Brett Ritchie
Calgary Flames Right Wing
Forty-one games, 9:43 a night, and four points from a 6-4 winger in his eighth season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | DAL | 31 | 6 | 3 | 9 | -1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 78 | 7.7 | 13:59 |
| 2015-16 | DAL | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0.0 | 11:36 |
| 2016-17 | DAL | 78 | 16 | 8 | 24 | +11 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 167 | 9.6 | 12:54 |
| 2017-18 | DAL | 71 | 7 | 7 | 14 | +1 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 6.0 | 10:50 |
| 2018-19 | DAL | 53 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 57 | 7.0 | 9:36 |
| 2019-20 | BOS | 27 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 5.9 | 10:24 |
| 2020-21 | CGY | 32 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 11.1 | 11:22 |
| 2021-22 | CGY | 41 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -6 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 5.5 | 9:43 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 341 | 42 | 30 | 72 | -13 | 230 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 559 | 7.5 | 11:18 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
3 goals and 1 assist in 41 games — 4 points at 9:43 a night, minus-6, with 29 penalty minutes.
57.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 405 minutes. His ice went 13-19 against an expectation of 18.89-14.15 — six fewer goals for than the chances promised and five more against, in a sample small enough that both are noise.
Four hundred and five minutes is below the 500 this book requires before it will rank a player against the league, so no percentiles are quoted here.
The Finesse Game
Fifty-five shots and three goals, from a median of 28 feet with 26 per cent from the slot. Four points in 41 games is the least productive season of an eight-year career.
His best year was 24 points in 78 games for Dallas at 23, and nothing since has come close.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 215, with 29 penalty minutes in 41 games and 230 in 341 career games. He is a heavy fourth-line winger and that is the entire job description.
1.60 miles a game is the lowest figure on this roster. Nine minutes a night on a fourth line does not cover ground, and the number is a shift-count artefact as much as a description of how he skates.
The Intangibles
Forty-fourth overall in 2011 by Dallas, and 341 NHL games at 29 with 72 points.
He is on his third club and his third one-year arrangement in three years. On a roster that has lost 230 points of forward and replaced them with two men, the thirteenth forward’s job is to be available and not cost anything.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 405 minutes
- Expected goals
- 57.2%
- 95th pct
- Shot attempts
- 56.8%
- 95th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 13 for, 19 against. Expected: 18.9 and 14.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 82 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 52 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2021-22 · 41 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 37th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.73 a game
- Distance
- 1.60 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.8 mph
- 54th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2021-22 · 405 minutes at five-on-five
- Milan Lucic40%
- Dillon Dube35%
- Trevor Lewis34%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2021-22
- The club
- CGY took 55.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 57.2% — 2.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 405 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milan Lucic | 60.6% | 55.2% | 48.2% |
| Dillon Dube | 57.2% | 57.2% | 52.5% |
| Erik Gudbranson | 56.3% | 57.6% | 53.5% |
60.6% together, 55.2% for him apart and 48.2% for Lucic apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
74 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 26% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.