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Teddy Blueger
Vancouver Canucks Center
Twenty-six points from a defensive centre with 39 penalty minutes, and the worst chance share of any regular forward here.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 418 | 49 | 103 | 152 | +19 | 166 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 553 | 8.9 | 14:24 |
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
8 goals and 18 assists in 82 games — 26 points at 14:19 a night, minus-7, with 39 penalty minutes on 94 shots.
45.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 19th percentile — the worst mark of any regular forward on the club. His ice went 31-42 against an expectation of 29.93-36.24, which says the chances were poor and the results were worse.
The Finesse Game
94 attempts at a median of 31 feet with 34 per cent from inside 20 and 36 per cent from beyond 40, and 8 goals at an 8.5 per cent conversion.
18 assists in 82 games. There is no creation; the value is that he takes the hardest defensive draws on the roster, makes the correct first pass, and does not turn the puck over.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 185 and honest without being heavy. He blocks shots, he forechecks properly, and he does not initiate contact.
39 penalty minutes in 82 games is a moderate rate. He is a first-unit penalty killer and he has been on four clubs, and the discipline and the positioning are why.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2012 out of Latvia by way of a Minnesota prep school, and 418 games and 152 points across three organisations.
He is 31. On a club that lost both of its first-line centres to injury and to a trade, a fourth-line defensive centre played a great deal more than he should have.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
36.4% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 98th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“the value is that he takes the hardest defensive draws on the roster, makes the correct first pass, and does not turn the puck over.”
“the value is that he takes the hardest defensive draws on the roster, makes the correct first pass, and does not turn the puck over.”
“He blocks shots, he forechecks properly, and he does not initiate contact.”
“He is a first-unit penalty killer and he has been on four clubs, and the discipline and the positioning are why.”
“He blocks shots, he forechecks properly, and he does not initiate contact.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 938 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.2%
- 17th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.6%
- 30th 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: 31 for, 42 against. Expected: 29.9 and 36.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 25 points above where the numbers do. 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. 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 637 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, 2024-25 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 39th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.94 a game
- Distance
- 2.19 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.0 mph
- 79th 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 · 938 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
- VAN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.2% — 3.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 938 minutes at five-on-five — 51st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiefer Sherwood | 44.4% | 46.0% | 50.3% |
| Tyler Myers | 45.0% | 45.4% | 52.1% |
| Danton Heinen | 46.6% | 44.6% | 49.7% |
44.4% together, 46.0% for him apart and 50.3% for Sherwood apart. Sherwood was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for 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
143 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 29 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 36% from beyond forty.