Ryan Donato

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

74 games, 16 goals and 15 assists at 13:48 a night, minus-13, forty penalty minutes, 159 shots. Fifty-sixth overall in 2014 by Boston, five seasons, 254 games, 108 points. Thirty-one points is a career high by six and sixteen goals is a career high by two.

The Finesse Game

Fifty-seven per cent of his attempts came from the slot at a 21-foot median, and sixteen of his thirty-one points were goals.

9.35 shots per 60 is the 82nd percentile at 10.1 per cent — a real volume rate from close range on one of the smallest forward shifts on the roster.

2.03 even-strength points per 60 is the 65th percentile and only three per cent of his points came on the power play, off 1:48 a night. Almost everything he produced came at five-on-five.

2.29 takeaways per 60 is the 88th percentile among forwards, at 13:48 a night, the fifth-smallest workload of any Seattle forward who played forty games.

48.7 per cent of the expected goals and 48.8 per cent of the attempts, out of 55.5 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 169th-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts.

His ice went 40-43 against an expectation of 30.79-32.48 — nine goals of surplus in front and ten and a half more against than the model asked. Both halves are large and they nearly cancel, and on a club whose crease rated 31st the second of them needs no other explanation.

The Physical Game

4.11 hits per 60 is the 54th percentile and 1.00 blocks the 16th at 6-0 and 190 pounds. 1.00 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.76 taken, and forty penalty minutes came out of seventy-four games.

The Intangibles

22.5 mph is the 53rd percentile, 4.4 bursts per 60 the 42nd, 9.54 miles per 60 the 40th. Three skating measurements within a whisker of the middle — there is nothing in the tracking that says anything either way.

His shot is 88.1 mph, the 34th percentile. The goals come from twenty-one feet, not from velocity.

He is 26 with 254 games across five seasons and four organisations. The shot volume, the geography and the takeaways are three real things on a small shift. The absence of any power-play role, an ordinary skating file and a career that has never been given more than fourteen minutes a night are the rest of it.