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Ty Dellandrea

One goal in 68 games, 59 penalty minutes, and a 41.0 per cent chance share.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2020-21	DAL	26	3	2	5	0	23	2	0	0	31	9.7	12:29
2021-22	DAL	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	10:37
2022-23	DAL	82	9	19	28	+9	54	0	0	2	92	9.8	14:12
2023-24	DAL	42	2	7	9	-10	23	0	0	0	53	3.8	12:40
2024-25	SJS	68	1	7	8	-31	59	0	0	0	50	2.0	11:48
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	219	15	35	50	-33	159	2	0	2	227	6.6	12:56

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

1 goal and 7 assists in 68 games — 8 points at 11:48 a night, minus-31, with 59 penalty minutes.

38.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 3rd percentile. His ice went 12-41 against an expectation of 19.16-30.75 — six goals better than expected for and eight worse against, on the club’s fourth line.

The Finesse Game

50 shot attempts and 1 goal — a 2.0 per cent conversion, which is the lowest of any forward in this edition who played fifty games. He shoots from the right places and nothing goes in: 36 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet.

7 assists in 68 games. There is no offensive game and 50 points in 219 NHL games says there has not been one since he was drafted.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 185 and he plays hard for the weight. He forechecks first, he finishes checks, and he does not back out of anything.

59 penalty minutes in 68 games is a high rate for a fourth-line centre and a share of it is the second penalty in a sequence. He is an irritant and that is most of what he is for.

The Intangibles

Thirteenth overall in 2018 by Dallas and traded to San Jose in the summer of 2024 for a fourth-round pick, which is the market’s verdict on six years of development.

219 games and 50 points. He is 25 and this is close to the last year in which a first-round pedigree buys him a job.

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.

a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

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.

forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“He forechecks first, he finishes checks, and he does not back out of anything.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He forechecks first, he finishes checks, and he does not back out of anything.”
agitatora strength· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“He is an irritant and that is most of what he is for.”
retaliatesa strength· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“**59 penalty minutes in 68 games** is a high rate for a fourth-line centre and a share of it is the second penalty in a sequence.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 685 minutes

Expected goals: 38.4%; 1st pct
Shot attempts: 41.5%; 2nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 12 for, 41 against. Expected: 19.2 and 30.8.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

17th

Numbers

1st

The two rank him within 16 points of one another. 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.

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 — 66 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 · 68 games

Top speed: 22.9 mph; 79th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.84 a game
Distance: 1.96 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.7 mph; 50th 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 · 685 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: SJS took 44.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 38.4% — 5.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 685 minutes at five-on-five — 27th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mario Ferraro	39.4%	37.7%	47.9%
Carl Grundstrom	40.4%	37.3%	55.7%
Nico Sturm	43.9%	36.0%	47.5%

39.4% together, 37.7% for him apart and 47.9% for Ferraro apart. Ferraro was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.

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

87 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 28% from beyond forty.