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Teuvo Teravainen
Chicago Blackhawks Center
Traded away at 21 and signed back at 30, with 47 power-play goals and 304 assists collected in between.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | CHI | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 14:06 |
| 2014-15 | CHI | 34 | 4 | 5 | 9 | +4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 66 | 6.1 | 12:47 |
| 2015-16 | CHI | 78 | 13 | 22 | 35 | -2 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 136 | 9.6 | 15:21 |
| 2016-17 | CAR | 81 | 15 | 27 | 42 | -6 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 169 | 8.9 | 16:14 |
| 2017-18 | CAR | 82 | 23 | 41 | 64 | +8 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 185 | 12.4 | 16:53 |
| 2018-19 | CAR | 82 | 21 | 55 | 76 | +30 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 167 | 12.6 | 17:55 |
| 2019-20 | CAR | 68 | 15 | 48 | 63 | +20 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 182 | 8.2 | 19:12 |
| 2020-21 | CAR | 21 | 5 | 10 | 15 | +5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 49 | 10.2 | 16:26 |
| 2021-22 | CAR | 77 | 22 | 43 | 65 | +22 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 202 | 10.9 | 17:42 |
| 2022-23 | CAR | 68 | 12 | 25 | 37 | +11 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 144 | 8.3 | 16:55 |
| 2023-24 | CAR | 76 | 25 | 28 | 53 | +15 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 142 | 17.6 | 16:24 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 670 | 155 | 304 | 459 | +107 | 126 | 47 | 7 | 21 | 1446 | 10.7 | 16:48 |
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
Seventy-six games in Carolina, 25 goals and 28 assists, 9 of the goals on the power play and 1 shorthanded, 16:24 a night, and plus-15. He took 55.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 949 minutes, the 90th percentile, and his ice went 38-29 against an expectation of 43.10-34.48.
Carolina finished last in the league in finishing and this is what that looked like from inside it: a winger in the 86th percentile of chances whose ice still came out eight goals under. He converted 17.61 per cent himself, which is well above his career 10.72, and the 25 goals were the highest total of his career.
The Finesse Game
He holds the puck below the goal line and waits for the seam, and it is the half of a power play Chicago did not have at all. Three hundred and four assists in 670 games and 47 career power-play goals are built on patience rather than on pace — he will hold a puck a full second longer than anybody expects.
One hundred and forty-two shots at a median of 33 feet with 26 per cent from inside 20. He is a shooter from the top of the circle rather than from the paint and the release is disguised.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 191 and does not play a physical game at all. Ten penalty minutes in 76 games is one of the lowest rates in the league and it comes from never being anywhere that draws one.
He kills penalties and has 7 career shorthanded goals, which is the anticipation rather than the body — he reads a power play’s first pass and jumps the lane.
The Intangibles
Chicago’s own first-round pick in 2012, traded to Carolina at 21 as a salary move, and back at 30 having become the player the trade gave up on. He has a Stanley Cup from Chicago in 2015, won at 20, and a plus-107 across a career spent almost entirely on good clubs.
He arrives on a club that scored 179 goals to play beside a nineteen-year-old. It is the most sensible signing the club made.
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.
- hard-shot· beats a goaltender from range
5 of 62 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 8.1%, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.13 penalty minutes a game over 76, 5th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
“He holds the puck below the goal line and waits for the seam, and it is the half of a power play Chicago did not have at all.”
“He is 5-11 and 191 and does not play a physical game at all.”
“He kills penalties and has 7 career shorthanded goals, which is the anticipation rather than the body — he reads a power play's first pass and jumps the lane.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 949 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.6%
- 90th pct
- Shot attempts
- 59.5%
- 98th 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: 38 for, 29 against. Expected: 43.1 and 34.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 70 points above where the report does. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 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 · 76 games
- Top speed
- 21.2 mph
- 14th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.30 a game
- Distance
- 2.56 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.6 mph
- 87th 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 with CAR · 949 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
- CAR took 56.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.6% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 949 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sebastian Aho | 55.5% | 55.6% | 54.4% |
| Jaccob Slavin | 55.9% | 55.3% | 58.5% |
| Andrei Svechnikov | 57.3% | 54.3% | 54.2% |
55.5% together, 55.6% for him apart and 54.4% for Aho 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
220 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 24 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 26% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 28% from beyond forty.