Jim Kyte played 13 seasons (1983–1996) for Winnipeg Jets (1979), Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 17 goals and 49 assists (66 points) in 598 games. Shooting Star career, peaking in 1987.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within NHL
Cross-sport prominence: 37.1th percentile among NHL careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NHL Age Milestones — Youngest to 100 Goals, 500 Points, 50 Goals and 100 PointsNHL Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNHL Career Arc TypesNHL Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNHL Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Stanley Cup PlayoffsNHL Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNHL Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNHL Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNHL Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNHL Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNHL Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Skaters and Goalies)NHL Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNHL JourneymenNHL League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNHL LoyaltyNHL Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Rosters, bio, draft details, and season/career totals come directly from the NHL's own official public API.
Fan Rating
Rate Jim Kyte — All-Time
11 seasons · peak 0.7 in 1987
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NHL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
0.4 career wins over 11 seasons · 1 win = 3.52 VAL
Best season · 1987 · +0.2 wins
Latest season · 1996 · −0.1 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NHL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Jim Kyte led or placed top-ten on a NHL season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Shooting Star
One or two seasons that define the entire career — brief but incandescent. Peak 1987, 11 rated seasons.
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Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 7 seasons (1990–1996) — a true nomad. The crest trail: