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Will Cuylle
New York Rangers Left Wing
Six foot three, 56 penalty minutes in a first full season at 22, and thirteen goals.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | NYR | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 6:58 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 81 | 13 | 8 | 21 | -3 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 119 | 10.9 | 11:08 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 85 | 13 | 8 | 21 | -5 | 66 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 120 | 10.8 | 10:56 |
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
81 games, 13 goals and 8 assists for 21 points, 1 on the power play, 56 penalty minutes, 11:08 a night and minus-3. He took 48.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 882 minutes, the 39th percentile, and his ice went 29-32 against an expectation of 31.12-33.40.
Two goals of scoring that did not arrive and one fewer conceded than the chances called for. Eighty-one games at eleven minutes a night in a first full season, on a club that finished first, is a real endorsement.
The Finesse Game
155 attempts at a median of 27 feet with 38 per cent from inside 20, 119 on goal, converted at 10.9 per cent.
Eight assists in 81 games. There is very little playmaking and the thirteen goals came from getting to the interior at speed. A hundred and fifty-five attempts from eleven minutes a night is a good rate.
The Physical Game
He hits everything at 6-3 and 212 and finishes every check he starts.
66 career penalty minutes in 85 games at eleven minutes a night is a very high rate. He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, and will fight when it is asked of him.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2020 out of Toronto, two seasons, and 21 points in 85 games, all of it for one organisation.
He is 22 and played eighty-one games on the Presidents’ Trophy winner at eleven minutes a night. A 6-3 winger who hits like this and can score thirteen from a fourth line is exactly what this roster is short of behind its top six.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- 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.
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He hits everything at 6-3 and 212 and finishes every check he starts.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, and will fight when it is asked of him.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, and will fight when it is asked of him.”
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, and will fight when it is asked of him.”
“There is very little playmaking and the thirteen goals came from getting to the interior at speed.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 882 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.2%
- 40th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49%
- 46th 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: 29 for, 32 against. Expected: 31.1 and 33.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 7 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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, 2023-24 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 56th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.14 a game
- Distance
- 1.81 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.1 mph
- 45th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 882 minutes at five-on-five
- Kaapo Kakko36%
- Nick Boninooff the roster26%
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
- NYR took 50.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.2% — 1.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 882 minutes at five-on-five — 47th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaapo Kakko | 46.9% | 49.1% | 50.4% |
| K'Andre Miller | 47.7% | 48.5% | 48.5% |
| Braden Schneider | 46.6% | 49.2% | 50.0% |
46.9% together, 49.1% for him apart and 50.4% for Kakko apart. Kakko was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
155 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.