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Ethen Frank
Washington Capitals Right Wing
Undrafted, 27 years old, four goals in his first 24 NHL games, and the 87th percentile of chances.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | WSH | 24 | 4 | 3 | 7 | +3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 17.4 | 10:49 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 24 | 4 | 3 | 7 | +3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 17.4 | 10:49 |
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
4 goals and 3 assists in 24 games — 7 points at 10:49 a night, plus-3, with a game-winner on 23 shots, converting at 17.4 per cent, and 6 penalty minutes.
54.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 87th percentile, across 235 minutes. His ice went 5-4 against an expectation of 9.10-7.68 on a sample far too small to argue from.
The Finesse Game
23 attempts in 24 games at a median of 23 feet with 42 per cent from inside 20, and 4 goals.
3 assists. The skating is the reason he is here at all — he is genuinely among the fastest players in the organisation and he beats defencemen wide from a standing start. There is very little else developed around it.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 188 and he does not play a physical game. He forechecks with speed rather than with force and he does not win pucks against defencemen.
6 penalty minutes in 24 games. He is uninvolved in that half of the game.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of Western Michigan and 24 NHL games, having scored at a high rate in the American League for four seasons before anybody gave him a look.
He is 27. An undrafted 27-year-old who scores four goals in his first 24 games has almost no margin, and the whole file is whether the speed survives contact with a full season.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 235 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.2%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.2%
- 56th 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: 5 for, 4 against. Expected: 9.1 and 7.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 45 points above where the report does. 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 — 71 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 · 235 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
- WSH took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.2% — 3.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 235 minutes at five-on-five — 3rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Raddysh | 51.6% | 57.3% | 53.1% |
| Jakob Chychrun | 48.4% | 57.5% | 48.9% |
| Trevor van Riemsdyk | 58.1% | 52.4% | 49.4% |
51.6% together, 57.3% for him apart and 53.1% for Raddysh apart. He was better away from Raddysh, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Raddysh.
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
31 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.