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Vegas Golden Knights

Jaycob Megna

#88Defenseman6'6"216 lb

0.0 in 2 days
2025-26 regular season
4
GP
0
G
0
A
0
P
1
SOG
0.0% SH
10:37
TOI/GP

D · VGK · NHL id 8477034

Jaycob Megna has played 4 games for the Vegas Golden Knights in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 0 assists (0 points) on 1 shots while averaging 10:37 a night (10:22 at even strength, 0:00 on the power play and 0:13 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 49% of his 5v5 minutes with Zach Whitecloud and 37% with Pavel Dorofeyev over the last 4 games, and the Golden Knights have controlled 46% of shot attempts with Megna on the ice (0-5 in goals, 22% offensive-zone starts). In the Golden Knights' most recent game against PHI he was on D3 with Ben Hutton and off the power play.

Right now

From the Jan 19 game vs PHI, detected from shift data

Pair
D3
Ben Hutton
Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
No PK unit
Last 4: D3 · D3 · D3 · D3

Deployment timeline

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

Usage: 4 games, 10:35 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 0 line changes.

PPLine33330m3m7m10m13m17mJan 2Jan 4Jan 6Jan 8Jan 10Jan 11Jan 14Jan 15Jan 17Jan 19
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
4 games shown, 10:35 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

Only 4 GP in 2025-26: NHL EDGE percentiles are noisy before about 15-20 games.

Top speed3rd319.6 mph
Bursts 20+ mph1st00
Hardest shot1st267.5 mph
Offensive-zone time19th2039.6%
Distance skated8th95.9 mi
High-danger SOG1st00
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 · 1 attempts, 1 on goal, 0 goals

Shot map, OPP at VGK: 1 attempts, 1 on goal, 0 goals, 0.03 expected goals; best chance Jaycob Megna at 0.03 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).

Puck luck

2025-26 · cumulative goals against expected goals from his own shots

00.20.40.60.81-0.0goals below expected-0.2σJan 2Jan 19
  • Actual goals
  • Expected
  • ±1σ
  • Above expected
  • Below expected

Player analytics

Compare with another player →

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

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

2023-24 regular season · 40 of 44 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)

MethodLeaders
−0.036
Season net
−0.41xG

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

MethodLeaders
Per 60
0.09
Attempts
1
0.004

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

MethodLeaders
Season
−1.94G
Per 60
−0.151
Drawn / taken
1 / 11minors

MethodLeaders
38.7%
43.0%
38.2%
Transition CF/60
4.6
Turnovers won/60
15.7
Turnovers lost/60
16.3

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

MethodLeaders
  • More of his shots than the league
  • Fewer
28 shots on goal, 0 goals, all situations
AreaHis shareLeagueG
R Point39%6%0
L Point32%6%0
Low Slot4%22%0
R Circle0%12%0
L Circle4%13%0
Outside L0%5%0
R Net Side0%4%0

Role changes

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

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Linemates

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

TeammatePosGPShareCF% togetherGF% togetherCF% Megna apartCF% mate apart
Zach WhitecloudD320:0849%37.9%0% (0-2)54.5% 10:2062.9% 37:16
Pavel DorofeyevLW415:2637%47.1%0% (0-2)46.2% 26:0359.6% 33:12
Ben HuttonD315:1837%45.0%0% (0-3)78.6% 11:3050.0% 23:31
Mitch MarnerC412:1930%62.5%— (0-0)40.0% 29:1047.1% 40:13
Tomas HertlC411:5229%26.7%0% (0-2)53.7% 29:3767.8% 37:58
Keegan KolesarRW410:3125%43.8%— (0-0)47.5% 30:5857.4% 33:26
Colton SissonsC38:1620%60.0%— (0-0)36.7% 22:1250.0% 24:00
Brandon SaadLW27:2718%50.0%0% (0-1)42.3% 17:5738.1% 16:53
Braeden BowmanRW37:1417%42.9%0% (0-3)63.0% 19:3462.8% 29:29
Jack EichelC37:0417%36.4%0% (0-2)51.2% 29:2137.1% 35:03
Reilly SmithRW26:5217%30.0%0% (0-1)80.0% 14:5244.8% 15:43
Mark StoneRW46:4716%44.4%0% (0-1)46.8% 34:4251.5% 49:24
Cole ReinhardtLW26:4116%54.5%— (0-0)33.3% 19:0155.6% 13:38
Brett HowdenC36:3616%50.0%— (0-0)40.0% 23:5247.5% 31:52

Game log

4 games in 2025-26, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Jan 19vs PHIL 1-200001010—11:0111:01——
Jan 6@ WPGW 4-3000-20021—5:045:04——
Jan 4@ CHIOTL 2-3000-10220—15:4114:41—0:51
Jan 2@ STLL 3-4000-20010—10:4310:43——

Season splits by strength

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

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations442:2910:37263145.6%43.5%1114050%1.22.420%
Even strength441:2910:22263046.4%44.4%1113050%1.22.322%
5v5441:2910:22263046.4%44.4%1113050%1.22.322%
Penalty kill10:510:5100——0000—0.00.00%

Career by season

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

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2025-26VGK4000-5210.0%6110:37
2024-25FLA8000-2250.0%3916:06
2023-24CHI44022-1522280.0%608717:31
2022-23SEA, SJS5411112+321561.8%866618:52
2021-22SJS44268-116405.0%719219:07
2018-19ANA28134-112313.2%322914:32
2017-18ANA14011-4270.0%63015:43

Jaycob Megna 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.