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Dakota Joshua

#81 · Centre · Toronto Maple Leafs

Born May 15, 1996 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA (age 30) · 6'3", 218 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 128th overall in 2014 by TOR (round 5)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2021-22. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Ryan Dzingel SJS · 8 P in 32 GP Kole Lind SEA · 8 P in 23 GP Noel Acciari FLA · 8 P in 20 GP Sasha Chmelevski SJS · 8 P in 19 GP Brad Richardson VAN · 8 P in 44 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

01020302020-21: 1 points120-212021-22: 8 points821-222022-23: 23 points2322-232023-24: 32 points3223-242024-25: 14 points1424-252025-26: 18 points1825-26

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2020-21 STL 12 1 0 1 -3 7 9 23 0.08 $793K
2021-22 STL 30 3 5 8 6 16 31 77 0.27 $750K
2022-23 VAN 79 11 12 23 -16 60 71 222 0.29 $825K
2023-24 VAN 63 18 14 32 19 60 84 244 0.51 $825K
2024-25 VAN 57 7 7 14 -13 38 52 193 0.25 $3.25M
2025-26 TOR 55 10 8 18 -2 49 52 195 0.33 $3.25M
6 seasons Career 296 50 46 96 -9 230 299 954 0.32

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2021-22 STL 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
2023-24 VAN 13 4 4 8 1 10 9 74 0.62
2 seasons Playoffs 14 4 4 8 1 10 9 76 0.57

2021-22 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
30 3 5 8 6 16 31 77 0.27 9.7 8:30

Contract

$750KCap hitends in 2022
$94KCap dollars per point8 points in 30 games
$200KCap dollars per goal above replacement3.8 goals above replacement
$3.4MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$2.7MValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 716 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Signed by the St. Louis Blues on Jul 31, 2021, as a new contract: 1 year and $750K, beginning in 2021-22. It runs through 2021-22, so this is its last season.

Season Cap hit Base salary Signing bonus Performance bonuses Paid in all Clause
2021-22 $750K $750K $0 $750K

Each season of the contract, with this one marked. The cap hit is the same every year; what he is paid is not. The pay is as written when the contract was recorded in October 2024, so a later change, such as the rise in the lowest salary for 2026-27, is not shown.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
Jun 27, 2024 Vancouver Canucks Extension 2024-25 to 2027-28 4 $13M $3.25M
Jul 13, 2022 Vancouver Canucks New contract 2022-23 to 2023-24 2 $1.65M $825K
Jul 31, 2021 St. Louis Blues New contract 2021-22 to 2021-22 1 $750K $750K
Jul 12, 2019 St. Louis Blues Entry-level 2019-20 to 2020-21 2 $1.85M $793K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2021-22 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2021-22 playoff analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

-0.2Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.2Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.1Even-strength defence-0.1Power play0.0Penalty kill+0.0Penalties+0.0

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. A playoff run is too short to rank anyone on. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

02468102020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

50.0Corsi for %5 attempts for, 5 against
-2.3CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
14.8Expected goals for %0.1 expected for, 0.5 against
-25.0xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
37.5Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
0.0Goals for %0 for, 0 against
100.0PDO0.0% shooting + 100.0% saves
1Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tyler Bozak · Dakota Joshua · Alexey Toropchenko16:3442.910.70-0
Brayden Schenn · Ivan Barbashev · Dakota Joshua10:390.00.00-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took in these playoffs, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 23, 2022 @ ARI W 5-4 (OT) 0 1 1 2 0 6 1 11:35
Apr 21, 2022 @ SJS W 3-1 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 09:20
Apr 19, 2022 vs BOS L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 07:35
Apr 17, 2022 @ NSH W 8-3 0 1 1 0 2 4 4 12:50
Apr 16, 2022 vs MIN W 6-5 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 08:32
Mar 5, 2022 @ NYI L 1-2 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 07:24
Mar 2, 2022 @ NYR L 3-5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 06:20
Feb 27, 2022 @ CHI W 4-0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 09:00
Feb 17, 2022 @ MTL L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 05:18
Feb 15, 2022 @ OTT W 5-2 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 08:23
Feb 12, 2022 vs CHI W 5-1 1 0 1 1 0 1 3 07:22
Feb 10, 2022 vs NJD L 4-7 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 07:22
Jan 15, 2022 vs TOR L 5-6 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 07:51
Dec 19, 2021 @ WPG L 2-4 0 0 0 0 5 1 1 07:01
Dec 17, 2021 vs DAL W 4-1 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 11:14
Dec 14, 2021 @ DAL W 4-1 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 08:23
Dec 12, 2021 vs ANA L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 08:03
Dec 11, 2021 vs MTL W 4-1 1 0 1 1 0 3 3 11:31
Dec 9, 2021 vs DET W 6-2 0 2 2 3 0 1 1 09:22
Dec 7, 2021 vs FLA W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10:40
Dec 4, 2021 @ FLA L 3-4 (SO) 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 08:43
Dec 2, 2021 @ TBL L 2-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 05:56
Nov 30, 2021 vs TBL W 4-3 (SO) 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 06:25
Nov 27, 2021 vs CBJ W 6-3 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 10:52
Nov 14, 2021 vs EDM L 4-5 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 06:40
Nov 13, 2021 @ CAR L 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 07:01
Nov 11, 2021 vs NSH L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 0 5 1 3 09:45
Nov 3, 2021 @ LAK L 2-3 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 08:56
Oct 30, 2021 vs CHI W 1-0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 08:39
Oct 28, 2021 vs COL L 3-4 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 06:44