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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.
50.3 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 17-33 against an expectation of 20.07-19.80, 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.
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
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
34.2% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 97th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**Undrafted**, signed out of the Ontario league in 2022, and he scored in his first NHL playoff game a year later.”
“**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.”
“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.”
“He goes into the scrum and he draws the response.”
“**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.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 560 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.3%
- 56th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.9%
- 33rd 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: 17 for, 33 against. Expected: 20.1 and 19.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 20 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 63 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 40th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.84 a game
- Distance
- 1.57 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.9 mph
- 71st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
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 · 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 50.3% — 3.1 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 | 46.2% | 55.5% | 45.6% |
| Yanni Gourde | 53.0% | 48.6% | 51.0% |
| Adam Larsson | 55.2% | 47.2% | 45.4% |
46.2% together, 55.5% for him apart and 45.6% 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.