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Rasmus Ristolainen

Photo by Lisa Gansky from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0

Rasmus Ristolainen

Philadelphia Flyers Defense #55

Eight hundred and twenty games, and one goal.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-264411314+1016000581.721:23
Career82057261318-169399151815133.822:35

Last Season

One goal and 13 assists in 44 games — 14 points, plus-10, at 21:23 a night with 16 penalty minutes. Thirty-eight games missed.

The Finesse Game

Ninety-one unblocked attempts from a median of 47 feet, thirteen per cent from inside twenty, one goal. Fifty-seven goals in 820 career games.

Thirteen assists in 44 games is a fair rate for a defenceman whose job is the retrieval and the first pass.

The Physical Game

Six foot four, 208, and genuinely heavy. He hits, he blocks shots, and he owns his own net front.

Sixteen penalty minutes in 44 games of twenty-one-minute nights is unusually disciplined for a player with his reputation.

The Intangibles

Fifty point five per cent of the expected goals, 58th percentile, and 47.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 30th, across 786 minutes, with the goals 27-29.

He spent nine years in Buffalo being one of the most criticised defencemen in the league, most of it deserved, and the numbers in Philadelphia have been steadily respectable for four seasons.

Eight points in his last ten, none of them goals. He is 32 and has missed thirty-eight games; the durability is now the question rather than the play.