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Will Cuylle
New York Rangers Left Wing
20 goals, 42 penalty minutes and plus-12 at 23, on a third line, in his second full season.
| 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 | NYR | 82 | 20 | 25 | 45 | +12 | 42 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 152 | 13.2 | 15:05 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 167 | 33 | 33 | 66 | +7 | 108 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 272 | 12.1 | 12:58 |
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
20 goals and 25 assists in all 82 games — 45 points, plus-12 on a club that was outscored on special teams all year, at 15:05 a night with 42 penalty minutes.
47.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 25th percentile, across 1,028 minutes, with the on-ice goals 51-43 against an expectation of 40-43.56. He got the result his chances deserved, which on this roster makes him unusual.
The Finesse Game
20 goals on 152 shots at 13.2 per cent, and the shot chart explains all of it: 45 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet at a median of 23. He scores from where a large man is supposed to score and he gets there under his own power.
The passing is the limit. 25 assists is honest depth production and there is no evidence of a playmaker underneath it; he is a finisher and a forechecker, and asking him to carry a line would be asking for the thing he does not have.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 212, and this is the identity. He is the first man in on the forecheck and he arrives to hit rather than to angle, he finishes every check available to him, and he wins the wall against defencemen.
42 penalty minutes in 82 games is the right number for how he plays — an edge that costs a little and is worth more than it costs. He does not cross the line and he does not take the retaliation penalty.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick who has now scored 33 goals in 167 NHL games before his 24th birthday, on a fifteen-minute assignment.
He is the most straightforwardly encouraging player in this chapter: young, cheap, heavy, and improving in a straight line. The projection is a genuine top-six power winger, and it depends entirely on whether the hands catch up to the body.
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
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He is the first man in on the forecheck and he arrives to hit rather than to angle, he finishes every check available to him, and he wins the wall against defencemen.”
“He is the first man in on the forecheck and he arrives to hit rather than to angle, he finishes every check available to him, and he wins the wall against defencemen.”
“he wins the wall against defencemen.”
“He does not cross the line and he does not take the retaliation penalty.”
“25 assists is honest depth production and there is no evidence of a playmaker underneath it”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,028 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 34th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.4%
- 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: 51 for, 43 against. Expected: 40.0 and 43.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 32 points above where the numbers do. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 62nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.28 a game
- Distance
- 2.39 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.8 mph
- 57th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 1028 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
- NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 0.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,028 minutes at five-on-five — 65th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| K'Andre Miller | 49.1% | 47.1% | 48.5% |
| Filip Chytil | 52.8% | 45.1% | 52.3% |
| Mika Zibanejad | 50.1% | 47.0% | 47.9% |
49.1% together, 47.1% for him apart and 48.5% for Miller apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
217 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.