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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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20

Ryan Greene

Chicago Blackhawks Center

29 points as a rookie, and 49 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2024-25CHI20000000010.013:12
2025-26CHI81121729-141411110911.016:45
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—83121729-141411111010.916:40

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

12 goals and 17 assists in 81 games — 29 points, minus-14, at 16:45 a night. His first NHL season, at 22.

The Finesse Game

The shot selection is better than most of this roster manages. 49 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 21, and 12 went in on 156 tries.

That is a rookie who has already worked out where goals come from, which on a club that finished last in expected goals is not a small thing.

17 assists is ordinary. He is a shooter who passes rather than the reverse.

The Physical Game

6-1, 195, and he competes without imposing. 14 penalty minutes in 81 games. He goes to the net and takes the punishment, which is presumably how so many of those shots came from close in.

The Intangibles

42.8 per cent of the expected goals, 8th percentile, and 43.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 5th — numbers that would be alarming anywhere except here, where the club itself was 45.6 per cent.

He played 81 games at 22 on the league’s worst team, spent much of it on Bedard’s line, and came out with 29 points and a shot chart pointing the right way.

5 points in his last 10, 3 of them goals. A second-round pick doing more than a second-round pick has to.

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.

  • disciplined· stays out of the box

    0.17 penalty minutes a game over 81, 10th percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it

  • durable· was available

    81 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 · 1,104 minutes

Expected goals
42.8%
7th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
43.5%
6th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 43 for, 57 against. Expected: 43.5 and 58.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
27th
Numbers
7th

The report ranks him 20 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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 · 81 games

Top speed
22.3 mph
54th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.00 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.68 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
83.3 mph
40th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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

5

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 2 assists, 16 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1104 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, 2025-26

The club
CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.8% — 0.4 below the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 1,104 minutes at five-on-five — 71st percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Connor Bedard43.9%41.5%43.1%
Andre Burakovsky47.1%38.4%43.8%
Alex Vlasic35.0%46.7%43.3%

43.9% together, 41.5% for him apart and 43.1% for Bedard 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

156 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.