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Lukas Reichel

22 points in 70 games at 23, and a first-round pick running out of seasons.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2021-22	CHI	11	0	1	1	-8	0	0	0	0	15	0.0	13:12
2022-23	CHI	23	7	8	15	-8	6	0	0	0	42	16.7	16:22
2023-24	CHI	65	5	11	16	-29	12	2	0	0	84	5.9	14:07
2024-25	CHI	70	8	14	22	-16	12	0	0	1	72	11.1	11:55
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	169	20	34	54	-61	30	2	0	1	213	9.4	13:27

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

8 goals and 14 assists in 70 games for 22 points, minus-16, on 11:55 a night.

40.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 4th percentile, over 733 minutes. 72 shots in 70 games is very low volume and 22 points is a fourth-liner’s total in fourth-line minutes.

The Finesse Game

The skating is real — quick, light, and genuinely evasive — and the hands work at speed in open ice. That is what made him a first-round pick.

What has never arrived is the ability to do anything with it under pressure. He is dispossessed easily, defers when he should shoot, and four NHL seasons have produced 22 points at best. 42 per cent of his attempts come from inside 20 feet, so it is not a location problem.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 170, and among the lightest forwards in the league. He does not win a puck against an NHL defenceman, does not forecheck with force, and cannot protect possession long enough to use the skill.

12 penalty minutes over 70 games. He is not in the traffic.

The Intangibles

A first-round pick who has been given four seasons and repeated top-six looks on a club with nobody ahead of him.

At 23 there is a little time left and the pattern is not encouraging. The skating alone will get him another chance somewhere; the club that drafted him has largely finished asking.

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.

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.

wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“He does not win a puck against an NHL defenceman”
forechecks-aggressivelyhe lacks it· first man in, and on the puck
“does not forecheck with force”
nastyhe lacks it· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“12 penalty minutes over 70 games. He is not in the traffic.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 733 minutes

Expected goals: 40.5%; 4th pct
Shot attempts: 40.4%; 1st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 21 for, 28 against. Expected: 22.1 and 32.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

13th

Numbers

4th

The two rank him within 9 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 — 65 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 · 70 games

Top speed: 23.0 mph; 86th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.83 a game
Distance: 2.17 miles a game
Hardest shot: 80.5 mph; 21st pct

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 · 733 minutes at five-on-five

Patrick Maroonoff the roster56%
Craig Smithoff the roster35%
Tyler Bertuzzi13%

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: CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.5% — 2.7 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 733 minutes at five-on-five — 31st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Patrick Maroon	44.4%	34.9%	38.5%
Craig Smith	45.9%	36.9%	42.6%
Alex Vlasic	41.5%	39.9%	42.9%

44.4% together, 34.9% for him apart and 38.5% for Maroon 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

91 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.