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Darren Raddysh

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Darren Raddysh

Toronto Maple Leafs Defense #43

Undrafted, 22 goals from the point, and the 96th percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22TBL4000+1000020.010:40
2022-23TBL17123-44000254.016:29
2023-24TBL8262733-3211021015.919:06
2024-25TBL7363137+9142001085.617:18
2025-26TBL73224870+2172100621210.422:42
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—24935108143+2411113084487.819:19

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

22 goals and 48 assists in 73 games — 70 points, plus-21, at 22:42 a night with 10 power-play goals and 72 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Tampa.

143 points in 249 career games.

The Finesse Game

22 goals from a blue line, and the shot chart says how. 315 unblocked attempts from a median of 51 feet, 74 per cent of them from beyond 40 and only 5 per cent from inside 20 — and 22 went in.

That is a 7 per cent conversion on point shots, which is an extraordinary figure and the reason 10 of them came on a power play he quarterbacked.

48 assists is a top-5 figure among defencemen.

The Physical Game

6-1, 202, and average. 72 penalty minutes is a moderately high rate.

He is not a punishing defender and does not clear a crease. The skating is good and the whole game is built on having the puck rather than taking it back.

The Intangibles

56.7 per cent of the expected goals, 95th percentile, and 57.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 95th, across 1,259 minutes in Tampa — with the chances 63.9 to 48.8 in his favour and the goals 71-49.

Those are among the very best defensive figures in this book, and every one of them was produced inside the structure of the third-best possession club in the league.

He is 30, undrafted, and moves to a team where no skater cleared 50 per cent in chance share. This is the single most important transfer of the season to watch: if 70 points and a 96th percentile travel to Toronto, they were his. If they do not, they were Tampa’s.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

  • measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

  • hard-shot· beats a goaltender from range

    14 of 233 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 6.0%, 98th percentile among defencemen

    Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it

  • drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there

    56.7% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 52.3% for his club in the minutes he sat: +4.4, 91st percentile among defencemen

    Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,259 minutes

Expected goals
56.7%
95th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
57.3%
95th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 71 for, 49 against. Expected: 63.9 and 48.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
86th
Numbers
95th

The two rank him within 9 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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, 2025-26 · 73 games

Top speed
21.2 mph
30th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6

Bursts over 20 mph
0.63 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
3.05 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
100.1 mph
96th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 88.9

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

6

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 4 assists, 32 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with TBL · 1259 minutes at five-on-five

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, 2025-26

The club
TBL took 53.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.7% — 2.8 above the club he did it on.
The role
First pair, 1,259 minutes at five-on-five — 86th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
J.J. Moser58.1%53.5%51.3%
Nikita Kucherov62.2%52.4%54.3%
Brandon Hagel61.5%54.1%57.9%

58.1% together, 53.5% for him apart and 51.3% for Moser 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

315 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 42 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 74% from beyond forty.