. Dashes mark stats the model doesn't project.

Comparable player-seasons: Teddy Blueger (2025-25) · Alexander Kerfoot (2025-25) · Kasperi Kapanen (2025-25) · Barrett Hayton (2025-25) · Nick Paul (2025-25).

Goals — with the line

Lines shown for the 8 of 10 recent games inside the league's tracking archive.

TimeSTTypeGoalHis lineOpp ice
Oct 27 · vs NYI
P2 09:42PPAssistForsberg (Marchessault, Stamkos) → 1-3
Forsberg · Marchessault · O'Reilly · Stamkos
Josi
Horvat · Cizikas
Pelech · Pulock
Varlamov (G)
Oct 25 · vs COL
P2 17:29PPAssistO'Reilly (Marchessault, Forsberg) → 5-0
Forsberg · Marchessault · O'Reilly · Stamkos
Josi
Svechkov · O'Connor
Toews · Makar
Wedgewood (G)
Oct 17 · vs STL
P1 08:40PPGoalMarchessault → 1-1
Stamkos · O'Reilly · Marchessault · Forsberg
Josi
Buchnevich · Thomas
Parayko · Broberg
Binnington (G)
Oct 15 · vs SJS
P3 09:05PPAssistO'Reilly (Marchessault, Josi) → 1-2
Stamkos · O'Reilly · Marchessault · Forsberg
Josi
Wennberg · Graf
Orlov · Kesselring
Nedeljkovic (G)

Line mates

Teammates sharing the most ice time with Jonathan over the last 10 games — reconstructed shift-by-shift from the NHL's official timing feed (goalies excluded).

PlayerShared minGP
Roman Josi NSH7710
Ryan O'Reilly NSH6010
Steven Stamkos NSH5910
Filip Forsberg NSH5210
Mavrik Bourque NSH476

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats