Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Ty Dellandrea

San Jose Sharks Center

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

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21DAL26325023200319.712:29
2021-22DAL1000-1000010.010:37
2022-23DAL8291928+954002929.814:12
2023-24DAL42279-1023000533.812:40
2024-25SJS68178-3159000502.011:48
2025-26 so far
Career219153550-331592022276.612:56

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.

41.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 3rd percentile. His ice went 27-38 against an expectation of 20.72-29.79 — 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.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 685 minutes

Expected goals
41%
3rd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
42.4%
4th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 27 for, 38 against. Expected: 20.7 and 29.8.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
17th
Numbers
3rd

The two rank him within 14 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.

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 41.0% — 3.2 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

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Mario Ferraro42.0%40.4%47.2%
Carl Grundstrom43.9%39.6%51.9%
Nico Sturm43.2%40.1%44.9%

42.0% together, 40.4% for him apart and 47.2% 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.