Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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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.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2013-14CHI30000000040.014:06
2014-15CHI34459+42001666.112:47
2015-16CHI78132235-2202031369.615:21
2016-17CAR81152742-6165021698.916:14
2017-18CAR82234164+81450318512.416:53
2018-19CAR82215576+301281116712.617:55
2019-20CAR68154863+2084111828.219:12
2020-21CAR2151015+540024910.216:26
2021-22CAR77224365+222492220210.917:42
2022-23CAR68122537+11165221448.316:55
2023-24CAR76252853+151091414217.616:24
2024-25 so far
Career670155304459+10712647721144610.716:48

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 54.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 949 minutes, the 86th percentile, and his ice went 32-40 against an expectation of 42.45-35.18.

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.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 949 minutes

Expected goals
54.7%
86th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
58.9%
98th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 40 against. Expected: 42.5 and 35.2.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
40th
Numbers
86th

The numbers rank him 46 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 201 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.

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 54.7% — 1.9 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

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Sebastian Aho53.6%55.7%53.3%
Andrei Svechnikov56.3%53.5%56.6%
Jaccob Slavin54.0%55.1%57.5%

53.6% together, 55.7% for him apart and 53.3% 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.