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Ryan Lindgren
Seattle Kraken Defense
Ninety-nine career plus-minus and 259 penalty minutes from a defenceman who blocks everything and was traded twice in four months.
| 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 | NYR/COL | 72 | 4 | 18 | 22 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 6.3 | 19:42 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 405 | 14 | 88 | 102 | +99 | 259 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 404 | 3.5 | 19:05 |
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
4 goals and 18 assists in 72 games across New York and Colorado — 22 points at 19:42 a night, even on the year, with 40 penalty minutes.
22 points is a career high, which for a defenceman in his seventh season says exactly what he is for. He was traded at the deadline and signed with Seattle in the summer.
The Finesse Game
63 attempts in 72 games and 4 goals. There is no shot: 102 points in 405 NHL games.
The first pass is the whole puck game and it is fine rather than good. Under a hard forecheck he goes off the wall and he does not attempt the play through the middle, which is the correct choice and a real ceiling.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 194 and he plays a great deal heavier. He blocks shots at a rate among the highest in the league, he clears his crease against men who outweigh him by thirty pounds, and he finishes every check.
40 penalty minutes in 72 games and 259 in 405 career games. He does not back out of anything. The body has taken the cost of it — he has missed time in most seasons of his career.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick of Boston in 2016 who came to the Rangers in the Rick Nash trade, and 405 games with a career plus-99.
He is 27, he has played six seasons of top-four minutes on a club that was very good and then was not, and Seattle signed him in the summer for a blue line that needed somebody to defend the net front on the second pair.
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.
“**He blocks shots at a rate among the highest in the league**, he clears his crease against men who outweigh him by thirty pounds, and he finishes every check.”
“**He blocks shots at a rate among the highest in the league**, he clears his crease against men who outweigh him by thirty pounds, and he finishes every check.”
“**He blocks shots at a rate among the highest in the league**, he clears his crease against men who outweigh him by thirty pounds, and he finishes every check.”
“Under a hard forecheck he goes off the wall and he does not attempt the play through the middle, which is the correct choice and a real ceiling.”
“He does not back out of anything.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,205 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.5%
- 23rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.2%
- 55th 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: 46 for, 53 against. Expected: 45.7 and 52.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 7 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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 · 72 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 66th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.54 a game
- Distance
- 2.75 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.9 mph
- 33rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 with NYR · 914 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Fox67%
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
- COL took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.5% — 6.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 1,205 minutes at five-on-five — 85th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Fox | 48.7% | 43.9% | 59.5% |
| Vincent Trocheck | 43.6% | 47.7% | 50.3% |
| Artemi Panarin | 49.6% | 45.3% | 51.1% |
48.7% together, 43.9% for him apart and 59.5% 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
108 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 70% from beyond forty.