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19

Troy Terry

Anaheim Ducks Right Wing

55 points on the best line this club had, and a minus-8 goal differential to show for it.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2017-18ANA20000000030.010:13
2018-19ANA324913+822002516.013:57
2019-20ANA4741115-56000735.514:31
2020-21ANA4871320-1180006910.114:42
2021-22ANA75373067-112680719219.318:14
2022-23ANA70233861-82250318812.219:22
2023-24ANA76203454-102440517211.618:17
2024-25ANA7721345502040418811.218:51
2025-26 so far—————————————
Career—427116169285-271182301991012.817:22

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

21 goals and 34 assists in 77 games for 55 points, even, on 18:51 a night and 188 shots — the leading scorer on the roster.

48.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 41st percentile, which is the best share of any forward here. His on-ice goals were 44-42 against an expected 50-52, which is a line that was outscored despite creating as much as it allowed.

The Finesse Game

The skill is the passing. He holds pucks on the wall longer than his size should allow and finds a seam that is not obviously there, and 34 assists on a club that scored 221 goals is a real total.

The shot is good and streaky. 11.2 per cent is close to his career rate, 34 per cent of his attempts come from inside 20, and the puck skills in tight are the best on the roster. What has never developed is a rush game — he is a player who arrives with the puck already in the zone.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 193, and he is not physical. He avoids the wall, does not forecheck heavily, and gives up possession rather than absorbing a hit to keep it.

20 penalty minutes across a full season. The body has held up — four consecutive seasons above 70 games — which for a skill player of this size is worth something.

The Intangibles

Seven seasons in one organisation, all of them losing ones, and he has been the club’s leading scorer in most of them without ever being spoken of as a franchise player.

At 28 that is now the profile: a genuine top-six winger who cannot carry a line by himself, on a contract that is fair and will look poor if the club is still losing when it expires. He is the sort of player a rebuilding team trades in February.

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.

  • drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there

    48.7% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 42.8% for his club in the minutes he sat: +5.9, 93rd percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

  • playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes

    “He holds pucks on the wall longer than his size should allow and finds a seam that is not obviously there”

  • transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control

    “What has never developed is a rush game — he is a player who arrives with the puck already in the zone.”

  • wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line

    “He avoids the wall”

  • forechecks-aggressivelyhe lacks it· first man in, and on the puck

    “does not forecheck heavily”

  • punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally

    “6 feet and 193, and he is not physical.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,096 minutes

Expected goals
48.7%
41st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48.9%
42nd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 42 against. Expected: 49.8 and 52.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
72nd
Numbers
41st

The report ranks him 31 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 — 76 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 · 77 games

Top speed
22.6 mph
67th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
2.35 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
3.02 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
85.5 mph
49th pct

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 · 1096 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
ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.7% — 4.1 above the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 1,096 minutes at five-on-five — 75th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Frank Vatrano51.2%37.5%34.9%
Ryan Strome49.9%44.9%35.8%
Radko Gudas50.7%47.4%43.7%

51.2% together, 37.5% for him apart and 34.9% for Vatrano apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

278 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.