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Jake Middleton

Position	Left Defense	Current Team	Minnesota Wild
Shoots	Left	Current Contract	4 years ($4.4M CapHit)
Height	6'3"	Expires	2028-29
Weight (lbs)	219	Expiry Age (Jun 30)	33
Age (DOB)	30 (Jan 2, 1996)	Expiry Status	UFA
Drafted	2014, Round 7, Overall 210 (LAK)

Date	Team	Transaction
Dec 20, 2025	Minnesota Wild	Activated from IR
Dec 11, 2025	Minnesota Wild	Placed on IR
Jan 7, 2025	Minnesota Wild	Activated from LTIR
Dec 13, 2024	Minnesota Wild	Placed on LTIR
Jul 1, 2024	Minnesota Wild	Signed 4 years @ $4.350M AAV starting in 2025-26
Jul 6, 2022	Minnesota Wild	Signed 3 years @ $2.450M AAV starting in 2022-23
Oct 5, 2020	San Jose Sharks	Signed 2 years @ $725K AAV starting in 2020-21
Sep 7, 2017	San Jose Sharks	Signed to an entry level contract.

Status History Coming Soon

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About Player Cards

Player cards present an infographic of a players performance using a series of Player Archetypes developed for Puckalytics.com and TheStanleyCap.com. The boxes in the rink image show the archetype ratings for the season specified in the card while the graphs to the right show the five-year trends for those archetypes.

Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in punk. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI, Skating (even strength) and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary

Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).
5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.

Data Sources

Salary data is from TheStanleyCap.com
Shooting and Skating (except Sh%AE) are from NHL Edge
Other statistics are from Puckalytics.com and derived from data from NHL.com

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Read Introducing Player Archetypes on HockeyAnalysis.com for more details on archetype calculations.

Core Archetypes

Season	Team(s)	GP	Producer	Playmaker	Shooter	Sniper	Rebound	Rush	Skating	Defend
2018-19	SJS	3	4.39	9.65	-0.96	-	-	-1.03	-	-11.47
2019-20	SJS	10	2.75	2.43	-0.85	-1.33	-	-0.88	-	-1.52
2020-21	SJS	1	-1.63	-1.40	-0.83	-1.60	-	-0.81	-	-40.06
2021-22	MIN, SJS	66	-1.22	-1.55	-0.21	0.36	-	1.54	-0.53	0.63
2022-23	MIN	79	-0.58	-0.47	-0.53	-0.14	-	0.81	-0.86	0.48
2023-24	MIN	80	0.15	-0.12	0.25	0.23	-	0.71	-0.47	-1.42
2024-25	MIN	67	0.25	-0.56	1.57	1.34	-	-0.68	-0.49	0.12
2025-26	MIN	75	-0.36	-0.15	-0.59	-0.78	-	-0.70	-0.11	0.49

Situational and Secondary Archetypes

Season	Team(s)	GP	5v5 TOI	5v4 TOI	4v5 TOI	Possession	Drive	Suppress	Faceoffs
2018-19	SJS	3	-3.78	-1.74	-1.76	1.33	3.06	0.74	-
2019-20	SJS	10	-3.16	-1.78	-1.44	1.05	0.49	-1.01	-
2020-21	SJS	1	-3.99	-1.66	-2.07	-1.58	0.26	3.56	-
2021-22	MIN, SJS	66	0.05	-1.37	-0.14	0.30	0.58	0.26	-
2022-23	MIN	79	0.18	-1.32	0.19	-0.74	-0.65	0.45	-
2023-24	MIN	80	0.58	-1.45	0.30	-1.32	-0.52	1.37	-
2024-25	MIN	67	1.20	-1.42	0.80	-1.14	-0.40	1.45	-
2025-26	MIN	75	-0.71	-1.50	0.50	-0.71	-0.73	0.39	-

About Archetypes

Player archetypes are a look at a players strengths and weaknesses in his game when compared to other players around the leeague. Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in punk. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary

Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).

Read Introducing Player Archetypes on HockeyAnalysis.com for more details on archetype calculations.

Data Sources

Salary data is from TheStanleyCap.com
Shooting and Skating (except Sh%AE) are from NHL Edge
Other statistics are from Puckalytics.com and derived from data from NHL.com

5v5 Individual Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	G/60	A/60	Pts/60	xG/60	GAE/60	Sh%	xSh%	Sh%AE	%SA Rush	%SA Reb.
2018-19	SJS	3	28:36	0.00	2.10	2.10	0.04	-0.04	-	-	-	0.00	0.00
2019-20	SJS	10	98:03	0.00	1.22	1.22	0.15	-0.15	0.00	3.05	-3.05	0.00	8.33
2020-21	SJS	1	6:10	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.39	-0.39	0.00	4.00	-4.00	0.00	0.00
2021-22	MIN	21	333:40	0.18	0.54	0.72	0.17	0.01	5.26	5.04	0.22	0.00	3.70
2021-22	SJS	45	729:02	0.16	0.25	0.41	0.13	0.03	4.65	3.74	0.91	3.70	3.70
2021-22	MIN, SJS	66	1062:42	0.17	0.34	0.51	0.14	0.02	4.84	4.14	0.70	2.47	3.70
2022-23	MIN	79	1269:40	0.14	0.52	0.66	0.16	-0.02	4.48	5.04	-0.56	1.89	4.72
2023-24	MIN	80	1339:03	0.22	0.67	0.90	0.19	0.03	6.33	5.40	0.93	1.80	8.11
2024-25	MIN	67	1278:42	0.38	0.52	0.89	0.24	0.13	8.60	5.58	3.02	0.00	6.02
2025-26	MIN	75	1126:46	0.11	0.64	0.75	0.17	-0.06	3.39	5.46	-2.07	0.00	5.56

5v5 On Ice Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	SAF/60	GF/60	xGF/60	SAA/60	GA/60	xGA/60	GF%	xGF%	xGF Rel	xGA Rel	xGF% Rel
2018-19	SJS	3	28:36	54.55	4.20	3.84	35.66	6.29	4.65	40.00	45.20	1.09	2.40	-9.74
2019-20	SJS	10	98:03	47.12	1.84	3.12	35.49	3.06	2.52	37.50	55.30	0.51	0.11	3.37
2020-21	SJS	1	6:10	48.65	9.73	2.41	68.11	29.19	5.48	25.00	30.55	-0.41	2.86	-21.28
2021-22	MIN	21	333:40	37.40	3.42	2.24	42.08	2.52	2.30	57.58	49.40	-0.44	0.35	-8.52
2021-22	SJS	45	729:02	40.00	2.14	2.44	43.78	2.22	2.53	49.06	49.12	0.38	-0.06	4.85
2021-22	MIN, SJS	66	1062:42	39.18	2.54	2.38	43.25	2.31	2.46	52.33	49.20	0.12	0.07	0.62
2022-23	MIN	79	1269:40	39.84	2.17	2.35	42.06	1.98	2.46	52.27	48.84	-0.15	-0.01	-1.45
2023-24	MIN	80	1339:03	38.49	2.24	2.19	43.60	3.09	2.35	42.02	48.18	-0.12	0.29	-4.55
2024-25	MIN	67	1278:42	37.91	2.21	2.11	45.23	2.11	2.44	51.09	46.45	0.02	0.31	-3.16
2025-26	MIN	75	1126:46	39.19	2.02	2.45	43.93	2.29	2.56	46.91	48.93	-0.19	-0.13	-0.61

NHL Edge Stats

		Skating				Shooting					Zone Time
Season	GP	Top Speed	Bursts>20/mi	Avg. Speed	ES Avg. Speed	Top Speed	Avg. Speed	%Long Range	%Mid Range	%High Danger	ES DZ%	ES NZ%	ES OZ%
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Legend

Percentile 0-25

Percentile 25-50

Percentile 50-75

Percentile 75-100

Forwards are compared with forwards and Defensemen are are compared with Defensemen.

5v5 Defense Pairs

Season

Season	Teammate	Team	TOI	GF/60	GA/60	GF%	xGF/60	xGA/60	xGF%	xGF Rel	xGA Rel	xGF% Rel
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Glossary

Type	Statistic	Definition
Individual	G/60	Goals Against per 60 minutes.
Individual	A/60	Assists per 60 minutes.
Individual	Pts/60	Points per 60 minutes.
Individual	xG/60	Expected Goals per 60 minutes.
Individual	GAE/60	Goals Above Expected (G/60 - xG/60).
Individual	Sh%	Shooting Percentage.
Individual	xSh%	Expected Shooting Percentage.
Individual	Sh%AE	Shooting percentage above expected (Sh% - xSh%).
Individual	%SA Rush	Percentage of shot attempts determined to be on the rush.
Individual	%SA Reb.	Percentage of shot attempts determined to be from rebounds.
On Ice	SAF/60	Shot Attempts For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	GF/60	Goals For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	xGF/60	Expected Goals For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	SAA/60	Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	GA/60	Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	xGA/60	Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	GF%	Goals For Percentage = Goals For / (Goals For + Goals Against)
On Ice	xGF%	Expected Goals For Percentage = Expected Goals For / (Expected Goals For + Expected Goals Against)
On Ice	xGF Rel	xGF/60 when On Ice - xGF/60 when not On Ice.
On Ice	xGA Rel	xGA/60 when On Ice - xGA/60 when not On Ice (lower is better).
On Ice	xGF% Rel	xGF% when On Ice - xGF% when not On Ice.

Individual and On-Ice stats from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16). NHL Edge Stats from edge.nhl.com (starting in 2021-22). Edge statistic definitions can be found at the Edge Stats Glossary.

News and Opinions

Jake Middleton can't come back next season after terrible playoff performance at Gone Puck Wild (Fri May 15, 2026)
Jake Middleton Has To Recover From A Slow Start at Hockey Wilderness (Thu Oct 23, 2025)
Wild 2024-25 Report Cards: Jake Middleton & Jared Spurgeon at The Hockey Writers (Mon Aug 18, 2025)
How Does Jake Middleton Fit In the Wild's Evolving D-Core? at Hockey Wilderness (Thu Jul 31, 2025)
The State of Hockey... In the State of Hockey (Week Ten/Eleven Edition) at Gone Puck Wild (Fri Dec 27, 2024)
The State of Hockey... In the State of Hockey (Week Four Edition) at Gone Puck Wild (Wed Nov 6, 2024)

Current Contract

Jake Middleton signed a $17,400,000 4-year contract with the Minnesota Wild and General Manager Bill Guerin on July 1, 2024 with an AAV of $4,350,000. This contract will start in 2025-26 and end after the 2028-29 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 4.55% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (UFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Clause	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2025-26	29	NMC	$4,350,000	$4,350,000	-	-	$4,600,000	$4,600,000	$4,600,000	UFA
2026-27	30	M-NTC	$4,350,000	$4,350,000	-	-	$3,450,000	$3,450,000	$3,450,000	UFA
2027-28	31	M-NTC	$4,350,000	$4,350,000	-	-	$4,600,000	$4,600,000	$4,600,000	UFA
2028-29	32	M-NTC	$4,350,000	$4,350,000	-	-	$4,750,000	$4,750,000	$4,750,000	UFA
Total					-	-	$17,400,000	$17,400,000	$17,400,000

Signed: July 1, 2024

Team: Minnesota Wild

GM: Bill Guerin

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 4.55

Clause: Starting in 2026-27 player can submit a 15 team no trade list.

Previous Contracts (show) (hide)

Jake Middleton signed a $7,350,000 3-year contract with the Minnesota Wild and General Manager Bill Guerin on July 6, 2022 with an AAV of $2,450,000. This contract will start in 2022-23 and end after the 2024-25 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 2.97% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2022-23	26	$2,450,000	$2,450,000	-	-	$2,800,000	$2,800,000	$2,800,000	RFA-arb
2023-24	27	$2,450,000	$2,450,000	-	-	$2,500,000	$2,500,000	$2,500,000	UFA
2024-25	28	$2,450,000	$2,450,000	-	-	$2,050,000	$2,050,000	$2,050,000	UFA
Total				-	-	$7,350,000	$7,350,000	$7,350,000

Signed: July 6, 2022

Team: Minnesota Wild

GM: Bill Guerin

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 2.97

Jake Middleton signed a $1,450,000 2-year contract with the San Jose Sharks and General Manager Doug Wilson on October 5, 2020 with an AAV of $725,000. This contract will start in 2020-21 and end after the 2021-22 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 0.89% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2020-21	24	$725,000	$725,000	-	-	$700,000	$700,000	$225,000	RFA-arb
2021-22	25	$725,000	$725,000	-	-	$750,000	$750,000	$225,000	RFA-arb
Total				-	-	$1,450,000	$1,450,000	$450,000

Signed: Oct 5, 2020

Team: San Jose Sharks

GM: Doug Wilson

Exp. Status: RFA-arb

Cap %: 0.89

Note: Guaranteed minimum salary in 2021-22 is $350,000.

Jake Middleton signed a $2,205,000 3-year contract with the San Jose Sharks and General Manager Doug Wilson on September 7, 2017 with an AAV of $735,000. This contract will start in 2017-18 and end after the 2019-20 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 0.98% of the salary cap.

Entry Level Contract ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2017-18	21	$735,000	$735,000	-	$65,000	$650,000	$715,000	$70,000	ELC
2018-19	22	$735,000	$735,000	-	$70,000	$650,000	$720,000	$70,000	ELC
2019-20	23	$735,000	$735,000	-	$70,000	$700,000	$770,000	$70,000	ELC
Total				-	$205,000	$2,000,000	$2,205,000	$210,000

Signed: Sep 7, 2017

Team: San Jose Sharks

GM: Doug Wilson

Exp. Status: RFA-arb

Career Statistics

			Regular Season									Playoffs
Season	League	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	Shots	Sh%	TOI/G	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	Shots	Sh%	TOI/G
2010-11	Minor-ON	Huron-Perth MM	4	0	0	0						1
2011-12	ON-Jr.B	Stratford	4	0	3	3
2011-12	Minor-ON	Huron-Perth Mid.	2	1	0	1		4
2011-12	Minor-ON	Huron-Perth MM	25	7	16	23		26				8	1	7	8		16
2012-13	OHL	Ottawa	15	1	3	4	-16	18
2012-13	OHL	Owen Sound	14	0	1	1	+3	7
2013-14	OHL	Ottawa	65	2	21	23	-21	64
2014-15	OHL	Ottawa	64	4	23	27	+11	62				6	1	1	2	-5	4
2015-16	OHL	Ottawa	68	7	24	31	+11	68	130	540.0		5		2	2	-3	2	8	0.0
2015-16	ECHL	Manchester	2	0	1	1	+1					5				-2
2016-17	AHL	San Jose Barracuda	50	1	8	9	+11	56				13		4	4	+2	10
2017-18	AHL	San Jose Barracuda	67	6	22	28	-1	80				4		1	1	-4
2018-19	NHL	San Jose Sharks	3	0	1	1	-1	2		0.0	9:56
2018-19	AHL	San Jose Barracuda	57	5	14	19	+16	67				4				-5
2019-20	AHL	San Jose Barracuda	32	1	5	6	-13	52
2019-20	NHL	San Jose Sharks	10	0	2	2	-2	9	9	0.0	10:46
2020-21	NHL	San Jose Sharks	1	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0.0	8:44
2020-21	AHL	San Jose Barracuda	22	3	4	7	+4	18				4		2	2	+1
2021-22	NHL	San Jose Sharks	45	3	6	9	+3	69	51	5.9	19:03
2021-22	NHL	Minnesota Wild	21	1	4	5	+7	13	22	4.5	17:55	6		1	1	+6	2	9	0.0	16:54
2022-23	NHL	Minnesota Wild	79	3	12	15	+15	72	79	3.8	19:02	6		2	2	-2	8	7	0.0	20:31
2023-24	NHL	Minnesota Wild	80	7	18	25	-15	77	85	8.2	19:49
2024-25	NHL	Minnesota Wild	67	8	13	21	+11	40	97	8.2	21:52	6		2	2	+3	2	7	0.0	21:59
2025-26	NHL	Minnesota Wild	75	2	14	16	+2	76	62	3.2	17:30	11		1	1	-2	2	5	0.0	16:31
NHL Career			381	24	70	94	+18	360	406	5.9	19:01	29		6	6	+5	14	28	0.0	18:33