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Walker Duehr
Calgary Flames Right Wing
Undrafted, six foot two, and seven goals for on his ice against twenty-one.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | CGY | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 8:47 |
| 2022-23 | CGY | 27 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 14.9 | 10:12 |
| 2023-24 | CGY | 40 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6.9 | 8:07 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 68 | 9 | 9 | 18 | -3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 76 | 11.8 | 8:57 |
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
2 goals and 5 assists in 40 games — 7 points at 8:07 a night, minus-3, on 29 shots at 6.9 per cent, and 6 penalty minutes.
44.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 322 minutes, the 15th percentile. His ice went 7-21 against an expectation of 11.58-14.62 — five goals of scoring missing and six conceded above expectation, in three hundred minutes.
The Finesse Game
29 attempts at a median of 24 feet, with 39 per cent from inside 20 and 27 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 6.9 per cent. Nine goals in 68 NHL games.
5 assists. He does not create and the puck does not stay on his stick — the job is to arrive first and put it behind the defence.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 210. He forechecks first and he finishes his checks, which is the whole of what a fourth-line winger at eight minutes a night is asked to do.
6 penalty minutes in 40 games and 10 in 68 for his career is a genuinely low rate for a forward who plays this way, and it is worth naming on a club that spent the sixth-fewest minutes shorthanded in hockey.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Sioux Falls and Minnesota State, and 68 NHL games at 26 after four seasons in the American league.
An undrafted forward who reaches sixty-eight NHL games has beaten the odds, and the fifteenth percentile of chances says he is a thirteenth forward rather than a fourth-liner.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 322 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.2%
- 15th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.6%
- 15th 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: 7 for, 21 against. Expected: 11.6 and 14.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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 · 322 minutes at five-on-five
- Anthony-John (AJ) Greernow FLA43%
- Kevin Rooney40%
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
- CGY took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.2% — 5.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 322 minutes at five-on-five — 7th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Rooney | 46.6% | 42.6% | 47.9% |
| A.J. Greer | 41.0% | 46.8% | 50.2% |
| MacKenzie Weegar | 44.2% | 44.2% | 50.7% |
46.6% together, 42.6% for him apart and 47.9% for Rooney apart. He was worse away from Rooney, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Rooney 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
49 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.