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Ryan Graves
New Jersey Devils Defense
Six-foot-five with a career plus-50, the 92nd-percentile penalty ledger, and no power-play points at all.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | COL | 26 | 3 | 2 | 5 | +4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 11.5 | 11:06 |
| 2019-20 | COL | 69 | 9 | 17 | 26 | +40 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 134 | 6.7 | 18:57 |
| 2020-21 | COL | 54 | 2 | 13 | 15 | +15 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 2.0 | 19:03 |
| 2021-22 | NJD | 75 | 6 | 22 | 28 | -9 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 5.4 | 20:43 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 224 | 20 | 54 | 74 | +50 | 126 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 372 | 5.4 | 18:39 |
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
6 goals and 22 assists in seventy-five games at 20:43 a night, minus-9, twenty-four penalty minutes. One hundred and tenth overall in 2013, four seasons, 224 games, a career plus-50.
Not one of his twenty-eight points came on the power play.
The Finesse Game
1.23 even-strength points per 60 is the 81st percentile of defencemen — all of it at even strength, which makes it one of the better raw rates at the position. 4.29 shots per 60 is the 48th at 5.4 per cent from a 50-foot median.
52.1 per cent of the expected goals is the 69th percentile and 50.6 per cent of the attempts the 58th, with 45.8 per cent of his end-zone starts in the attacking end — a modestly hard assignment, and the shares held up under it.
His ice went 62-75 against an expectation of 62.45-57.42. Eighteen goals against above what the chances warranted, which is the New Jersey crease and appears on every line in this chapter.
Beside Dougie Hamilton across 981 attempts he read 52.0 per cent, and 52.2 alone. The pairing changed nothing in either direction.
The Physical Game
5.21 blocks per 60 is the 78th percentile at 6-5 and 225 pounds. 3.47 hits per 60 is the 41st — he is large and does not use it as a weapon.
0.66 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.46 taken is a 92nd-percentile net, from a defenceman starting more of his shifts in his own end than the attacking one. Twenty-four penalty minutes in seventy-five games at that size is genuinely disciplined.
The Intangibles
21.6 mph is the 34th percentile and 0.5 bursts over 20 mph per 60 is the 10th, at 8.25 miles per 60, the 29th. He is among the slower and less mobile defencemen the league measures, which at 6-5 and in hard minutes is the expected shape.
He is 27 with a career plus-50 across four seasons and two clubs. A defenceman who takes hard starts, blocks, never fouls and scores twenty-eight points without a power play is a genuine second-pair asset, and the skating is what caps him.
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.
- 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.
“5.21 blocks per 60 is the 78th percentile at 6-5 and 225 pounds.”
“0.66 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.46 taken is a 92nd-percentile net, from a defenceman starting more of his shifts in his own end than the attacking one.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,355 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.1%
- 71st pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.6%
- 61st 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: 62 for, 75 against. Expected: 62.5 and 57.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 38 points above where the report does. 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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, 2021-22 · 75 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 54th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.16 a game
- Distance
- 2.85 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.4 mph
- 73rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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
2021-22 · 1355 minutes at five-on-five
- P.K. Subbanoff the roster19%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- NJD took 51.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.1% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,355 minutes at five-on-five — 92nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dougie Hamilton | 52.0% | 52.2% | 49.9% |
| Jesper Bratt | 55.7% | 50.4% | 57.2% |
| Damon Severson | 52.3% | 52.0% | 51.7% |
52.0% together, 52.2% for him apart and 49.9% for Hamilton apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
158 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 43 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 74% from beyond forty.