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Jordan Kyrou

St. Louis Blues Right Wing

36 goals and a plus-23, and the ice he was on scored 34 against an expectation of 46.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2018-19STL16123-14000166.39:40
2019-20STL28459+180003910.310:54
2020-21STL55142135+1120029814.314:25
2021-22STL74274875+102050418814.416:35
2022-23STL79373673-3822110527213.618:00
2023-24STL82313667-122280425112.318:20
2024-25STL82363470+232070423915.117:29
2025-26 so far
Career416150182332-1610831019110313.616:26

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

36 goals and 34 assists in 82 games — 70 points at 17:29 a night, plus-23, the best figure on the club, with 7 power-play goals and 4 game-winners on 239 shots, the most on the roster.

53.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 79th percentile. His ice went 34-36 against an expectation of 46.21-40.90 — twelve goals of scoring missing and five extra conceded, which sits oddly next to a plus-23 and says the goals came somewhere other than five-on-five.

The Finesse Game

The skating is the best on the club and among the best in the league. He beats a defenceman wide from a standing start and he does it several times a night; almost everything he produces comes from crossing the blue line with speed.

239 attempts at a median of 32 feet with 25 per cent from inside 20, converting at 15.1 per cent. He shoots off the rush rather than from the paint, which is a shot profile that lives or dies on the shooting percentage.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 189 and he is not in the physical half of the game. He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he is not used against a first line.

20 penalty minutes in 82 games. He is disciplined, he does not retaliate, and the defensive detail has been the standing criticism for five years.

The Intangibles

Thirty-fifth overall in 2016 and 416 games and 332 points, with a Stanley Cup ring from 2019 that he was not old enough to play a part in.

He is 27, an alternate captain, and signed through 2031. Thirty-six goals is a career high and the third time in four seasons he has scored more than 30.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,140 minutes

Expected goals
53%
79th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
50.1%
54th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 34 for, 36 against. Expected: 46.2 and 40.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
66th
Numbers
79th

The two rank him within 13 points of one another. 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.

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 — 75 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1140 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
STL took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.0% — 1.9 above the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 1,140 minutes at five-on-five — 80th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Brayden Schenn53.6%52.4%43.6%
Dylan Holloway56.3%50.1%50.7%
Ryan Suter48.8%55.3%47.8%

53.6% together, 52.4% for him apart and 43.6% for Schenn apart. Schenn was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Schenn than for him.

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

328 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 36 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 25% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.