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Tyler Tucker
St. Louis Blues Defense
Fifty-five penalty minutes in 38 games, no shot attempts at all from inside 20 feet, and a 200th-overall pick.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | STL | 26 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -9 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4.8 | 14:39 |
| 2023-24 | STL | 26 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5.9 | 12:27 |
| 2024-25 | STL | 38 | 3 | 4 | 7 | +4 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 9.1 | 14:35 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 90 | 5 | 8 | 13 | -4 | 128 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 7.0 | 13:59 |
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
3 goals and 4 assists in 38 games — 7 points at 14:35 a night, plus-4, with 55 penalty minutes.
52.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 77th percentile, across 487 minutes. His ice went 24-20 against an expectation of 18.84-16.89, which is a third pairing that won the play and the scoreboard on a small sample.
The Finesse Game
33 attempts at a median of 55 feet with 86 per cent from beyond 40 and none at all from inside 20. He shoots from the blue line and nowhere else, and 3 goals is a career high.
The first pass is simple and it is the whole puck game. He does not carry it and under a heavy forecheck he chips it out.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 204 and this is the entire case for him. He hits everything, he blocks shots, and he fights.
55 penalty minutes in 38 games, and 128 in 90 career games, which is among the highest rates in the league. He crosses the line on purpose and the club dresses him on the nights it expects to need that.
The Intangibles
A seventh-round pick in 2018 — 200th overall — and 90 NHL games in across three seasons.
He is 25. A third-pairing defenceman who fights is a role that has been shrinking for twenty years and there are still clubs that keep one.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 487 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.7%
- 77th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.2%
- 67th 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: 24 for, 20 against. Expected: 18.8 and 16.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 60 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 — 66 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 · 487 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Suteroff the roster68%
- Justin Faulk14%
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
- STL took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.7% — 1.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 487 minutes at five-on-five — 16th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Suter | 51.2% | 56.4% | 47.1% |
| Oskar Sundqvist | 45.1% | 55.6% | 54.1% |
| Alexey Toropchenko | 48.4% | 54.2% | 48.1% |
51.2% together, 56.4% for him apart and 47.1% for Suter apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Suter behind.
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
51 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 45 feet. 0% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 86% from beyond forty.