Josi became the NHL's highest-scoring defenseman in 29 years, posting 23 goals, 73 assists and 96 points in just 80 games to help the Predators reach the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the eighth consecutive season. Only six defensemen in the past 50 years have surpassed Josi's 96 points in a single campaign: Paul Coffey, Phil Housley, Brian Leetch, Al MacInnis, Bobby Orr and Denis Potvin.
The best Swiss player of all time set career highs in goals, assists and points, broke the single-season Nashville franchise records among all positions for points and assists, recorded the most assists by any NHL defenseman since Sergei Zubov's 77 in 1993-94 and led all blueliners with 26 multi-point games.
His 281 shots on goal were 41 more than the second-ranked defenseman in 2021-22 and his 59 even-strength points were the most since Ray Bourque's 59 in 1986-87.
Josi led all NHL defensemen in the percentage of his team's goals he scored or assisted on at 36.6 percent, a mark that stands as the third-highest total by a defenseman in NHL history and the highest since Bobby Orr in 1974-75 (39.1 percent).
Josi also factored in on 13.2 percent of Nashville's total points, the fifth-highest total by a defenseman since 1938-39 during the Franklin Roosevelt Administration. The only blueliners in NHL history to record a higher percentage of his team's points in a season are Bobby Orr, who did so three times (last: 1974-75, 15.1 percent), and Erik Karlsson (2015-16, 13.9 percent).
Colorado's Cale Makar and Tampa Bay's Victor Hedman were also nominated for the Norris this time around, and all three finalists eclipsed 80 points in 2021-22, marking the first time in 28 years that as many as three blueliners surpassed the milestone in a single season.
The three finalists for the 2022 NHL Awards are being announced through Friday, May 20. The winner of the Norris Trophy will be announced later in the postseason.
