Centre · #37

Kyle Rau

Florida Panthers

Minnesota Wild(traded during the season)

Age: 33
Shoots: Left
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 78 kg
Born: Eden Prairie, USA
Draft: 2011, round 3, #91 (FLA)

Career · 6 seasons

Games: 61
Goals: 2
Points: 7
TOI per game: 9:47
xGF% (5v5): 46.2%
Goals above expected: −3.1

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Season by season

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


2015–16	FLA	9	0	0	0	−1	12:35	15	0.0%	1.4	57.3%
2016–17	FLA	24	2	1	3	−3	9:36	21	9.5%	1.5	42.1%
2017–18	MIN	3	0	1	1	0	11:02	4	0.0%	0.2	40.8%
2018–19	MIN	6	0	1	1	0	7:01	6	0.0%	0.5	59.3%
After a break: 2020–21	MIN	14	0	2	2	−1	9:34	15	0.0%	1.4	45.7%
2021–22	MIN	5	0	0	0	−3	8:49	3	0.0%	0.1	33.7%
Total	2 teams	61	2	5	7	−8	9:47	64	3.1%	5.1	46.2%

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)

Player card

Model-based

How 6 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

14th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

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

Scoring

Extra / AHL

Goals /600.205th pct
Assists /600.5016th pct
ixG /600.5115th pct
Goals above expected−3.132nd pct

Play-driving

4th line

xGF% (5v5)46.2%26th pct
CF% (5v5)47.3%32nd pct
Relative xGF%−6.48th pct
Penalty diff /600.4084th pct

Usage

4th line

TOI per game9:479th pct
PP time share3.5%25th pct
Offensive zone starts50.0%35th pct
Quality of competition23.6%41st 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

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.

−3.1 goals above expected

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

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 speed35.1 km/h34th pct
Speed bursts over 20 mph412th pct
Hardest shot123.1 km/h13th pct
Distance skated11 km11th pct
Offensive-zone time38.1%7th 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

35.1 km/h20th pct

2021–22 only

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.453rd pct

2021–22 only

Distance skated per 60

15.4 km38th pct

2021–22 only

Hardest shot

123.1 km/h1st pct

2021–22 only

Offensive-zone time

38.1%9th pct

2021–22 only