Justin Hryckowian
Dallas Stars Center #49
Undrafted, 14 goals as a rookie, and 58 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | DAL | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 7:53 |
| 2025-26 | DAL | 81 | 14 | 16 | 30 | +1 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 16.9 | 13:18 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 86 | 14 | 17 | 31 | +2 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 86 | 16.3 | 12:59 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 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
14 goals and 16 assists in 81 games — 30 points, plus-1, at 13:18 a night with 43 penalty minutes. His first NHL season, at 24.
The Finesse Game
The shot chart is the best on the club and one of the best in the book. 58 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, with a median of 16 — closer than Robertson, closer than Johnston, closer than anyone in Dallas except Bäck.
14 goals from 83 shots on goal is a very high conversion, and unlike most such rates it is standing on something real: he is shooting from the paint.
16 assists is ordinary and nobody is asking for more.
The Physical Game
5-11, 198, and he plays a hard forechecking game. 43 penalty minutes in 81 games from a fourth-line role is a player who competes for everything.
He is not large and he goes to the net anyway, which is where the shot chart comes from.
The Intangibles
50.1 per cent of the expected goals, 55th percentile, with the goals 36-32 in his favour across 930 minutes.
Undrafted out of Northeastern, 86 career games, and an 81-game rookie season at 24 on a club with genuine ambitions. 6 points in his last 10, 3 of them goals.
The finishing rate will fall. The place he takes his shots from will not, and that is the part worth keeping.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
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.
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 930 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.1%
- 55th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.9%
- 35th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 32 against. Expected: 31.8 and 31.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 11 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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, 2025-26 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 46th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.94 a game
- Distance
- 2.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.1 mph
- 52nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
6
points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 3 assists, 12 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 930 minutes at five-on-five
- Oskar Bäck30%
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, 2025-26
- The club
- DAL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.1% — 0.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 930 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mavrik Bourque | 52.5% | 48.7% | 54.9% |
| Thomas Harley | 50.8% | 49.7% | 47.6% |
| Esa Lindell | 56.8% | 46.8% | 53.7% |
52.5% together, 48.7% for him apart and 54.9% for Bourque apart. He was worse away from Bourque, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Bourque 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
126 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 58% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.