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Teddy Blueger
Vancouver Canucks Center
Seven career shorthanded goals and no power-play goals at all.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 336 | 41 | 85 | 126 | +26 | 127 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 459 | 8.9 | 14:25 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
68 games, 6 goals and 22 assists for 28 points, 2 shorthanded, 31 penalty minutes, 14:56 a night and plus-4. He took 56.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 851 minutes, the 93rd percentile, and his ice went 34-33 against an expectation of 39.28-30.13.
Five goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and three more conceded than they called for. Fifty-six and a half per cent of the chances is the second-highest share of any forward on the club and the goals did not follow it.
The Finesse Game
124 attempts at a median of 17 feet with 58 per cent of them from inside twenty and 12 per cent from beyond forty, 89 of those on goal, converted at 6.2 per cent against a career 8.93 across 459 shots.
Eighty-five career assists and no power-play goals at all in 336 games. He gets to the inside as reliably as anybody on the club and cannot finish from there; a career 8.93 per cent on 459 shots is a checking centre’s rate and 28 points ties his career high.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 185 and took 31 penalty minutes.
127 career penalty minutes in 336 games. He is ordinary-sized and takes the hardest defensive assignment on the club anyway, closing on the puck rather than the man and using his stick to end the play early.
The Intangibles
Fifty-second overall in 2012 by Pittsburgh, six seasons, and Vancouver is his third organisation.
A career plus-26 and 7 shorthanded goals in 336 games. He is 30, he has never scored more than 9 goals in a season, and his ice went the right way against the other club’s best forwards all year.
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
- 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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
64.5% of his attempts in the slot, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
“A career plus-26 and 7 shorthanded goals in 336 games.”
“He gets to the inside as reliably as anybody on the club and cannot finish from there; a career 8.93 per cent on 459 shots is a checking centre's rate and 28 points ties his career high.”
“He is ordinary-sized and takes the hardest defensive assignment on the club anyway, closing on the puck rather than the man and using his stick to end the play early.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 851 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.6%
- 93rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.3%
- 74th 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: 34 for, 33 against. Expected: 39.3 and 30.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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, 2023-24 · 68 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 41st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.31 a game
- Distance
- 2.30 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.0 mph
- 39th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 851 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, 2023-24
- The club
- VAN took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.6% — 4.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 851 minutes at five-on-five — 44th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conor Garland | 61.0% | 50.8% | 59.3% |
| Dakota Joshua | 58.9% | 54.2% | 52.5% |
| Tyler Myers | 61.3% | 53.7% | 49.3% |
61.0% together, 50.8% for him apart and 59.3% for Garland apart. He was worse away from Garland, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Garland did.
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
124 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 58% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.