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Ryan Hartman

Minnesota Wild Right Wing

26 points, 75 penalty minutes, and a suspension that cost the club ten games.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2014-15CHI5000-1200080.08:17
2015-16CHI3011-1000030.09:14
2016-17CHI76191231+137010417011.212:46
2017-18CHI/NSH78112031+1721021298.513:04
2018-19NSH/PHI83121426+1740021458.313:07
2019-20MIN6991120+4691011147.912:15
2020-21MIN5171522033012749.515:04
2021-22MIN82343165+319510723914.218:11
2022-23MIN59152237+79012614910.116:18
2023-24MIN74212445+47250317312.116:31
2024-25MIN69111526-7753011587.014:58
2025-26 so far
Career649139165304+5265213328136210.214:35

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

11 goals and 15 assists in 69 games for 26 points, minus-7, on 14:58 a night with 75 penalty minutes and 158 shots.

49.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 53rd percentile. 7 per cent conversion on 158 attempts is well below his career rate and part of the club’s wider finishing problem.

The Finesse Game

Better hands than the reputation allows — he had a 34-goal season three years ago and the release is genuine. 158 shots in 69 games is a good volume for a third-line role.

15 assists is thin. He is a shooter who needs a centre, and the club’s two best ones played 41 and 46 games.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 197, and he plays right at the edge of what the league allows. He hits, he agitates, and he is among the more genuinely disliked opponents in hockey.

75 penalty minutes over 69 games, and a ten-game suspension for slamming an opponent’s head into the ice. That is not a rate problem; it is a judgment problem, and it cost a club fighting for a playoff place a tenth of its season.

The Intangibles

A first-round pick, six organisations, and a career that has alternated between genuinely useful and genuinely costly.

At 31 the projection is 30 points and 80 penalty minutes. The club has decided that the first is worth the second, and last season it was not.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 893 minutes

Expected goals
49.9%
53rd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48.6%
39th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 35 for, 32 against. Expected: 32.9 and 33.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
71st
Numbers
53rd

The two rank him within 18 points of one another. 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.

Both bars are percentiles among the 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 893 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
MIN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.9% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 893 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Marcus Johansson49.9%50.0%49.1%
Marcus Foligno50.6%49.6%52.5%
Brock Faber46.7%51.5%46.9%

49.9% together, 50.0% for him apart and 49.1% for Johansson 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

223 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 28% from beyond forty.