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Tyler Bertuzzi
Chicago Blackhawks Left Wing
23 goals on a 17.6 per cent rate, 51 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and a minus-39.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 488 | 136 | 171 | 307 | -76 | 299 | 35 | 1 | 15 | 944 | 14.4 | 16:58 |
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
23 goals and 23 assists in 82 games for 46 points, minus-39 — the worst rating on the club — on 16:00 a night with 10 on the power play.
41.0 per cent at five-on-five, the 5th percentile. 51 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 19, which is the shot chart of a man who only goes to the net, and 17.6 per cent conversion is high even for those locations.
The Finesse Game
Everything happens within 20 feet of the goaltender. He does not carry the puck, does not create off the rush, and does not make a difficult pass; he stands in the blue paint, takes the punishment, and puts in what arrives.
131 shots is a modest volume and 23 goals from it is a very good rate that will fall. 23 assists is a fair reflection of what he does for other people, which is occupy a defenceman.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 200, and among the most irritating forwards in the league. He cross-checks, he talks, he stands where he is not wanted, and he does not leave.
51 penalty minutes over 82 games. The knee and back problems earlier in his career appear to be behind him — three consecutive full seasons.
The Intangibles
Four organisations, a reputation as a genuine playoff performer, and a free-agent contract on a rebuilding club that raised eyebrows.
At 30 the projection is 18 goals from the net front and a great deal of noise. The minus-39 is not a fair verdict on him — nobody on this roster escaped — but a 4th-percentile chance share on a large contract is not a good combination either.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“he stands in the blue paint, takes the punishment, and puts in what arrives.”
“He does not carry the puck, does not create off the rush, and does not make a difficult pass”
“does not make a difficult pass”
“6-2 and 200, and among the most irritating forwards in the league.”
“He cross-checks, he talks, he stands where he is not wanted, and he does not leave.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,021 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41%
- 5th pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.6%
- 5th 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: 34 for, 55 against. Expected: 33.2 and 47.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 71 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 77 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 21.4 mph
- 17th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.24 a game
- Distance
- 2.36 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.8 mph
- 42nd 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 · 1021 minutes at five-on-five
- Frank Nazar24%
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
- CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.0% — 2.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,021 minutes at five-on-five — 64th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connor Bedard | 39.5% | 41.9% | 42.7% |
| Taylor Hall | 46.4% | 38.5% | 50.7% |
| Alex Vlasic | 37.4% | 42.7% | 44.3% |
39.5% together, 41.9% for him apart and 42.7% for Bedard apart. Bedard 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
207 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.