Ryan Donato

565 games, and a career year that landed on the worst possible team.

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

2017-18	BOS	12	5	4	9	+2	2	2	0	0	24	20.8	14:42
2018-19	BOS/MIN	56	10	15	25	-15	6	3	0	1	139	7.2	13:42
2019-20	MIN	62	14	9	23	+5	12	0	0	1	95	14.7	10:38
2020-21	SJS	50	6	14	20	-11	10	2	0	1	104	5.8	12:36
2021-22	SEA	74	16	15	31	-13	40	1	0	2	159	10.1	13:48
2022-23	SEA	71	14	13	27	+16	46	0	0	0	122	11.5	11:15
2023-24	CHI	78	12	18	30	-14	26	1	0	0	149	8.1	14:00
2024-25	CHI	80	31	31	62	-15	41	5	0	3	182	17.0	16:19
2025-26	CHI	82	15	15	30	-16	46	1	0	2	122	12.3	14:44
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	565	123	134	257	-61	229	15	0	10	1096	11.2	13:33

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

15 goals and 15 assists in all 82 games — 30 points, minus-16, at 14:44 a night.

The Finesse Game

A decent shot used from decent ice: 211 unblocked attempts, 42 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 24, and 16 goals. That is a fair middle-6 return.

123 goals in 565 career games across 5 organisations. He is what he is, and what he is has value on a team with more around him.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 190, and willing without being heavy. 46 penalty minutes is more than his game suggests and reflects a season of frustration as much as anything.

The Intangibles

44.0 per cent of the expected goals, 11th percentile — which on this roster made him one of the 3 best forwards, because the club was 43.2 per cent.

The goals while he was on the ice went 36-48 against expected goals of 36.8 to 46.9 — within 2 of exactly what the chances predicted, which on this club counts as holding steady.

He is 30. 3 points in his last 10. On any club in the top half of this book he is a useful third-line winger; here he was a top-6 forward, which is the whole problem stated in 1 player.

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.

durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,075 minutes

Expected goals: 44%; 11th pct
Shot attempts: 47.2%; 28th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 48 against. Expected: 36.8 and 46.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

19th

Numbers

11th

The two rank him within 8 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 — 66 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.5 mph; 63rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.78 a game
Distance: 2.34 miles a game
Hardest shot: 91.3 mph; 88th 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 — 1 goals, 2 assists, 25 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1075 minutes at five-on-five

Ilya Mikheyevnow TBL43%
Jason Dickinsonnow EDM23%
Colton Dachnow EDM19%

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: CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.0% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 1,075 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ilya Mikheyev	45.6%	42.7%	38.9%
Alex Vlasic	42.8%	44.6%	40.3%
Wyatt Kaiser	48.1%	42.2%	42.7%

45.6% together, 42.7% for him apart and 38.9% for Mikheyev apart. Mikheyev was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Mikheyev than for him.

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

211 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.