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Tyson Foerster
Philadelphia Flyers Right Wing
Twenty goals at 22, on the 86th percentile of chances.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | PHI | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | +2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 20.0 | 16:34 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 77 | 20 | 13 | 33 | 0 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 167 | 12.0 | 17:16 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 85 | 23 | 17 | 40 | +2 | 40 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 182 | 12.6 | 17:12 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
77 games, 20 goals and 13 assists for 33 points, 4 on the power play, 1 shorthanded, 32 penalty minutes, 17:16 a night and even, with 2 game-winners. He took 54.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,105 minutes, the 86th percentile, and his ice went 48-42 against an expectation of 45.32-37.23.
Three goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and five more conceded than they called for. Twenty goals in a first full season, at 22, on the fourth-best chance share among the club’s forwards.
The Finesse Game
238 attempts at a median of 29 feet with 32 per cent of them from inside twenty, 167 of those on goal, converted at 12.0 per cent against a career 12.64 across 182 shots.
The shot is the whole of the game and it is a genuine one — heavy, quick off the blade and accurate from the circles. 17 career assists in 85 games says the passing has not arrived and may not need to.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 215 and took 32 penalty minutes.
40 career penalty minutes in 85 games. He is thick through the chest and holds his ground on the wall and in front of the net, which is where four power-play goals came from on the worst power play in the league. The skating is the part that has to improve.
The Intangibles
Twenty-third overall in 2020, two seasons, 40 points in 85 games and a career plus-2 on a club that has been outscored.
Twenty goals and an 86th percentile chance share in a first full season is as good a rookie line as anything in this edition that did not come with a top-five pick attached.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,105 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.9%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.3%
- 86th 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: 48 for, 42 against. Expected: 45.3 and 37.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 26 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 437 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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
2023-24 · 1105 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, 2023-24
- The club
- PHI took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.9% — 2.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,105 minutes at five-on-five — 73rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Konecny | 58.5% | 52.6% | 51.0% |
| Travis Sanheim | 58.4% | 52.8% | 50.6% |
| Cam York | 59.7% | 52.3% | 49.9% |
58.5% together, 52.6% for him apart and 51.0% for Konecny apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
238 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.