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Chris Kreider

22 goals and 8 assists at 34 — the worst full season of his career, and the price of finding out whether it was the club or the man.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2012-13	NYR	23	2	1	3	-1	6	0	0	0	19	10.5	10:07
2013-14	NYR	66	17	20	37	+14	72	6	0	0	136	12.5	15:44
2014-15	NYR	80	21	25	46	+24	88	7	0	5	180	11.7	15:43
2015-16	NYR	79	21	22	43	+10	58	5	0	3	158	13.3	15:57
2016-17	NYR	75	28	25	53	+6	58	6	0	4	186	15.0	17:00
2017-18	NYR	58	16	21	37	-2	44	7	0	0	137	11.7	15:37
2018-19	NYR	79	28	24	52	+4	57	7	0	2	201	13.9	17:24
2019-20	NYR	63	24	21	45	+13	58	9	0	5	156	15.4	17:15
2020-21	NYR	50	20	10	30	-1	34	11	0	4	102	19.6	17:24
2021-22	NYR	81	52	25	77	+19	24	26	3	11	258	20.2	18:44
2022-23	NYR	79	36	18	54	+21	26	8	4	3	229	15.7	18:25
2023-24	NYR	82	39	36	75	+19	26	18	2	7	246	15.8	18:47
2024-25	NYR	68	22	8	30	-5	24	6	4	6	152	14.5	16:45
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	883	326	256	582	+121	575	116	13	50	2160	15.1	16:56

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

22 goals and 8 assists in 68 games for 30 points, minus-5, on 16:45 a night with the Rangers, with 6 on the power play and 4 shorthanded.

8 assists in 68 games is the number that ended his time in New York. He scored 39 goals the season before; the goals halved and the playmaking, which was never the point, disappeared entirely.

The Finesse Game

The skating is still genuinely elite for a 6-3 winger — a long, powerful stride that lets him beat a defenceman wide from a standing start, which is the single skill his whole game is built on.

Everything else is narrow by design. He is a net-front scorer and a rush finisher and has never been a distributor; 4 shorthanded goals says the speed still creates by itself. What has thinned is the volume: 152 shots in 68 games, and a man who needs to be given the puck in space is dependent on a centre who can do it.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 232, and among the more physically punishing wingers in the league to defend at the net front. He takes crosschecks and stays, and he goes through the crease rather than around it.

24 penalty minutes. The body has begun to cost him games — 68 last season, and back trouble that has now been an issue for two years.

The Intangibles

Thirteen seasons and 300 goals in one organisation, a reputation for showing up in Aprils, and an exit that was managed badly by everybody.

Anaheim is buying the possibility that a bad club, a bad year and a bad back are three separate things. At 34 with real term left, that is an expensive experiment, and the honest reading of 30 points is that at least two of those three are permanent.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He is a net-front scorer and a rush finisher”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“has never been a distributor”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“among the more physically punishing wingers in the league to defend at the net front”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He takes crosschecks and stays, and he goes through the crease rather than around it.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“4 shorthanded goals says the speed still creates by itself”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 741 minutes

Expected goals: 45.4%; 18th pct
Shot attempts: 46.8%; 23rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 27 for, 27 against. Expected: 27.2 and 32.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

72nd

Numbers

18th

The report ranks him 54 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 68 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 71st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.04 a game
Distance: 2.42 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.3 mph; 75th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with NYR · 741 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2024-25

The club: NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.4% — 2.3 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 741 minutes at five-on-five — 32nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mika Zibanejad	47.0%	43.5%	49.6%
Reilly Smith	50.0%	41.9%	52.8%
Braden Schneider	42.9%	46.8%	47.2%

47.0% together, 43.5% for him apart and 49.6% for Zibanejad apart. He was worse away from Zibanejad, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Zibanejad did.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

213 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.