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Ross Colton
Nashville Predators Center #20
Sixty-four goals for and thirty against while he was on the ice, in Colorado.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 73 | 9 | 15 | 24 | +9 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 153 | 5.9 | 12:31 |
| Career | 404 | 89 | 87 | 176 | -1 | 182 | 13 | 0 | 18 | 782 | 11.4 | 12:55 |
Last Season
Nine goals and 15 assists in 73 games — 24 points, plus-nine, at 12:31 a night. His five-on-five work was done in Colorado.
The Finesse Game
A hundred and fifty-three shots on goal in twelve and a half minutes a night is a high rate and only nine went in. Two hundred and thirty-three unblocked attempts, seven goals at five-on-five, median 28 feet with 30 per cent from inside twenty.
Eighty-nine goals in 404 career games. He has scored twenty in a season before and this was not close to it.
The Physical Game
Six foot even, 194, and he plays a hard, honest checking game. Thirteen penalty minutes.
He forechecks properly, kills penalties and takes defensive-zone draws, which is the whole of why he dresses.
The Intangibles
Fifty-eight point eight per cent of the expected goals — 98th percentile — with the goals 64 for and 30 against across 858 minutes.
Read that with the Colorado caveat at full volume: this was the second-best possession team in the league and a sheltered role inside it. Drury’s page carries an almost identical number from the same club.
The chances did run 45.7 to 32.0 in his favour, which is more than system alone.
He is 29, a fourth-round pick with a Stanley Cup, and joins a Nashville bottom six that was outchanced all season. He is a genuine upgrade on what was there and the ninety-eighth percentile is not coming with him.