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Ross Johnston
Anaheim Ducks Left Wing
6-5 and 232 pounds, 72 penalty minutes in 43 games, and 4 points.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | NYI | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 16:17 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 24 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 15.8 | 9:20 |
| 2018-19 | NYI | 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8.3 | 7:55 |
| 2019-20 | NYI | 32 | 3 | 1 | 4 | +1 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 18.8 | 7:59 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 8:44 |
| 2021-22 | NYI | 32 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 22.2 | 10:16 |
| 2022-23 | NYI | 16 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 7:48 |
| 2023-24 | ANA | 68 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -12 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 2.3 | 8:12 |
| 2024-25 | ANA | 43 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 11.1 | 8:41 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 245 | 11 | 21 | 32 | -17 | 472 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 116 | 9.5 | 8:39 |
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
1 goal and 3 assists in 43 games for 4 points, minus-2, on 8:41 a night — the smallest role on the roster.
38.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 1st percentile, over 373 minutes. 9 shots in 43 games. There is no reading of these numbers that makes them look better.
The Finesse Game
None. 9 shots in 43 games is fewer than most defencemen take in a month, and the hands do not function at NHL pace.
He is on a roster to fight and to hit, and everything else about a shift is spent trying not to be the reason a goal goes in.
The Physical Game
6-5 and 232, one of the largest forwards in the league, and this is the entire job. He fights, he hits, and the other club knows he is on the bench.
72 penalty minutes in 43 games is among the highest rates in hockey. On a club whose penalty kill finished 29th, that is not a neutral fact.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, a decade in one organisation, and a career built on being willing to do the thing nobody else wants to. Nobody has ever questioned the professionalism.
The honest projection is that the role he plays is disappearing from the league, and a rebuilding club carrying it for 43 games is spending development minutes on a man who has none left to gain.
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
- 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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
34% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 9th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“Undrafted, a decade in one organisation, and a career built on being willing to do the thing nobody else wants to.”
“He fights, he hits, and the other club knows he is on the bench.”
“He is on a roster to fight and to hit, and everything else about a shift is spent trying not to be the reason a goal goes in.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 373 minutes
- Expected goals
- 38.5%
- 1st pct
- Shot attempts
- 41.9%
- 3rd 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: 7 for, 9 against. Expected: 9.5 and 15.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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, 2024-25 · 43 games
- Top speed
- 21.3 mph
- 15th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.35 a game
- Distance
- 1.38 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 77.8 mph
- 15th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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
2024-25 · 373 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
- ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 38.5% — 6.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 373 minutes at five-on-five — 10th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jansen Harkins | 35.5% | 43.3% | 43.2% |
| Isac Lundestrom | 39.4% | 37.9% | 40.8% |
| Brian Dumoulin | 40.8% | 37.3% | 43.4% |
35.5% together, 43.3% for him apart and 43.2% for Harkins apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
21 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 52% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.