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Lukas Reichel

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Lukas Reichel

Boston Bruins Left Wing #76

A first-round pick at 24 with 170 pounds on him and the numbers running out of patience.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22CHI11011-80000150.013:12
2022-23CHI237815-860004216.716:22
2023-24CHI6551116-2912200845.914:07
2024-25CHI7081422-16120017211.111:55
2025-26CHI/VAN/BOS29358-260012412.512:27
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—198233962-63362022379.713:18

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

3 goals and 5 assists in 29 games, minus-2, at 12:27 a night. His 5-on-5 minutes were played in Vancouver.

The Finesse Game

The skating is genuinely good — quick feet, a clean first 3 strides, and enough handling to carry the puck through the neutral zone. That is what made him the seventeenth pick in 2020.

Everything after the blue line has been the problem. 40 unblocked attempts in 29 games, 3 goals, and a median distance of 26 feet. He does not shoot and when he passes it is often the safe one. 62 points in 198 career games.

The Physical Game

6 foot even and 170 pounds, which is among the lightest in the league, and there is no strength in his game to compensate. 6 penalty minutes in 29 games. He is removed from pucks routinely and cannot hold the wall.

The Intangibles

The on-ice results were the worst of any player in this section: 44.0 per cent of the expected goals, 12th percentile, and 45.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 14th. The sample is only 336 minutes, so it is not a verdict on its own — but it is consistent with the 2 seasons before it.

He is 24, which is young enough that the story is not finished, and 198 games in with no sign of the scoring that the pick assumed. Boston is his third organisation. The feet will always be there. Something else has to arrive.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 336 minutes

Expected goals
44%
11th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
45.3%
14th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 18 for, 19 against. Expected: 13.1 and 16.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
1st
Numbers
11th

The two rank him within 10 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 — 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, 2025-26 · 29 games

Top speed
23.0 mph
86th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.59 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.12 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
82.1 mph
31st pct

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 15 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

4

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 3 assists, 15 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with VAN · 171 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, 2025-26

The club
BOS took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.0% — 4.0 below the club he did it on.
The role
336 minutes at five-on-five — 8th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Brock Boeser46.2%43.1%39.5%
Morgan Geekie48.3%42.7%46.1%
Elias Lindholm47.7%42.9%45.4%

46.2% together, 43.1% for him apart and 39.5% for Boeser apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

40 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.