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Tyson Foerster
Philadelphia Flyers Right Wing
25 goals at a 17.6 per cent conversion, the highest rate of any regular in this chapter.
| 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 | PHI | 81 | 25 | 18 | 43 | -9 | 49 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 142 | 17.6 | 16:52 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 166 | 48 | 35 | 83 | -7 | 89 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 324 | 14.8 | 17:02 |
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
25 goals and 18 assists in 81 games — 43 points at 16:52 a night, with 6 power-play goals and 49 penalty minutes.
51.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 68th percentile. His ice went 38-53 against an expectation of 40.60-37.99 — fifteen goals conceded above expectation with him on the ice, which is a number no forward earns on his own.
The Finesse Game
142 attempts at a median of 23 feet with 43 per cent from inside 20, converting at 17.6 per cent — the highest rate of any regular here. The shot is heavy and the release is quick and it is the reason he is in the league.
18 assists in 81 games. He is a finisher and the passing is functional; he needs somebody to find him and he gets to the right place to be found.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 215 and he plays a heavy, honest game. He goes to the net, he takes the cross-check to stay there, and he forechecks properly.
49 penalty minutes in 81 games is a high rate for a scorer and most of it is the extra shove after the whistle. He is not an agitator by trade but he does not back out of one.
The Intangibles
Twenty-third overall in 2020 and 166 games in, with 20 and 25 goals in his two full seasons.
He is 23. On a club that finished 27th in goals scored, a winger who converts at that rate from that distance is one of the few things about the last two seasons that has gone to plan.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,080 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.7%
- 69th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.9%
- 22nd 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: 38 for, 53 against. Expected: 40.6 and 38.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 — 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1080 minutes at five-on-five
- Noah Cates66%
- Bobby Brink59%
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
- PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.7% — 0.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,080 minutes at five-on-five — 72nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noah Cates | 52.9% | 48.2% | 43.3% |
| Bobby Brink | 53.6% | 48.3% | 49.9% |
| Travis Sanheim | 49.5% | 53.9% | 55.7% |
52.9% together, 48.2% for him apart and 43.3% for Cates 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
219 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 24 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.