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Tyler Myers

Vancouver Canucks Defense

Six-foot-eight, 74 penalty minutes at 35, and 1,066 games.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2009-10BUF82113748+133230110410.623:44
2010-11BUF801027370403051228.222:27
2011-12BUF5581523+533301849.522:29
2012-13BUF39358-832102486.321:19
2013-14BUF6291322-2658300999.121:54
2014-15BUF/WPG7172128-6772001245.724:39
2015-16WPG7391827+6720001406.422:37
2016-17WPG11235+5130001612.522:12
2017-18WPG8263036+9483131504.021:26
2018-19WPG8092231+11630131565.820:21
2019-20VAN6861521-7491111344.521:30
2020-21VAN5561521-8510131095.522:05
2021-22VAN8211718+15660001280.821:59
2022-23VAN7811617-16760001001.020:54
2023-24VAN7752429+1677020935.418:57
2024-25VAN7161824+274010876.920:48
2025-26 so far
Career106699296395+118611971916945.821:48

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 18 assists in 71 games — 24 points at 20:48 a night, plus-2, with a shorthanded goal and 74 penalty minutes.

49.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 43rd percentile, across 1,236 minutes. His ice went 50-55 against an expectation of 44.70-45.88 — five goals better than expected for and nine worse against.

The Finesse Game

87 attempts at a median of 54 feet with 69 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 6.9 per cent for 6 goals.

18 assists. The first pass is functional and the puck game has always been the least reliable part of him; under pressure the decision is sometimes the wrong one, which after sixteen seasons is unlikely to change.

The Physical Game

6-8 and 229 and among the tallest men ever to play in the league. He defends the rush with reach that is genuinely difficult to get around, he clears his crease, and he finishes checks that hurt.

74 penalty minutes in 71 games is a high rate and a share of it is the stick foul that follows a man this size being beaten to the outside. He crosses the line as well, and he has 861 penalty minutes across his career.

The Intangibles

Twelfth overall in 2008, a Calder Trophy at 20 in Buffalo, and 1,066 games and 395 points across three organisations.

He is 35 and he has played more than twenty minutes a night in fifteen of his sixteen seasons. Whatever the arguments about the contract, the availability has never been in question.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,236 minutes

Expected goals
49.3%
44th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47.1%
25th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 50 for, 55 against. Expected: 44.7 and 45.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
36th
Numbers
44th

The two rank him within 8 points of one another. 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.

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 · 1236 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, 2024-25

The club
VAN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.3% — 0.2 above the club he did it on.
The role
Second pair, 1,236 minutes at five-on-five — 88th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Quinn Hughes54.3%47.1%53.0%
Conor Garland54.3%47.2%53.0%
Brock Boeser44.5%51.1%50.5%

54.3% together, 47.1% for him apart and 53.0% for Hughes apart. He was worse away from Hughes, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Hughes 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

148 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 36 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.