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Dylan Strome
Washington Capitals Center
Eighty-two points and 53 assists, and the 25th percentile of chances.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | ARI | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 13:41 |
| 2017-18 | ARI | 21 | 4 | 5 | 9 | +4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 13.3 | 12:57 |
| 2018-19 | ARI/CHI | 78 | 20 | 37 | 57 | -8 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 145 | 13.8 | 16:10 |
| 2019-20 | CHI | 58 | 12 | 26 | 38 | +1 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 97 | 12.4 | 15:56 |
| 2020-21 | CHI | 40 | 9 | 8 | 17 | -16 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 71 | 12.7 | 15:31 |
| 2021-22 | CHI | 69 | 22 | 26 | 48 | -6 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 126 | 17.5 | 17:26 |
| 2022-23 | WSH | 81 | 23 | 42 | 65 | -4 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 154 | 14.9 | 16:41 |
| 2023-24 | WSH | 82 | 27 | 40 | 67 | -13 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 169 | 16.0 | 17:57 |
| 2024-25 | WSH | 82 | 29 | 53 | 82 | +2 | 34 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 149 | 19.5 | 17:23 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 518 | 146 | 238 | 384 | -45 | 166 | 36 | 0 | 18 | 947 | 15.4 | 16:39 |
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
29 goals and 53 assists in 82 games — 82 points at 17:23 a night, plus-2, with 9 power-play goals and 3 game-winners on 149 shots, converting at 19.5 per cent, and 34 penalty minutes.
It is a career high by fifteen points. 47.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 25th percentile. His ice went 39-38 against an expectation of 44.32-49.59 — five goals of scoring missing and twelve fewer conceded than the chances predicted.
The Finesse Game
149 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 48 per cent from inside 20 and 13 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 19.5 per cent.
53 assists is the job and he is very good at it. He holds the puck below the goal line, he waits for the seam rather than forcing it, and his entire value on this club is putting the puck where Alex Ovechkin’s stick is going to be. 384 points in 518 games.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 200 and light for the height. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win many pucks against a heavy defenceman.
34 penalty minutes in 82 games is a low rate. He is not an agitator and he does not retaliate, and the physical half of the game is simply not part of what he offers.
The Intangibles
Third overall in 2015 — taken between Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel’s draft class in a year of famous names — and traded twice before he was 22.
He is 28 and had 82 points. A third-overall pick who was written off in Arizona and Chicago and became a point-a-game centre at 28 is a rarer story than it sounds, and it happened because somebody put him beside the right winger.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,065 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.2%
- 25th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.8%
- 40th 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: 39 for, 38 against. Expected: 44.3 and 49.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 41 points above where the numbers do. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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 · 1065 minutes at five-on-five
- Tom Wilson32%
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
- WSH took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.2% — 3.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,065 minutes at five-on-five — 70th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Ovechkin | 45.3% | 50.1% | 45.3% |
| Aliaksei Protas | 48.7% | 46.3% | 55.1% |
| Jakob Chychrun | 44.3% | 48.9% | 51.2% |
45.3% together, 50.1% for him apart and 45.3% for Ovechkin apart. He was better away from Ovechkin, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Ovechkin.
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
208 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 29 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.