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Tye Kartye
Seattle Kraken Left Wing
Undrafted, 43 penalty minutes in 63 games at under ten minutes a night, and the best chance share of any forward on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | SEA | 77 | 11 | 9 | 20 | -1 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 109 | 10.1 | 11:50 |
| 2024-25 | SEA | 63 | 6 | 7 | 13 | -14 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 10.7 | 9:41 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 140 | 17 | 16 | 33 | -15 | 80 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 165 | 10.3 | 10:52 |
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
6 goals and 7 assists in 63 games — 13 points at 9:41 a night, minus-14, with 43 penalty minutes and a shorthanded goal.
53.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 80th percentile — the best mark of any forward on this roster, across 560 minutes. His ice went 21-24 against an expectation of 20.89-18.46, which is a fourth line that was winning the play and losing the scoreboard.
The Finesse Game
56 attempts at a median of 34 feet with 28 per cent from inside 20 and 34 per cent from beyond 40, and 6 goals. There is not much here and there does not need to be.
7 assists in 63 games. He is a straight-line forechecker who puts the puck at the net, and the offensive game has not developed beyond that in two seasons.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 202 and thickly built. He hits everything and he finishes every check available to him, which at nine and a half minutes a night is the entire job description.
43 penalty minutes in 63 games is a very high rate for a fourth-line winger and a share of it is the extra shove. He goes into the scrum and he draws the response.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, signed out of the Ontario league in 2022, and he scored in his first NHL playoff game a year later.
140 games and 33 points. He is 24, the chance share is genuinely good, and on a club that is 29th in the league at generating chances a fourth-line winger at 53.1 per cent deserves a longer look than nine minutes.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 560 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.1%
- 80th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.5%
- 37th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 21 for, 24 against. Expected: 20.9 and 18.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 44 points above where the report does. 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 — 70 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 · 560 minutes at five-on-five
- Mitchell Stephensoff the roster22%
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
- SEA took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.1% — 5.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 560 minutes at five-on-five — 20th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Tanev | 48.4% | 59.0% | 46.0% |
| Yanni Gourde | 53.6% | 52.7% | 52.6% |
| Adam Larsson | 61.1% | 48.4% | 43.7% |
48.4% together, 59.0% for him apart and 46.0% for Tanev apart. He was better away from Tanev, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Tanev.
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
79 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 28% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 34% from beyond forty.