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Darren Raddysh
Tampa Bay Lightning Defense
Undrafted, 31 assists from a second pairing, and 82 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | TBL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 10:40 |
| 2022-23 | TBL | 17 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 4.0 | 16:29 |
| 2023-24 | TBL | 82 | 6 | 27 | 33 | -3 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 101 | 5.9 | 19:06 |
| 2024-25 | TBL | 73 | 6 | 31 | 37 | +9 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 5.6 | 17:18 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 176 | 13 | 60 | 73 | +3 | 39 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 236 | 5.5 | 17:55 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
6 goals and 31 assists in 73 games — 37 points at 17:18 a night, plus-9, with only 14 penalty minutes on 108 shots.
51.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 58th percentile. His ice went 54-37 against an expectation of 44.95-43.09, which is a defenceman whose results matched his chances almost exactly.
The Finesse Game
108 attempts at a median of 55 feet with 82 per cent from beyond 40 and 4 per cent from inside 20 — a pure point shot, converting at 5.6 per cent.
31 assists in 73 games is the third-best rate of any defenceman in this chapter. He moves the puck quickly and accurately, he runs a power-play unit, and the offensive instincts are the reason a club found him at all.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 202 and he does not play a physical game. He does not clear the front of his own net and he does not finish checks.
14 penalty minutes in 73 games is a very low rate. He defends with his stick and his positioning, and he is paired with size for exactly that reason.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, and he played four seasons in the American League after college before an NHL game at 26 — his brother has played more than 200 games in the league.
176 games and 73 points. He is 29 and he has been a genuinely useful top-four defenceman on a contender for three seasons, which for an undrafted player is a career.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
83.0% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 91st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.19 penalty minutes a game over 73, 8th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
62% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“**Undrafted**, and he played four seasons in the American League after college before an NHL game at 26 — his brother has played more than 200 games in the league.”
“**31 assists in 73 games is the third-best rate of any defenceman in this chapter.** He moves the puck quickly and accurately, he runs a power-play unit, and the offensive instincts are the reason a club found him at all.”
“He does not clear the front of his own net and he does not finish checks.”
“He does not clear the front of his own net and he does not finish checks.”
“He defends with his stick and his positioning, and he is paired with size for exactly that reason.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,070 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.1%
- 64th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.7%
- 61st 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: 54 for, 37 against. Expected: 45.0 and 43.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 15 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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, 2024-25 · 73 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 51st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.55 a game
- Distance
- 2.34 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 100.3 mph
- 97th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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
2024-25 · 1070 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, 2024-25
- The club
- TBL took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 0.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,070 minutes at five-on-five — 71st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Hedman | 53.4% | 47.9% | 52.5% |
| Nikita Kucherov | 59.4% | 45.3% | 52.5% |
| Brayden Point | 55.5% | 47.9% | 48.8% |
53.4% together, 47.9% for him apart and 52.5% for Hedman apart. He was worse away from Hedman, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Hedman did.
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
182 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 49 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 82% from beyond forty.