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Ryan Hartman

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

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	649	139	165	304	+52	652	13	3	28	1362	10.2	14:35

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.

49.8 per cent at five-on-five, the 50th 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.

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
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.

nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“6 feet and 197, and he plays right at the edge of what the league allows.”
agitatora strength· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“He hits, he agitates, and he is among the more genuinely disliked opponents in hockey.”
takes-libertiesa strength· crosses the line and knows where it is
“**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”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“15 assists is thin. He is a shooter who needs a centre”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 893 minutes

Expected goals: 49.8%; 51st pct
Shot attempts: 48.5%; 38th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 30 for, 30 against. Expected: 32.1 and 32.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

72nd

Numbers

51st

The report ranks him 21 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 — 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 69 games

Top speed: 22.3 mph; 50th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.72 a game
Distance: 2.30 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.3 mph; 54th 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.

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 49.8% — 0.7 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

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Marcus Johansson	48.9%	50.3%	47.1%
Marcus Foligno	52.6%	48.2%	53.1%
Brock Faber	49.0%	50.2%	45.6%

48.9% together, 50.3% for him apart and 47.1% 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.