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Ryan Lindgren
New York Rangers Defense
The 7th-percentile shot rate and the 96th-percentile slot share, from a defenceman who took 1,961 attempts beside Adam Fox.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | NYR | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 14:35 |
| 2019-20 | NYR | 60 | 1 | 13 | 14 | +16 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 2.1 | 16:34 |
| 2020-21 | NYR | 51 | 1 | 15 | 16 | +20 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 1.5 | 20:00 |
| 2021-22 | NYR | 78 | 4 | 11 | 15 | +18 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 73 | 5.5 | 20:06 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 194 | 6 | 39 | 45 | +48 | 138 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 193 | 3.1 | 18:50 |
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
78 games, 4 goals and 11 assists at 20:06 a night, plus-18, forty-eight penalty minutes, 73 shots. Forty-ninth overall in 2016 by Boston, four seasons, 194 games, 45 points, a career plus-48.
The Finesse Game
2.79 shots per 60 is the 7th percentile among defencemen — seventy-three shots in seventy-eight games — and none of his points came on the power play at all. He takes four seconds of it a night.
When he does shoot the geography is unusual: twenty-one per cent from the slot is the 96th percentile among defencemen, at a 47-foot median in the 19th. He shoots rarely and from closer than nearly every defenceman in the league, which is the same signature Adam Fox carries.
0.65 even-strength points per 60 is the 18th percentile. 1.22 giveaways per 60 is the 16th — he does not lose it, and does not carry it far.
48.8 per cent of the expected goals and 48.0 per cent of the attempts, from 55.2 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 179th-highest of 652 skaters. That is soft usage for a defence pair the club uses against the other team’s best.
His ice went 53-44 against an expectation of 50.42-52.80 — nine fewer against than the model asked.
He and Adam Fox took 50.2 per cent of the attempts across 1,961 of them together, and the apart samples are small enough to be quoted with care: Fox apart from him is 53.7 per cent across 432 attempts, Lindgren apart from Fox 39.6 across 330. The direction is unambiguous and the sample is not large.
The Physical Game
5.40 blocks per 60 is the 84th percentile among defencemen, at 6-0 and 194 pounds.
4.94 hits per 60 is the 62nd percentile. 0.65 penalties drawn per 60 is the 82nd against 0.92 taken, and forty-eight penalty minutes came out of seventy-eight games.
The Intangibles
22.1 mph is the 57th percentile, 2.3 bursts per 60 the 74th, 8.38 miles per 60 the 41st. 88.4 mph is the 8th percentile for shot speed.
He is 24 and has played 194 games with the best young defenceman in the league on his right. The blocks, the deployment and the low giveaway rate are the case for him; the shot rate, the scoring and the pair split are the case against. The record cannot settle it, and 1,961 attempts is a lot of evidence pointing one way.
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
- 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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
21.2% of his attempts in the slot, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“5.40 blocks per 60 is the 84th percentile among defencemen, at 6-0 and 194 pounds.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,350 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.8%
- 46th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48%
- 37th 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: 53 for, 44 against. Expected: 50.4 and 52.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 2 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 60 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 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 70th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.78 a game
- Distance
- 2.81 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.4 mph
- 28th 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 · 1350 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Fox85%
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
- NYR took 46.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.8% — 2.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,350 minutes at five-on-five — 92nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Fox | 50.2% | 39.6% | 53.7% |
| Mika Zibanejad | 53.2% | 46.6% | 47.9% |
| Chris Kreider | 56.3% | 45.4% | 49.5% |
50.2% together, 39.6% for him apart and 53.7% for Fox apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Fox and did not follow him.
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
99 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 16% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 62% from beyond forty.