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Ryan Lindgren
New York Rangers Defense
Ten goals in 333 games, a career plus-99, and the largest finishing surplus on a first-place club.
| 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 | NYR | 63 | 1 | 17 | 18 | +29 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 75 | 1.3 | 18:50 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 76 | 3 | 14 | 17 | +22 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 73 | 4.1 | 19:21 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 333 | 10 | 70 | 80 | +99 | 219 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 341 | 2.9 | 18:57 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
76 games, 3 goals and 14 assists for 17 points, 36 penalty minutes, 19:21 a night and plus-22. He took 47.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,244 minutes, the 37th percentile, and his ice went 55-44 against an expectation of 46.50-50.61.
Nine goals of finishing above what the chances were worth — the largest surplus on the club — and seven fewer conceded than they called for. A 37th-percentile chance share that produced a plus-22 is both ends running hot at once, and it will not repeat.
The Finesse Game
102 attempts at a median of 54 feet with 75 per cent from beyond 40, 73 on goal, converted at 4.1 per cent against a career 2.93.
70 career assists in 333 games and 10 goals. There is no offence at all and there is not supposed to be. He gets it off the wall and out and does not carry it.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 194 and blocks more shots than almost anybody on this roster.
219 career penalty minutes in 333 games is a real rate. He clears the crease, takes a beating in front of his own net every night, and kills penalties without complaint or reward.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2016 by Boston, out of Burnsville, Minnesota, six seasons, and 80 points in 333 games at a career plus-99.
He is 26 and a career plus-99 in 333 games is a very large number for a defenceman with ten career goals. He plays beside Adam Fox and does the half of the job Fox does not.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,244 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 38th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.6%
- 42nd 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: 55 for, 44 against. Expected: 46.5 and 50.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 20 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 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
2023-24 · 1244 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Fox73%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- NYR took 50.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.9% — 2.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,244 minutes at five-on-five — 86th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Fox | 49.7% | 42.4% | 65.8% |
| Vincent Trocheck | 48.7% | 47.4% | 57.9% |
| Artemi Panarin | 54.4% | 44.2% | 58.1% |
49.7% together, 42.4% for him apart and 65.8% 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
102 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.