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Teddy Blueger

453 games, 9 goals in 35, and the 3rd percentile.

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

2018-19	PIT	28	6	4	10	+7	15	0	1	1	33	18.2	11:03
2019-20	PIT	69	9	13	22	+2	25	0	0	2	102	8.8	15:49
2020-21	PIT	43	7	15	22	+10	16	0	3	1	49	14.3	14:51
2021-22	PIT	65	9	19	28	+12	10	0	1	0	93	9.7	15:01
2022-23	PIT/VGK	63	4	12	16	-9	30	0	0	1	85	4.7	12:55
2023-24	VAN	68	6	22	28	+4	31	0	2	0	97	6.2	14:56
2024-25	VAN	82	8	18	26	-7	39	0	0	0	94	8.5	14:19
2025-26	VAN	35	9	8	17	-12	22	1	3	1	51	17.6	16:31
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	453	58	111	169	+7	188	1	10	6	604	9.6	14:34

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

9 goals and 8 assists in 35 games — 17 points, minus-12, at 16:31 a night with 22 penalty minutes. 47 games missed. His 5-on-5 work was done in Vancouver.

His 453rd career game.

The Finesse Game

74 unblocked attempts produced 9 goals — a 12 per cent conversion from a median of 30 feet with only 28 per cent from inside 20, which is a rate nobody sustains.

169 points in 453 career games is the real level. 8 assists in 35 games is fair.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 185, and light. 22 penalty minutes.

He is a penalty-killing centre first — good on draws, good with his stick, reliable in his own end — and the physical game is willing rather than imposing.

The Intangibles

40.5 per cent of the expected goals, 2nd percentile, and 43.9 per cent of the shot attempts, seventh, across 499 minutes in Vancouver, with the chances 16.4 for and 24.1 against.

Those are poor numbers on a club that conceded 210 goals at 5-on-5, the most in the league.

He is 32, a 52nd overall pick, and joins Toronto to do what he did in Pittsburgh and Vancouver: kill penalties and take the hard draw. 47 games missed is the thing to watch.

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

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.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
29.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
29% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 4th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 499 minutes

Expected goals: 40.5%; 3rd pct
Shot attempts: 43.9%; 7th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 19 for, 34 against. Expected: 16.4 and 24.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

44th

Numbers

3rd

The report ranks him 41 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

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 — 71 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 · 35 games

Top speed: 22.2 mph; 50th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.17 a game
Distance: 2.59 miles a game
Hardest shot: 81.2 mph; 26th 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 3 assists, 19 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with VAN · 499 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: VAN took 43.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.5% — 3.0 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 499 minutes at five-on-five — 16th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Marcus Pettersson	41.3%	39.9%	42.8%
Filip Hronek	39.9%	40.9%	45.7%
Liam Ohgren	37.4%	42.2%	35.2%

41.3% together, 39.9% for him apart and 42.8% for Pettersson apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

74 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 28% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.