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Winnipeg Jets

Jacob Bryson

#78Defenseman5'9"176 lb

0.0 in 2 days
2025-26 regular season
50
GP
2
G
6
A
8
P
22
SOG
9.1% SH
10:52
TOI/GP

D · WPG · NHL id 8480196

Jacob Bryson has played 50 games for the Winnipeg Jets in 2025-26, scoring 2 goals and 6 assists (8 points) on 22 shots while averaging 10:52 a night (10:33 at even strength, 0:00 on the power play and 0:16 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 45% of his 5v5 minutes with Haydn Fleury and 30% with Gabriel Vilardi over the last 10 games, and the Jets have controlled 47% of shot attempts with Bryson on the ice (21-30 in goals, 39% offensive-zone starts). In the Jets' most recent game against UTA he was on D2 with Dylan Samberg and off the power play. He is shooting 9.1% this season against 4.0% across the 304 games in our data.

Right now

From the Apr 14 game vs UTA, detected from shift data

Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
PK1D
Dylan Samberg
Last 5: D3 · D3 · D3 · D3 · D3

Deployment timeline

2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes

Usage: 8 games, 12:59 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 0 line changes.

PPLine333333330m3m7m10m13m17m20mMar 25Mar 27Mar 28Mar 31Apr 2Apr 4Apr 6Apr 9Apr 11Apr 13
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
8 games shown, 12:59 average. Line and PP unit come from where the player's ice time ranks among his teammates that night.

NHL EDGE tracking

2025-26 percentiles among skaters at his position

Source: NHL EDGE
Top speed66th6722.1 mph
Bursts 20+ mph53rd5425
Hardest shot28th2986.3 mph
Offensive-zone time35th3540.7%
Distance skated35th3579.5 mi
High-danger SOG48th493
Percentile among position peers│ tick = 3-season weighted

Season-level NHL EDGE puck and player tracking, refreshed nightly. The percentile is the league rank among skaters this season; the label at the right is the raw value.

Shot map

2025-26 · 60 attempts, 22 on goal, 2 goals

Shot map, OPP at WPG: 60 attempts, 22 on goal, 2 goals, 1.31 expected goals; best chance Jacob Bryson at 0.39 xG.

  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • Goal
  • Shot on goal
  • Missed
  • Blocked
Every attempt (goals, shots, misses and blocks), attacking toward the right (or the top on phones).

Luck

2025-26 · 50 GP · 8 points vs 6.0 expected

Luck Meter →
Hold

Last 20 games: -9. Positive means running hot (sell), negative running cold (buy).

9.1%
98.4
36.4%
G vs xG
2 / 1.2
  • • Role rose over the last 10 games (TOI up 2:04 a game, 2 promotion events): some of the heat may be real.
Goals against expected goals
00.511.52+0.8goals above expected0.7σ10/94/14
  • Actual goals
  • Expected
  • ±1σ
  • Above expected
  • Below expected

2025-26 regular season. Rank is among all qualified players; the bar is his percentile among defencemen. Each stat links to its explainer.

Fantasy box score

  • Games played50
  • Goals2578th
  • Assists6573rd
  • Points8597th
  • Power-play points0437th
  • Shorthanded points0227th
  • Shots on goal22681st
  • Hits14668th
  • Blocked shots29467th
  • Plus/minus−9540th
  • Penalty minutes10608th
  • Faceoffs won0451st

Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)

Transition, turnovers & faceoffs

Usage

Special teams & discipline

Luck & trend

NHL EDGE tracking

Unranked rows are below the sample minimum (20 GP, 200 five-on-five minutes, 100 draws or 10 goalie games).

Beyond the box score

2025-26 regular season · 42 of 50 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)

MethodLeaders
−0.035
Season net
−0.31xG

5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.

MethodLeaders
Per 60
0.23
Attempts
2
0.002

5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.

MethodLeaders
Season
+0.00G
Per 60
+0.000
Drawn / taken
5 / 5minors

MethodLeaders
50.6%
53.6%
51.1%
Transition CF/60
2.6
Turnovers won/60
19.2
Turnovers lost/60
20.9

5-on-5 while he is on the ice.

MethodLeaders
  • More of his shots than the league
  • Fewer
22 shots on goal, 2 goals, all situations
AreaHis shareLeagueG
Center Point32%9%0
L Point23%5%1
Low Slot9%23%1
R Point18%6%0
R Circle0%12%0
High Slot0%7%0
Outside L0%4%0

Role changes

Notable promotions, demotions and ice-time swings from Line Watch

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How his goals happened

3 goals since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation

Method
Goal anatomy
GamePlayEntryPassesShot mphNotesReplay
Jan 12, 2026 vs FLACycle—08.8—
Nov 21, 2025 vs CHICycle—210.5—
Mar 9, 2024 vs EDMOdd-man rushcarry043.84-on-3

* includes a royal-road (cross-slot) pass. Derived from NHL EDGE puck and player tracking.

Linemates

2025-26 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Bryson

TeammatePosGPShareCF% togetherGF% togetherCF% Bryson apartCF% mate apart
Owen PowerD18125:1624%52.1%45% (5-6)48.1% 65:1959.0% 170:27
Haydn FleuryD12108:5521%41.3%27% (4-11)65.3% 41:0338.5% 32:58
Jack QuinnRW3298:0619%40.6%20% (1-4)49.5% 228:2948.1% 329:55
Zach MetsaD1186:2916%37.3%100% (3-0)50.0% 15:5339.4% 22:20
Ryan McLeodC3082:4416%42.1%33% (4-8)47.0% 222:3748.8% 306:00
Tage ThompsonC2982:0416%41.7%43% (3-4)47.8% 226:3850.8% 341:14
Peyton KrebsC2880:3015%52.8%100% (2-0)47.0% 209:1946.7% 280:44
Noah OstlundC2580:3015%49.0%67% (4-2)45.1% 178:3751.4% 202:37
Josh DoanRW3280:0415%58.4%50% (5-5)42.4% 250:0550.8% 326:10
Beck MalenstynLW2978:3315%46.1%67% (4-2)46.4% 225:2742.9% 183:56
Isak RosenRW2577:5215%44.5%38% (3-5)45.9% 204:3542.9% 170:15
Alex TuchRW2672:3914%47.8%63% (5-3)45.9% 207:5853.4% 278:34
Zach BensonLW2060:0111%51.5%67% (2-1)49.4% 138:5951.2% 195:20
Jonathan ToewsC1555:5611%48.4%40% (2-3)47.8% 127:0249.2% 110:18

Game log

50 games in 2025-26, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Apr 14@ UTAL 3-5000-11022—17:0412:47—4:17
Apr 13@ VGKL 2-6000-12002—13:2110:27—2:54
Apr 11vs PHIL 1-7000-20000—14:2514:25——
Apr 9@ STLW 3-2011+21010—11:1411:14——
Apr 6vs SEAW 6-200000001—15:2815:28——
Apr 4@ CBJW 2-100001000—12:0812:08——
Mar 31@ CHIW 4-3000-20011—10:4710:47——
Mar 28@ COLW 4-201100001—9:269:26——
Mar 19@ BOSL 1-6000-22000—11:4911:49——
Mar 17vs NSHOTL 3-4000-10000—9:249:23——
Mar 15vs STLW 3-2000+20000—11:5311:45——
Mar 14vs COLW 3-1000+10201—12:2812:28——
Mar 12vs NYRL 3-6011-12000—13:1212:45—0:27
Mar 10vs ANAL 1-4000-20001—13:1813:18——
Mar 7vs VANW 3-2000-11010—15:5815:26——
Feb 5vs PITL 2-5000-10000—4:194:19——
Feb 3@ TBLOTL 3-400001000—11:0110:50——
Jan 22@ MTLW 4-2000+10002—6:176:17——
Jan 20@ NSHW 5-300000002—8:368:29——
Jan 19@ CARL 1-200001011—8:008:00——

Season splits by strength

2025-26 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations50543:0910:5246254146.1%45.3%212269223241%20.921.437%
Even strength50527:4910:3345550947.2%46.1%208258213041%20.419.639%
5v550525:4210:3145250647.2%46.1%207255213041%20.319.439%
Power play10:030:0300——0000—0.00.0—
Penalty kill1013:381:222286.7%5.3%110010%0.01.60%
4v452:070:253350.0%50.0%1300—0.10.250%
4v51013:381:222286.7%5.3%110010%0.01.60%

Career by season

Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2025-26WPG, BUF50268-910229.1%142910:52
2024-25BUF48077-910200.0%155114:24
2023-24BUF36178+58156.7%174014:41
2022-23BUF59189-248273.7%346914:35
2021-22BUF731910-912432.3%557318:20
2020-21BUF38189-112244.2%324319:03

Jacob Bryson news

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On-ice and deployment numbers are derived by Edgehalla from NHL play-by-play and shift data. Tracking percentiles are from NHL EDGE. Data updates after every game.