Ryan Hartman

A genuinely useful top-6 winger and one of the more disliked opponents in the league, which is roughly how he wants it.

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

2014-15	CHI	5	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	8	0.0	8:17
2015-16	CHI	3	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	9:14
2016-17	CHI	76	19	12	31	+13	70	1	0	4	170	11.2	12:46
2017-18	CHI/NSH	78	11	20	31	+1	72	1	0	2	129	8.5	13:04
2018-19	NSH/PHI	83	12	14	26	+1	74	0	0	2	145	8.3	13:07
2019-20	MIN	69	9	11	20	+4	69	1	0	1	114	7.9	12:15
2020-21	MIN	51	7	15	22	0	33	0	1	2	74	9.5	15:04
2021-22	MIN	82	34	31	65	+31	95	1	0	7	239	14.2	18:11
2022-23	MIN	59	15	22	37	+7	90	1	2	6	149	10.1	16:18
2023-24	MIN	74	21	24	45	+4	72	5	0	3	173	12.1	16:31
2024-25	MIN	69	11	15	26	-7	75	3	0	1	158	7.0	14:58
2025-26	MIN	76	23	20	43	-1	48	6	0	4	167	13.8	16:45
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	725	162	185	347	+51	700	19	3	32	1529	10.6	14:49

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

23 goals and 43 points in 76 games, 6 on the power play, on 16 and a half minutes a night. He played 40 percent of his 5-on-5 time with Kaprizov, which is the job: get him the puck and make life unpleasant for whoever is trying to take it back.

The Finesse Game

More skill than the reputation suggests. He finishes around the net, he has a quick shot from the slot, and he has scored at a 20-goal rate for several seasons now — playing beside a star helps, and it does not do the finishing for him.

He is not a creator. The passing is functional, he does not carry the puck through traffic, and if the line’s offence has to start with him it usually does not start.

The skating is ordinary. He gets to the right places by anticipating rather than by beating anyone there.

The Physical Game

Constant, and occasionally over the line. He finishes every check, agitates after whistles, and has a long history of supplementary discipline to go with it. 48 penalty minutes understates how much of his game happens in the scrums.

The value is real: opponents lose composure around him. The cost is real too, and has occasionally been games.

The Intangibles

He is 31, on his fourth organisation, and has found a role that fits him better than any of the others did. Coaches like him more than opposing fans do, which is the usual arrangement for this type.

The read is that he is a good complementary winger whose production is tied to the man he plays with, and whose edge is worth keeping as long as it stays on the right side of costing games.

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.

workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:44 a game at five-on-five, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,120 minutes

Expected goals: 53.2%; 78th pct
Shot attempts: 50.3%; 61st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 44 against. Expected: 53.6 and 47.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

89th

Numbers

78th

Blind

61st

The two rank him within 11 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.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 17 points from the numbers; this one lands 11. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.

All three 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 — 80 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 · 76 games

Top speed: 22.3 mph; 56th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.58 a game
Distance: 2.52 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.4 mph; 66th 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 — 7 goals, 5 assists, 27 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1120 minutes at five-on-five

Kirill Kaprizov47%
Mats Zuccarellonow LAK46%
Vladimir Tarasenkooff the roster22%

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: MIN took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.2% — 2.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,120 minutes at five-on-five — 73rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Kirill Kaprizov	56.4%	50.0%	51.3%
Mats Zuccarello	56.0%	50.8%	51.5%
Brock Faber	54.3%	52.4%	51.3%

56.4% together, 50.0% for him apart and 51.3% for Kaprizov apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

269 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 41% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.