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Centre · #52

Sean Kuraly

Boston Bruins Columbus Blue Jackets(traded during the season)
Age
33
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
97 kg
Born
Niagara Falls, USA
Draft
2011, round 5, #133 (SJS)

Career · 2016–17 to 2026–27

Games
647
Goals
70
Points
175
TOI per game
13:35
xGF% (5v5)
46.7%
Goals above expected
−18.4
ShowAll teamsBoston BruinsColumbus Blue Jackets

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2016–17BOS8011−19:12110.0%00.651.8%
2017–18BOS756814−512:151344.5%012.053.4%
2018–19BOS7181321+613:461346.0%010.850.9%
2019–20BOS6961723−213:17956.3%17.845.7%
2020–21BOS47459−1014:04884.5%06.746.7%
2021–22CBJ77141630+215:5212111.6%113.244.5%
2022–23CBJ7111920−2815:0410011.0%111.241.0%
2023–24CBJ629918−513:44929.8%07.743.6%
2024–25CBJ8261117−411:46886.8%08.846.2%
2025–26BOS8261622013:201105.5%09.248.7%
2026–27BOS3000012:1360.0%00.359.2%
Total2 teams64770105175−4713:359797.2%388.446.7%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.8100200300400500600
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Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

16th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.4825th pct
  • Assists /600.7233rd pct
  • ixG /600.6028th pct
  • Goals above expected−18.45th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.7%31st pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.7%36th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.831st pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.1920th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game13:3555th pct
  • PP time share1.9%16th pct
  • Offensive zone starts22.9%2nd pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%40th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Michael McCarronNSH/MIN0.93
  2. Casey CizikasNYI0.91
  3. Kyle BrodziakSTL/EDM0.90
  4. Patrick BrownPHI/OTT0.89
  5. Brad RichardsonARI0.89
  6. Blake ComeauCOL/DAL0.88

Faceoffs

How often Kuraly wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1949+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

50.5%

3241–3180 · #96 of 211 regulars, 55th percentile

Against an average centre

50.7%

Opponents won 50.2% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.8% against them.

Wins above average

+46

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

10.0

6,421 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

50%1343 · +0.755%760 · +1.137%308 · +1.855%207 · +0.450%167 · +1.651%252 · +0.242%152 · +0.553%1946 · +2.048%1286 · +2.6Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone50.1% 535–533
  • Neutral zone50.3% 1067–1054
  • Defensive zone50.7% 1639–1593

By strength

  • Even strength51.7% 2696–2523
  • Power play56.4% 57–44
  • Shorthanded44.3% 487–613

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +8 after a win, −24 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.6 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–17333.3%36.3%
2017–1872146.5%46.3%
2018–1953153.9%53.4%
2019–2052148.8%48.4%
2020–2139957.4%56.2%
2021–22127049.4%49.6%
2022–23114249.6%50.8%
2023–2456548.1%49.2%
2024–2558254.3%54.5%
2025–2666251.1%51.6%
2026–272560.0%60.6%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−18.4 goals above expected

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Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−500+50+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed35.4 km/h81st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph223rd pct
  • Hardest shot106.1 km/h19th pct
  • Distance skated10 km31st pct
  • Offensive-zone time34.6%4th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

36.3 km/h59th pct

▼ −0.8 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.2 km/h, 56th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 36.6 km/h, 73rd percentile (71 games)2023–24: 36.6 km/h, 73rd percentile (62 games)2024–25: 37.1 km/h, 82nd percentile (82 games)2025–26: 36.3 km/h, 59th percentile (82 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.237th pct

▼ −3.5 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 7.0, 68th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 7.3, 74th percentile (71 games)2023–24: 6.4, 65th percentile (62 games)2024–25: 7.8, 73rd percentile (82 games)2025–26: 4.2, 37th percentile (82 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.4 km43rd pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.2 km, 84th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 15.7 km, 64th percentile (71 games)2023–24: 15.7 km, 63rd percentile (62 games)2024–25: 15.9 km, 70th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 15.4 km, 43rd percentile (82 games)

Hardest shot

140.5 km/h57th pct

▲ +5.8 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 148.0 km/h, 69th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 136.5 km/h, 19th percentile (71 games)2023–24: 144.4 km/h, 61st percentile (62 games)2024–25: 134.7 km/h, 23rd percentile (82 games)2025–26: 140.5 km/h, 57th percentile (82 games)

Offensive-zone time

37.4%5th pct

▼ −1.2 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.5%, 1st percentile (77 games)2022–23: 35.3%, 1st percentile (71 games)2023–24: 37.6%, 7th percentile (62 games)2024–25: 38.6%, 11th percentile (82 games)2025–26: 37.4%, 5th percentile (82 games)