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Taylor Hall
Carolina Hurricanes Left Wing
42 points at 33, a minus-14, and the only forward on this roster whose chance share was below the league median.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | EDM | 65 | 22 | 20 | 42 | -9 | 27 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 186 | 11.8 | 18:13 |
| 2011-12 | EDM | 61 | 27 | 26 | 53 | -3 | 36 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 207 | 13.0 | 18:13 |
| 2012-13 | EDM | 45 | 16 | 34 | 50 | +5 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 154 | 10.4 | 18:37 |
| 2013-14 | EDM | 75 | 27 | 53 | 80 | -15 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 250 | 10.8 | 20:01 |
| 2014-15 | EDM | 53 | 14 | 24 | 38 | -1 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 158 | 8.9 | 19:13 |
| 2015-16 | EDM | 82 | 26 | 39 | 65 | -4 | 54 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 286 | 9.1 | 19:12 |
| 2016-17 | NJD | 72 | 20 | 33 | 53 | -9 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 238 | 8.4 | 19:20 |
| 2017-18 | NJD | 76 | 39 | 54 | 93 | +14 | 34 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 278 | 14.0 | 19:09 |
| 2018-19 | NJD | 33 | 11 | 26 | 37 | -6 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 113 | 9.7 | 19:41 |
| 2019-20 | NJD/ARI | 65 | 16 | 36 | 52 | -14 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 232 | 6.9 | 19:10 |
| 2020-21 | BUF/BOS | 53 | 10 | 23 | 33 | -6 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 136 | 7.3 | 17:52 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 81 | 20 | 41 | 61 | +11 | 42 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 217 | 9.2 | 16:25 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 61 | 16 | 20 | 36 | +11 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 150 | 10.7 | 15:56 |
| 2023-24 | CHI | 10 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 10.0 | 16:20 |
| 2024-25 | CHI/CAR | 77 | 18 | 24 | 42 | -14 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 144 | 12.5 | 15:10 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 909 | 284 | 455 | 739 | -43 | 482 | 82 | 1 | 50 | 2769 | 10.3 | 18:12 |
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
18 goals and 24 assists in 77 games for 42 points, minus-14 — the worst rating on the club — on 15:10 a night.
49.4 per cent at five-on-five, the 47th percentile, on a team whose next-lowest forward was at 53.2 and whose median was 56. On a club that led the league in chance share by four points, being at 49.4 is the most damning number available.
The Finesse Game
The skating is still genuinely good and it is what remains of the player who won a Hart. He carries the puck into the zone with speed and he can still beat a defenceman wide.
12.5 per cent shooting is fair and 30 per cent of his attempts come from inside 20 feet. What has gone is the ability to make anything happen when the first option is covered — 24 assists in 77 games on this club, where everybody’s assists are inflated by possession, is thin.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 210, and he does not play to it. He avoids the wall, does not forecheck heavily, and gives up possession rather than absorbing contact to keep it.
36 penalty minutes. The body has cost him enormously across his career — two seasons largely lost to knee injuries — and 77 games was his healthiest in four years.
The Intangibles
A 1st overall pick, a Hart trophy, and a career spent on clubs that did not work. This is the first genuinely good team he has played a full season for and he was its weakest regular forward.
At 33 that is close to the answer. He is a useful third-line winger on a cheap deal, and the club should not be asking him for more.
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.
“He carries the puck into the zone with speed and he can still beat a defenceman wide.”
“What has gone is the ability to make anything happen when the first option is covered — 24 assists in 77 games on this club, where everybody's assists are inflated by possession, is thin.”
“He avoids the wall”
“does not forecheck heavily”
“gives up possession rather than absorbing contact to keep it”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 982 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.4%
- 48th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.2%
- 67th 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: 43 for, 44 against. Expected: 41.3 and 42.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 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 — 75 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
- 22.5 mph
- 63rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.10 a game
- Distance
- 2.58 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.3 mph
- 62nd 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 CHI · 619 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
- CAR took 55.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.4% — 6.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 982 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Bertuzzi | 46.4% | 50.7% | 38.5% |
| Jesperi Kotkaniemi | 56.1% | 47.2% | 55.1% |
| Alex Vlasic | 43.0% | 50.9% | 42.6% |
46.4% together, 50.7% for him apart and 38.5% for Bertuzzi apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Bertuzzi behind.
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
203 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 29% from beyond forty.