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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Tye Kartye

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Tye Kartye

New York Rangers Left Wing #24

Undrafted, 204 games, and the 16th percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24SEA7711920-13700110910.111:50
2024-25SEA636713-14430105610.79:41
2025-26SEA/NYR6481422-6380005614.311:58
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—204253055-2111801122111.311:13

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

8 goals and 14 assists in 64 games — 22 points, minus-6, at 11:58 a night with 38 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Seattle.

The Finesse Game

Thin and pointed outward. 92 unblocked attempts, 8 goals, median 31 feet with only 32 per cent from inside 20 — one of the few fourth-liners in this book shooting from the perimeter.

55 points in 204 career games. He is not going to score his way up a depth chart.

The Physical Game

5-11, 202, and thick — he forechecks hard and is difficult to knock over. 38 penalty minutes.

The Intangibles

44.5 per cent of the expected goals, 12th percentile, in 679 minutes, with the chances 21.9 to 27.3 against.

Below the line on a Seattle club that was itself below the line.

He is 25, undrafted out of the Ontario league, and has made 204 NHL games out of nothing, which is genuinely difficult. 6 points in his last 10.

New York finished 29th at generating even-strength offence. A fourth-line winger who shoots from 31 feet is not the answer to that, and is not being asked to be.

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

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

    30.4% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 94th percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

  • hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best

    35% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 10th percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 679 minutes

Expected goals
44.5%
13th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47.4%
30th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 27 for, 34 against. Expected: 21.9 and 27.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
27th
Numbers
13th

The two rank him within 14 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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, 2025-26 · 64 games

Top speed
22.0 mph
36th pct

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

Bursts over 20 mph
1.00 a game

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

Distance
1.97 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
86.9 mph
62nd pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

6

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 4 assists, 14 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with SEA · 383 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, 2025-26

The club
NYR took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.5% — 3.5 below the club he did it on.
The role
679 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Conor Sheary48.0%42.4%49.6%
J.T. Miller50.8%42.0%50.5%
Ben Meyers46.1%44.1%50.7%

48.0% together, 42.4% for him apart and 49.6% for Sheary apart. He was worse away from Sheary, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Sheary 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

92 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.