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Sean Kuraly
Boston Bruins Center
A 32-year-old fourth-line centre back where he started, and 17 points to describe him with.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | BOS | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.0 | 9:12 |
| 2017-18 | BOS | 75 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -5 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 134 | 4.5 | 12:15 |
| 2018-19 | BOS | 71 | 8 | 13 | 21 | +6 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 134 | 6.0 | 13:46 |
| 2019-20 | BOS | 69 | 6 | 17 | 23 | -2 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 6.3 | 13:17 |
| 2020-21 | BOS | 47 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 88 | 4.5 | 14:04 |
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 77 | 14 | 16 | 30 | +2 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 121 | 11.6 | 15:52 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 71 | 11 | 9 | 20 | -28 | 68 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100 | 11.0 | 15:04 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 62 | 9 | 9 | 18 | -5 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 9.8 | 13:44 |
| 2024-25 | CBJ | 82 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -4 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 6.8 | 11:46 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 562 | 64 | 89 | 153 | -47 | 343 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 863 | 7.4 | 13:37 |
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
6 goals and 11 assists in 82 games for 17 points, minus-4, on 11:46 a night with Columbus.
82 games in a fourth-line role, which is the whole of what he is paid for. 88 shots and 6 goals, and the value sits in the faceoff circle, on the kill, and in the room.
The Finesse Game
None to speak of and none required. 17 points is his ninth season in that neighbourhood, and there has never been an indication that another gear exists.
He wins a draw, gets the puck deep, and forechecks. That is the game and it has been reliable for a decade.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 208, and he plays a heavy, straight-line forechecking game. He finishes checks, blocks shots, and is difficult below the goal line.
40 penalty minutes over 82 games is a fair rate for the style. The durability is exceptional — five straight seasons above 75 games in a role built on contact.
The Intangibles
Five seasons here, four in Columbus, and a return at 32 to a club that has lost most of the men he won with. He is the sort of signing a rebuilding team makes to give its 21-year-olds somebody to watch.
The projection is a fourth-line centre for two more years. It is not a use of a roster spot that a club chasing a playoff place would make, and Boston is not one.
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
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
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
34% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 8th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He wins a draw, gets the puck deep, and forechecks.”
“the value sits in the faceoff circle, on the kill, and in the room”
“He is the sort of signing a rebuilding team makes to give its 21-year-olds somebody to watch.”
“he plays a heavy, straight-line forechecking game”
“He finishes checks, blocks shots, and is difficult below the goal line.”
“blocks shots”
“is difficult below the goal line”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 837 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.1%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.6%
- 39th 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: 28 for, 35 against. Expected: 28.4 and 33.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 16 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 — 70 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 86th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.52 a game
- Distance
- 1.94 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.7 mph
- 37th 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 with CBJ · 837 minutes at five-on-five
- Kevin Labancoff the roster29%
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
- CBJ took 48.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.1% — 2.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 837 minutes at five-on-five — 39th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zach Werenski | 49.6% | 44.0% | 54.2% |
| Zach Aston-Reese | 50.4% | 43.9% | 47.5% |
| Ivan Provorov | 43.1% | 47.6% | 47.5% |
49.6% together, 44.0% for him apart and 54.2% for Werenski apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Werenski and did not follow him.
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
138 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 33% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.