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Ryan Donato
Chicago Blackhawks Center
31 goals on a 17 per cent rate at 28, after never scoring more than 20.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 483 | 108 | 119 | 227 | -45 | 183 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 974 | 11.1 | 13:21 |
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
31 goals and 31 assists in 80 games for 62 points, minus-15, on 16:19 a night and 182 shots.
17 per cent shooting, against a career rate under 12, in his eighth NHL season. 46.0 per cent chance share, the 9th percentile, with on-ice goals of 46-52 against an expected 39-46 — outscored by 27 on a line that created less than it allowed.
The Finesse Game
A genuinely quick release and better hands than a journeyman’s reputation suggests. 37 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet, which supports a rate above his career mark; it does not support 17 per cent.
31 assists is also a career high and it came largely from playing beside Connor Bedard. The distinction that matters is between a player who found a role and a player who found a linemate, and the evidence leans toward the second.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 190, and he is honest without being heavy. He goes to the net, takes some punishment, and does not win pucks on the wall.
41 penalty minutes over 80 games is a moderate rate. The durability has been fine.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, six organisations, a father who played, and a career of being a useful thirteenth forward until a contract year on the first line of a last-place club.
The club has paid him as a scorer. The honest projection is 18 goals, and the gap between that and 31 is the largest single bet in this chapter.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He goes to the net, takes some punishment, and does not win pucks on the wall.”
“does not win pucks on the wall”
“6 feet and 190, and he is honest without being heavy.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,035 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.3%
- 13th 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: 46 for, 52 against. Expected: 39.1 and 45.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 40 points above where the numbers do. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 74 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 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 37th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.96 a game
- Distance
- 2.60 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.7 mph
- 70th 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 · 1035 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
- CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.0% — 2.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,035 minutes at five-on-five — 66th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connor Bedard | 43.7% | 47.6% | 40.9% |
| Alex Vlasic | 44.6% | 47.0% | 41.8% |
| Connor Murphy | 51.8% | 43.7% | 43.9% |
43.7% together, 47.6% for him apart and 40.9% for Bedard apart. He was better away from Bedard, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Bedard.
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
260 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 32 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.