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Michael Eyssimont

142 shots and 9 goals from a fourth-line role, and 63 penalty minutes.

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

2021-22	WPG	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	5:49
2022-23	WPG/SJS/TBL	54	5	10	15	+3	63	0	0	0	124	4.0	12:15
2023-24	TBL	81	11	14	25	+7	104	2	0	2	149	7.4	11:51
2024-25	TBL/SEA	77	9	7	16	+1	63	0	0	2	142	6.3	10:37
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	213	25	31	56	+11	230	2	0	4	416	6.0	11:29

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

9 goals and 7 assists in 77 games for 16 points, plus-1, on 10:37 a night with 142 shots.

142 shots in ten and a half minutes a night is a remarkable rate — more than Charlie McAvoy took in 50 games — and 9 goals from them is 6.3 per cent. He shoots constantly and converts rarely.

The Finesse Game

The volume is the whole offensive game. He fires from everywhere and the release is ordinary, which is why the conversion rate sits where it does; there is no deception and very little playmaking.

What that volume buys is possession time in the offensive zone, which for a fourth line is a genuine contribution even when nothing goes in.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 195, and he forechecks with real speed and finishes his checks. He is among the more irritating fourth-line forwards in the league to play against and he is willing to answer for it.

63 penalty minutes in 77 games is a high rate for a bottom-six forward, and on a club with a middling penalty kill it is a cost as well as a contribution.

The Intangibles

A fifth-round pick in 2016, four organisations, and an NHL job at 29 built entirely on pace and willingness.

The projection is exactly what he is: a fourth-line winger who forechecks, shoots and irritates. Boston signed him to make a bottom six harder to play against and that is what will arrive.

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.

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.

playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“there is no deception and very little playmaking”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“he forechecks with real speed and finishes his checks”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“finishes his checks”
agitatora strength· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“He is among the more irritating fourth-line forwards in the league to play against and he is willing to answer for it.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 770 minutes

Expected goals: 51.1%; 64th pct
Shot attempts: 52.1%; 74th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 26 for, 24 against. Expected: 28.9 and 27.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

49th

Numbers

64th

The two rank him within 15 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 — 72 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 · 77 games

Top speed: 22.9 mph; 80th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.56 a game
Distance: 1.75 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.2 mph; 52nd 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 with TBL · 600 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, 2024-25

The club: SEA took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 3.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: 770 minutes at five-on-five — 34th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Luke Glendening	53.4%	50.2%	36.8%
Zemgus Girgensons	53.8%	50.2%	47.9%
Emil Lilleberg	45.5%	53.0%	46.4%

53.4% together, 50.2% for him apart and 36.8% for Glendening 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

192 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.