{"id":758620,"date":"2026-06-24T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/758620\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:14:10","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-kyrou-can-bounce-back-after-trade-to-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/758620\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats: Kyrou can bounce back after trade to Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL.com&#8217;s fantasy staff continues to cover the latest trends and storylines in the League through the lens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL EDGE<\/a> puck and player tracker stats. Today, we look at three underlying reasons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/jordan-kyrou-8479385\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Kyrou<\/a>\u00a0could bounce back after being traded to the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>1. Midrange goals<\/p>\n<p>Kyrou was acquired by the Capitals from the St. Louis Blues on June 23, giving him a chance to rebound offensively for a potential fringe playoff team in the Metropolitan Division. Washington, which finished second in the NHL standings and won its division just two seasons ago, adds a 28-year-old goal-scorer who could slot into either of their top two lines and power-play units.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1994-95, Kyrou was one of three Blues players with three straight 30-goal seasons; the others were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/vladimir-tarasenko-8475765\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a> (five straight from 2014-15 to 2018-19) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/keith-tkachuk-8458229\" title=\"Keith Tkachuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Tkachuk<\/a>\u00a0(three straight from 2001-02 to 2003-04). Kyrou has a chance to boost Washington\u2019s offense; the Capitals ranked 15th in goals per game (3.18) and 25th on the power play (17.8) this season and missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2024-25 season (when Kyrou scored 36 goals with St. Louis), he ranked among the NHL\u2019s top 10 in both midrange shots on goal (111; tied for sixth) and midrange goals (16; tied for seventh). From 2022-23 to 2024-25, Kyrou scored 29 snap shot goals, which was tied with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/alex-ovechkin-8471214\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a>\u00a0and others for 11th in the NHL over that span. During the 2022-23 season (when Kyrou scored career-high 37 goals with Blues), he ranked fourth in the entire League in midrange goals (20).<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin, the NHL\u2019s all-time leading goal scorer (929) and Washington\u2019s longtime captain, ranked highly in midrange shots on goal (108; tied for sixth) this season but took a step back in midrange goals (nine; 89th percentile) compared to 2024-25 (16; tied with Kyrou among League\u2019s top 10). The Capitals also have elite goal-scoring defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/jakob-chychrun-8479345\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakob Chychrun<\/a> (leads position with 26 midrange goals over past two seasons combined) but, as a team, only ranked 18th in midrange goals this season (77).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL.com&#8217;s fantasy staff continues to cover the latest trends and storylines in the League through the lens of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-758620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}