Justin Hryckowian
Dallas Stars Center #49
Undrafted, fourteen goals as a rookie, and fifty-eight per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 81 | 14 | 16 | 30 | +1 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 16.9 | 13:18 |
| Career | 86 | 14 | 17 | 31 | +2 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 86 | 16.3 | 12:59 |
Last Season
Fourteen goals and 16 assists in 81 games — 30 points, plus-one, 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. Fifty-eight per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside twenty feet, with a median of 16 — closer than Robertson, closer than Johnston, closer than anyone in Dallas except Bäck.
Fourteen 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.
Sixteen assists is ordinary and nobody is asking for more.
The Physical Game
Five foot eleven, 198, and he plays a hard forechecking game. Forty-three 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
Fifty-one point two per cent of the expected goals, 65th percentile, with the goals 49-31 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. Six points in his last ten, three of them goals.
The finishing rate will fall. The place he takes his shots from will not, and that is the part worth keeping.