Walker Duehr

Undrafted out of Minnesota State, 92 NHL games, and no penalty minutes in 24 of them.

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	CGY/SJS	24	2	1	3	-11	0	0	0	0	15	13.3	8:48
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	92	11	10	21	-14	10	0	0	2	91	12.1	8:55

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

2 goals and 1 assist in 24 games across Calgary and San Jose — 3 points at 8:48 a night, minus-11, on 15 shots and no penalty minutes at all.

Twenty-four games split between a club fighting for a playoff spot and the worst club in the league. A minus-11 in that time is mostly San Jose.

The Finesse Game

15 attempts in 24 games and 2 goals. 21 points in 92 career NHL games.

1 assist. There is nothing here. He is a thirteenth forward and the offensive record says so plainly.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 210 and he forechecks hard, which at this end of a roster is the whole job. He finishes checks and he goes to the net.

No penalty minutes in 24 games, and 10 in 92 career games. He does not foul and he does not retaliate, which is not really a virtue at eight minutes a night.

The Intangibles

Undrafted out of Minnesota State and 92 NHL games across four seasons of moving between the American League and here.

He is 27. Winnipeg signed him in the summer as organisational depth, and the honest reading is that he is a very good American League forward who has had 92 chances to prove otherwise.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

undrafteda strength· arrived without a pick attached
“**Undrafted out of Minnesota State** and 92 NHL games across four seasons of moving between the American League and here.”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“6-2 and 210 and he forechecks hard, which at this end of a roster is the whole job. He finishes checks and he goes to the net.”
fouls-when-beatena strength· the stick foul that follows losing a step
“**No penalty minutes in 24 games, and 10 in 92 career games.** He does not foul and he does not retaliate, which is not really a virtue at eight minutes a night.”
retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“He does not foul and he does not retaliate, which is not really a virtue at eight minutes a night.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 206 minutes

Expected goals: 45.2%; 17th pct
Shot attempts: 43.1%; 6th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 4 for, 15 against. Expected: 6.9 and 8.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

21st

Numbers

17th

The two rank him within 4 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 — 67 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 24 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 71st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.13 a game
Distance: 1.48 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.0 mph; 32nd pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with CGY · 136 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: SJS took 44.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.2% — 1.0 above the club he did it on.
The role: 206 minutes at five-on-five — 0th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Kevin Rooney	33.1%	52.6%	44.8%
Ryan Lomberg	40.3%	47.5%	42.8%
Jake Bean	48.1%	44.0%	48.5%

33.1% together, 52.6% for him apart and 44.8% for Rooney apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

22 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 36% from beyond forty.