Rickard Rakell

58 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and 9 goals in his last 10.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2012-13	ANA	4	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	8:57
2013-14	ANA	18	0	4	4	-3	2	0	0	0	22	0.0	11:43
2014-15	ANA	71	9	22	31	+6	10	2	0	1	105	8.6	12:34
2015-16	ANA	72	20	23	43	-1	19	4	0	7	169	11.8	16:04
2016-17	ANA	71	33	18	51	+10	12	5	0	10	177	18.6	17:23
2017-18	ANA	77	34	35	69	+6	14	8	0	3	230	14.8	19:25
2018-19	ANA	69	18	25	43	-13	27	6	0	2	194	9.3	18:28
2019-20	ANA	65	15	27	42	-5	12	3	0	2	186	8.1	18:10
2020-21	ANA	52	9	19	28	-14	12	0	0	1	144	6.3	17:50
2021-22	ANA/PIT	70	20	21	41	0	12	5	0	2	184	10.9	17:59
2022-23	PIT	82	28	32	60	-5	16	11	0	2	243	11.5	18:26
2023-24	PIT	70	15	22	37	+4	22	4	0	2	165	9.1	16:31
2024-25	PIT	81	35	35	70	-22	14	9	0	1	203	17.2	19:18
2025-26	PIT	60	24	24	48	-2	8	7	1	1	166	14.5	18:57
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	862	260	307	567	-41	180	64	1	34	2191	11.9	17:26

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

24 goals and 24 assists in 60 games — 48 points, minus-2, at 18:57 a night with 7 power-play goals. 22 games missed.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is excellent. 58 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 17, with only 8 per cent from beyond 40 — and 26 goals came out of 244 tries.

That is a finisher who has worked out that the outside is a waste of his time. 260 goals in 862 career games.

24 assists is honest second-line work.

The Physical Game

6-1, 194, and he is not physical — 8 penalty minutes in 60 games is one of the lowest rates in this edition.

He gets to the paint by timing rather than force, which works and is also why he takes a beating and misses games.

The Intangibles

51.1 per cent of the expected goals, 64th percentile, with the goals 44-36 in his favour across 847 minutes.

12 points in his last 10, 9 of them goals — the hottest finish of anyone in this book.

He is 33 and Pittsburgh finished 35 goals above its expected total, second-best in the league. A good share of that is this shot chart and Crosby’s and Brazeau’s, which is the honest version: this club shoots from the right places.

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

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
66.8% of his attempts in the slot, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
disciplined· stays out of the box
0.13 penalty minutes a game over 60, 4th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 847 minutes

Expected goals: 51.1%; 64th pct
Shot attempts: 49.8%; 55th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 36 against. Expected: 38.1 and 36.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

61st

Numbers

64th

The two rank him within 3 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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, 2025-26 · 60 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 80th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.65 a game
Distance: 3.10 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.0 mph; 69th pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 9 goals, 3 assists, 36 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 847 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, 2025-26

The club: PIT took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 0.7 below the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 847 minutes at five-on-five — 42nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Bryan Rust	49.4%	54.6%	46.4%
Sidney Crosby	50.1%	53.0%	50.4%
Parker Wotherspoon	50.7%	51.4%	51.3%

49.4% together, 54.6% for him apart and 46.4% for Rust apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Rust behind.

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

244 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 26 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 59% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.