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Teuvo Teravainen

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

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	CHI	82	15	43	58	-23	12	7	0	0	111	13.5	17:04
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	752	170	347	517	+84	138	54	7	21	1557	10.9	16:50

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.

46.2 per cent at five-on-five, the 21st percentile — which on this roster is the second-best figure among the regular forwards. His on-ice goals were 37-49 against an expected 34-40, 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 226 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.

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
36.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
disciplined· stays out of the box
0.15 penalty minutes a game over 82, 9th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“The passing is the whole player and it is very good.”
forechecks-aggressivelyhe lacks it· first man in, and on the puck
“He does not forecheck with force, does not win pucks on the wall, and is separated from possession by a determined defenceman.”
wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“does not win pucks on the wall”
hard-to-movehe lacks it· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“is separated from possession by a determined defenceman”
transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control
“There is no rush game and there never was.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,010 minutes

Expected goals: 46.2%; 21st pct
Shot attempts: 45.6%; 15th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 37 for, 49 against. Expected: 34.2 and 39.8.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

42nd

Numbers

21st

The report ranks him 21 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: 21.2 mph; 13th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.23 a game
Distance: 2.70 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.2 mph; 80th pct

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 · 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 46.2% — 3.0 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

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ilya Mikheyev	48.2%	44.9%	48.1%
Alex Vlasic	46.4%	46.1%	41.4%
Connor Murphy	50.0%	44.5%	44.7%

48.2% together, 44.9% for him apart and 48.1% for Mikheyev apart. He was worse away from Mikheyev, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Mikheyev 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

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.