Returning regular · 2025-26
Arttu Hyry
Dallas Stars · RW · R shot · age 25 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- DAL
- Lane
- RW
- Age
- 25
Production and deployment
Official split unavailable
The live official report did not return a matching player row. The dated roster identity and lane screen remain available; production stays unknown.
Organizational context
2 RW regulars in DAL
The all-team median is 3.5. DAL’s farm system ranks #31 in the maintained two-board consensus.
Questions a GM still has to answer
- How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
- Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
- Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
- What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative and Cup-window effect complete the argument?
Tonight
DAL do not play today
League schedule for 2026-09-29; next league date 2026-09-30.
Latest move: The Dallas Stars assigned F Arttu Hyry to the minors. (2026-09-28).
White noise · as of 2026-09-29 · social 2026-09-29
Arttu Hyry is in the middle of the pack for attention (36th percentile); attention this week is 2.71× his usual
How much he is being talked about: the league's own stories tagged to him, daily pageviews of his Wikipedia article against his own 90-day baseline, posts naming him on the connected networks (Bluesky), and the roster moves and listings that make noise. A measure of attention. Whether it affects a player is his business, and a question the history will let us test later.
Social: 3 posts named him this week on Bluesky · 5 likes, reposts and replies · no baseline yet, it needs a week of readings.
Latest from the league: Arttu Hyry shines as Stars open preseason play with win over Blues (2026-09-20)
Contract · DAL
$0.90M cap hit
2026–27 through 2027–28 · UFA at expiry. Reported
Cup signal › Costs more per point than the position median, but earns it with five-on-five creation or penalty-kill work.
- He did not reach the five-on-five sample (20 games and 10:00 a night at five-on-five), so the rate test cannot pass.
- He kills penalties (2:04 a night), which points do not capture.
- At 0.9% of the cap, almost any NHL production is surplus.
- 8 real points at this cap hit would pass the cost test (he had 4).
Shot quality · 2025-26
Expected goals
CapOrCup's shot model (distance, angle, shot type, strength, rebounds, rushes), trained on 2023-24 and 2024-25 and tested on unseen games (AUC 0.756). Finishing is goals minus expected goals; it is noisy in one season.
Career arc · era-adjusted points per 82 games
Arttu Hyry, season by season
Each dot is one season. The amber bar is what his earlier seasons and his age predicted for that season (80% band), so a dot far above its bar is a season the numbers did not see coming. The shaded band is where most players at his position sit at each age.
Position band: quantile regression (10th/50th/90th) of qualifying seasons on an age spline, weighted for players who drop out.
What the numbers found
No shipped label applies. A label is a measured finding about a run of seasons (for example, a spike that came back to the old level), and it is shown only for label types that passed their test on held-out seasons.
Projection at the draft
No draft projection: projections exist for players drafted from 2005 on who have season lines on file.
Every season
| Season | Age | GP | Level | Expected (80%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23 | 5 | 15.5 | −0.7 to 85.5 |
| 2025-26 | 24 | 20 | 18.9 | 4.5 to 61.7 |
Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-09-29
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at 21 to 24
Careers are compared as league-adjusted points per game by age, over the same ages. The comparables below are the closest lines, and what matters is the spread of what they did next, not any single name.
This player so far: age 15 U16 Mestis 1.23 → age 16 U18 SM-sarja 0.50 → age 17 U18 SM-sarja 0.49 → age 18 U20 SM-liiga 0.38 → age 19 U20 SM-sarja 0.56 → age 20 Liiga 0.21 → age 21 Liiga 0.28 → age 22 Liiga 0.56 → age 23 AHL 0.73 → age 24 NHL 0.25
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Sam MortonC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24 | 0.04 | age 25 AHL 0.29 → age 26 AHL 0.25 |
| Mason ShawC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24 | 0.04 | age 25 NHL 0.15 → age 26 AHL 0.23 → age 27 AHL 0.28 |
| Yakov TreninC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24 | 0.05 | age 25 NHL 0.30 → age 26 NHL 0.31 → age 27 NHL 0.23 → age 28 NHL 0.20 → age 29 NHL 0.28 |
| Paul CotterL · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24 | 0.05 | age 25 NHL 0.28 → age 26 NHL 0.19 |
| Jesper BoqvistC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24 | 0.05 | age 25 NHL 0.30 → age 26 NHL 0.29 → age 27 NHL 0.18 |
| Wilmer SkoogC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24 | 0.05 | age 25 AHL 0.15 → age 26 AHL 0.28 |
| Frederick GaudreauC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24 | 0.05 | age 25 NHL 0.07 → age 26 AHL 0.30 → age 27 NHL 0.53 → age 28 NHL 0.58 → age 29 NHL 0.46 |
| Noah GregorL · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24 | 0.05 | age 25 NHL 0.19 → age 26 NHL 0.15 → age 27 NHL 0.24 |
Reading it
If most comparables became NHL regulars and their later peak sits well above this player's current line, the numbers say there is room to grow. If most did not, the numbers say the odds are against it. Either way it is what the data shows, not a name chosen to flatter.
Goal archive ·
Every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Roster moves · as of 2026-09-28
Latest club announcements
Waivers, claims, injured reserve, the minors and signings as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). No cause is read into an injured-reserve placement.
2026-09-28 · sent to the minors · The Dallas Stars assigned F Arttu Hyry to the minors.
NHL EDGE tracking · 2025-26
Speed, shot and ice
From the NHL's own player-tracking data. Percentiles are the NHL's: the share of the league below this player.