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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.
50.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 58th percentile. His ice went 42-40 against an expectation of 44.43-43.61, 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,070 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.5%
- 59th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.4%
- 58th 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: 42 for, 40 against. Expected: 44.4 and 43.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 10 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.
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 50.5% — 0.3 below 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 | 51.7% | 48.7% | 51.2% |
| Nikita Kucherov | 57.6% | 46.1% | 51.0% |
| Brayden Point | 54.2% | 48.1% | 47.5% |
51.7% together, 48.7% for him apart and 51.2% 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.