xJawn NHL expected goals

← Players · ← 2025-26 season

COL Nathan MacKinnon

C · career · 13 seasons · value in goals above league average per 60 minutes of ice

GAA/60 by season

How to read this chart

One point per season: GAA/60, the accounting sum of that season's 5v5 value — chances created (Off xG-RAPM) + chances suppressed (Def xG-RAPM) + finishing above expectation — in goals above league average per 60 minutes of 5v5, power-play and penalty-kill ice. The players table shows the same accounting as a season total, which keeps ice time inside the number; this page divides it out, because comparing a player to himself across seasons should not be driven by how long each season was. The chart opens on the 3-season weighted average: each point is the ice-time-weighted average of the player's GAA/60 over that season and the two before it. A single season of RAPM is noisy (year-over-year correlation ≈ 0.5, the defensive half worse), so the smoothed line is the honest read — it answers "is this level real?" rather than "what did one 1,000-minute sample say?". The Single season toggle shows the raw per-season number instead, swings and all.

The grey bands are the league that same season, in the same view: the brighter fill is the middle half of skaters (25th–75th percentile), the faint fill the 5th–95th, the dashed line the league median — all over skaters with at least 300 minutes of 5v5 ice time (window-summed in the 3-season view). Where a point sits inside the bands is its percentile; the label above it makes it exact. Hollow points fall under the floor — they draw (the line is the career) but get no rank.

The vertical axis is GAA/60 — a linear goals-above-league-average scale, so heights add up. It opens on just the orange net line over the bands. Click Off / Def / Fin in the legend to stack that piece in: chances created and finishing (when positive) fill up from the dotted zero line, chances against fill down when a player is bleeding them, and the net line is their sum. Toggle each one independently — the line says how good, the stack says where the value came from.

Season by season

SeasonTeamTOIOffDefFinGAA/60GAA (goals)Percentile
2025-26COL1,518 +0.54-0.05+0.11 +0.81+25.6 100th
2024-25COL1,468 +0.53-0.01+0.10 +0.78+23.6 100th
2023-24COL1,601 +0.44+0.02+0.09 +0.73+24.6 100th
2022-23COL1,317 +0.30-0.13+0.10 +0.47+12.7 96th
2021-22COL1,367 +0.10-0.06+0.10 +0.36+9.9 97th
2020-21COL898 +0.11+0.03+0.08 +0.44+8.2 98th
2019-20COL1,266 +0.17+0.00+0.09 +0.47+12.4 99th
2018-19COL1,570 +0.09-0.09+0.09 +0.33+10.7 98th
2017-18COL1,194 +0.08-0.05+0.08 +0.18+4.6 90th
2016-17COL1,164 +0.08-0.04+0.07 +0.20+5.1 93rd
2015-16COL1,028 +0.05-0.06+0.08 +0.20+4.2 91st
2014-15COL861 +0.09-0.03+0.08 +0.26+4.3 95th
2013-14COL1,265 -0.03-0.25+0.08 -0.08-2.0 40th

The table is always the raw single-season record — the ledger the 3-season line smooths. TOI is 5v5 minutes. GAA (goals) is the rate × that season's ice time — the season's total value in goals. Percentile is against that season's qualified skaters, single season.

GAA/60 comes from value artifact value__f4dc1877 (accounting layer, docs/player-value.md): single-season xG-RAPM plus the modeled finishing rating over the player's own 5v5 ice time; the 3-season view is the trailing ice-time-weighted average of those. It is a separate surface from the box-score xG model badged in the footer.