Armchair Scout
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Calum Ritchie

New York Islanders Center

Thirteen goals at twenty, and nine points in his last ten.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2665131730-14225047916.513:28
Career72141731-21225049015.613:24

Last Season

Thirteen goals and 17 assists in 65 games — 30 points, minus-14, at 13:28 a night with five power-play goals. His first real NHL season, at 20.

The Finesse Game

The shot selection is good for his age: 115 unblocked attempts with 49 per cent from inside twenty feet, median 22, and thirteen goals.

That is a young centre who already understands where to shoot from, and thirteen goals in thirteen minutes a night is a real rate.

Seventeen assists says the playmaking that made him a first-round pick is arriving too.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 200, and he competes without being heavy. Twenty-two penalty minutes.

He is not yet strong enough to hold the ice his shot chart wants, which is the ordinary condition at twenty.

The Intangibles

Forty-five per cent of the expected goals, 14th percentile, and 45.4 per cent of the shot attempts, also 14th, across 706 minutes.

Those are poor and they are a twenty-year-old playing third-line minutes on a club that finished 28th in expected goals against. The scoring is the signal; the on-ice rate is mostly the roster.

Nine points in his last ten, four of them goals — the best run of form on the club. He is 21, a twenty-seventh overall pick acquired from Colorado, and the most promising forward here.