Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Teuvo Teravainen

Chicago Blackhawks Center

58 points and 43 assists on the worst possession team in the league, and a minus-23 for it.

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
2024-25CHI82154358-231270011113.517:04
2025-26 so far
Career752170347517+8413854721155710.916:50

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

15 goals and 43 assists in 82 games for 58 points, minus-23, on 17:04 a night.

45.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 17th percentile — which on this roster is the second-best figure among the regular forwards. His on-ice goals were 30-51 against an expected 33-39, so 12 goals of goaltending disappeared from underneath him.

The Finesse Game

The passing is the whole player and it is very good. He plays a patient half-wall game, holds the puck until a defenceman commits, and puts it into space — 43 assists on a club that scored 218 goals is the most impressive individual number in this chapter.

111 shots and 15 goals; 37 per cent of his attempts came from beyond 40 feet, which is a distributor taking what is left rather than a shooter choosing. There is no rush game and there never was.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 191, and there is nothing here. He does not forecheck with force, does not win pucks on the wall, and is separated from possession by a determined defenceman.

12 penalty minutes over 82 games. The durability is genuinely excellent — eight consecutive seasons above 68 games.

The Intangibles

A Cup at 20, eight seasons in Carolina as the least-discussed useful forward on a very good club, and a free-agent return to the organisation that drafted him.

At 31 he is exactly what he has always been: a 55-point playmaker who needs a shooter and a system. Chicago has one of those and not the other.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,010 minutes

Expected goals
45.7%
17th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
45.4%
13th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 30 for, 51 against. Expected: 32.9 and 39.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
41st
Numbers
17th

The report ranks him 24 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 357 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1010 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
CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.7% — 2.5 above the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 1,010 minutes at five-on-five — 63rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Ilya Mikheyev46.9%45.0%47.4%
Alex Vlasic46.0%45.6%40.7%
Connor Murphy48.0%44.8%44.4%

46.9% together, 45.0% for him apart and 47.4% for Mikheyev 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

166 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 23% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 37% from beyond forty.