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Ridly Greig
Ottawa Senators Center
Sixty-six penalty minutes at 22, and the best finishing surplus on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | OTT | 20 | 2 | 7 | 9 | +1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 6.7 | 12:54 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 72 | 13 | 13 | 26 | +10 | 66 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 97 | 13.4 | 14:45 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 92 | 15 | 20 | 35 | +11 | 78 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 127 | 11.8 | 14:21 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
72 games, 13 goals and 13 assists for 26 points, 2 on the power play, 1 shorthanded, 66 penalty minutes, 14:45 a night and plus-10 — the best plus-minus on the club. He took 50.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 908 minutes, the 53rd percentile, and his ice went 43-35 against an expectation of 36.49-36.48.
Seven goals of finishing above what the chances were worth, the largest surplus on the club, and one fewer conceded than they called for. An exactly even chance share that came out plus-8 in goals.
The Finesse Game
139 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 46 per cent of them from inside twenty and 14 per cent from beyond forty, 97 of those on goal, converted at 13.4 per cent against a career 11.81 across 127 shots.
A 21-foot median is among the closest on this roster. He does not shoot from distance and does not try to; the attempts come from the slot and the goal line, and 13 goals in a fourth-line role at 22 is a real return on 14:45 a night.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 184 and took 66 penalty minutes.
78 career penalty minutes in 92 games. He is a small man who forechecks like a large one, finishes every check he can reach and spends most of a shift making the other club’s defencemen unhappy. The penalties are the cost of the way he plays and at his size they will not go away.
The Intangibles
Twenty-eighth overall in 2020, two seasons, 35 points in 92 games and a career plus-11.
One career shorthanded goal, and a plus-11 across two seasons on a club that has been outscored in both. He is 22, he is the most irritating player on the roster to play against, and his ice was plus-8 on an exactly even share of the chances.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
“He is a small man who forechecks like a large one, finishes every check he can reach and spends most of a shift making the other club's defencemen unhappy.”
“He does not shoot from distance and does not try to; the attempts come from the slot and the goal line, and 13 goals in a fourth-line role at 22 is a real return on 14:45 a night.”
“The penalties are the cost of the way he plays and at his size they will not go away.”
“One career shorthanded goal, and a plus-11 across two seasons on a club that has been outscored in both.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 908 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50%
- 53rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.8%
- 54th 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: 43 for, 35 against. Expected: 36.5 and 36.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 4 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 652 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 72 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 33rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.14 a game
- Distance
- 2.29 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.8 mph
- 38th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 908 minutes at five-on-five
- Dominik Kubalikoff the roster30%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- OTT took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.0% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 908 minutes at five-on-five — 48th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jakob Chychrun | 47.7% | 51.4% | 47.6% |
| Artem Zub | 56.0% | 47.2% | 50.9% |
| Erik Brannstrom | 43.5% | 53.0% | 54.6% |
47.7% together, 51.4% for him apart and 47.6% for Chychrun apart. He was better away from Chychrun, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Chychrun.
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
139 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.