Tyler Bertuzzi

32 goals from a median of 13 feet, which is the shortest in this book.

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

2016-17	DET	7	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	9:06
2017-18	DET	48	7	17	24	-7	39	1	0	1	83	8.4	14:24
2018-19	DET	73	21	26	47	+11	36	3	0	4	131	16.0	16:31
2019-20	DET	71	21	27	48	-23	40	3	0	1	129	16.3	19:19
2020-21	DET	9	5	2	7	0	4	3	0	1	20	25.0	19:37
2021-22	DET	68	30	32	62	-11	47	6	1	5	180	16.7	19:52
2022-23	DET/BOS	50	8	22	30	-8	29	4	0	0	107	7.5	16:29
2023-24	TOR	80	21	22	43	+2	53	5	0	2	160	13.1	16:03
2024-25	CHI	82	23	23	46	-39	51	10	0	1	131	17.6	16:00
2025-26	CHI	79	32	26	58	-16	42	11	0	3	164	19.5	18:27
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	567	168	197	365	-92	341	46	1	18	1108	15.2	17:10

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

32 goals and 26 assists in 79 games — 58 points, minus-16, at 18:27 a night with 11 power-play goals.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the most extreme of any forward covered here. 61 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, with a median of 13 — level with Zach Benson for the shortest average distance in the edition, and Benson is 177 pound winger who gets there on quickness.

Bertuzzi gets there by refusing to leave. He is not fast, he does not beat anybody wide, and he scored 32 goals on the league’s worst offensive team by standing in the blue paint and taking whatever came.

The hands in tight are very good. Everything else about the offensive game is ordinary.

The Physical Game

6-2, 200, and genuinely unpleasant. 42 penalty minutes, a willingness to cross-check and be cross-checked, and an appetite for the net-front work that most skilled forwards have priced themselves out of.

This is the whole player. Take away the willingness to stand there and there is no 30-goal season.

The Intangibles

45.0 per cent of the expected goals, 14th percentile — which on this roster made him one of the better forwards, because the club was 43.2 per cent as a team.

He is 31 with 168 career goals and this was easily his best season. 8 points in his last 10.

He is also the clearest example in this book of a player built for a tight series: a heavy forward who scores from 13 feet does not need open ice, and open ice is the first thing a playoff series takes away.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
66.9% of his attempts in the slot, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,158 minutes

Expected goals: 45%; 15th pct
Shot attempts: 47.3%; 29th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 57 for, 56 against. Expected: 48.1 and 58.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

15th

The report ranks him 58 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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 · 79 games

Top speed: 21.1 mph; 12th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.14 a game
Distance: 2.69 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.8 mph; 43rd 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 4 assists, 20 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1158 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: CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.0% — 1.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,158 minutes at five-on-five — 78th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Frank Nazar	42.8%	46.3%	42.5%
Alex Vlasic	45.4%	44.8%	38.8%
Louis Crevier	44.7%	45.1%	40.1%

42.8% together, 46.3% for him apart and 42.5% for Nazar apart. He was better away from Nazar, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Nazar.

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

242 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 32 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 61% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 10% from beyond forty.