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Kyle MacLean
New York Islanders Center
The 11th percentile in chance share, a line that outscored expectation by twenty goals, and a minus-15.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | NYI | 32 | 4 | 5 | 9 | +5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 15.4 | 10:05 |
| 2024-25 | NYI | 81 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -15 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 6.6 | 9:58 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 113 | 8 | 12 | 20 | -10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 9.2 | 9:60 |
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
81 games, 4 goals and 7 assists for 11 points at 9:58 a night — the lightest workload on the club — on 61 shots at 6.56 per cent. 14 penalty minutes. Minus-15.
The numbers underneath are the strangest set on this roster. A 42.4 per cent chance share is the 11th percentile in the league, and his line’s on-ice goals were 19-31 against an expected 20.13-27.35 — twenty more goals scored than the chances warranted, across 734 minutes. He was outplayed comprehensively, outscored opponents by thirteen at five-on-five, and finished the season at minus-15.
The Finesse Game
37 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 27, and 6.56 per cent on 61 attempts is a fourth-line return.
There is no offensive game to describe. He forechecks, he goes to the right places without the puck, and the decisions with it come a beat late — which is what a 44.3 per cent share looks like from the ice.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 190 and honest without being punishing. He finishes checks and he is not going to win a battle against a 220-pound winger.
14 penalty minutes in 81 games is a genuinely good rate for a fourth-line centre and it is the most useful thing on this page.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, four seasons in junior and two in the American League, and now two NHL seasons on a fourth line.
Nothing about the underlying numbers says he should keep the job and nothing about the goal totals says he should lose it, which is precisely the situation in which a club keeps playing a man for another year. The twenty-goal overshoot is not going to happen twice.
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
- 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.
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He forechecks, he goes to the right places without the puck”
“6-1 and 190 and honest without being punishing.”
“he is not going to win a battle against a 220-pound winger.”
“14 penalty minutes in 81 games is a genuinely good rate for a fourth-line centre and it is the most useful thing on this page.”
“Undrafted, four seasons in junior and two in the American League, and now two NHL seasons on a fourth line.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 734 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.4%
- 7th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44%
- 9th 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: 19 for, 31 against. Expected: 20.1 and 27.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 — 58 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 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 77th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.81 a game
- Distance
- 1.63 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.5 mph
- 70th 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 83.9
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 · 734 minutes at five-on-five
- Marc Gatcomb38%
- Pierre Engvalloff the roster30%
- Matt Martinoff the roster25%
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
- NYI took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.4% — 7.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 734 minutes at five-on-five — 31st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Gatcomb | 45.3% | 40.4% | — |
| Pierre Engvall | 46.6% | 40.4% | 47.8% |
| Alexander Romanov | 39.4% | 43.8% | 50.9% |
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
86 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 26% from beyond forty.