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Ryan Lomberg
Calgary Flames Left Wing
Undrafted, five foot nine, and 359 penalty minutes in 257 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | CGY | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 6:15 |
| 2018-19 | CGY | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 6:59 |
| 2020-21 | FLA | 34 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 4.3 | 9:43 |
| 2021-22 | FLA | 55 | 9 | 9 | 18 | +4 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 9.9 | 11:24 |
| 2022-23 | FLA | 82 | 12 | 8 | 20 | -1 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 134 | 9.0 | 11:19 |
| 2023-24 | FLA | 75 | 5 | 2 | 7 | -1 | 80 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 68 | 7.3 | 9:32 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 257 | 28 | 22 | 50 | 0 | 359 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 346 | 8.1 | 10:24 |
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
5 goals and 2 assists in 75 games for Florida — 7 points at 9:32 a night, minus-1, with 1 power-play goal and 2 game-winners on 68 shots at 7.35 per cent, and 80 penalty minutes.
46.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 696 minutes, the 30th percentile. His ice went 17-18 against an expectation of 22.09-25.17 — eleven goals scored above expectation, on the club that won the Stanley Cup.
The Finesse Game
68 attempts at a median of 25 feet, with 42 per cent from inside 20 and 19 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 7.35 per cent. Twenty-eight goals in 257 NHL games.
Two assists in seventy-five games. He does not create, he does not carry the puck and the club does not ask — the job is to forecheck, finish the check and change.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 184, and he will fight men a foot taller. He finishes every check and he forechecks first, and the skating is quick enough that the arrival matters.
359 penalty minutes in 257 games — very nearly a minute and a half a game across six seasons. He takes liberties and he answers for them.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Kirkland Lake, and 257 NHL games at 29 across two clubs, with a Stanley Cup with Florida in 2024.
He was signed here in the summer. An undrafted 5-9 forward who plays 257 NHL games by being willing to fight anybody has one skill and it is a real one, and on a club that has traded most of its top end it will get him more ice than it should.
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.
“**Undrafted**, out of Kirkland Lake, and **257 NHL games at 29** across two clubs, with **a Stanley Cup with Florida in 2024.**”
“**He finishes every check and he forechecks first**, and the skating is quick enough that the arrival matters.”
“**He finishes every check and he forechecks first**, and the skating is quick enough that the arrival matters.”
“**5-9 and 184, and he will fight men a foot taller.**”
“**359 penalty minutes in 257 games** — very nearly a minute and a half a game across six seasons. **He takes liberties and he answers for them.**”
“**He does not create, he does not carry the puck and the club does not ask** — the job is to forecheck, finish the check and change.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 696 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.7%
- 30th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.8%
- 54th 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: 17 for, 18 against. Expected: 22.1 and 25.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 64 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, 2023-24 · 75 games
- Top speed
- 23.5 mph
- 97th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.25 a game
- Distance
- 1.56 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.5 mph
- 27th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 with FLA · 696 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, 2023-24
- The club
- FLA took 53.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.7% — 7.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 696 minutes at five-on-five — 31st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Stenlund | 41.6% | 55.6% | 48.1% |
| Niko Mikkola | 46.4% | 46.9% | 52.7% |
| Dmitry Kulikov | 42.3% | 49.3% | 56.7% |
41.6% together, 55.6% for him apart and 48.1% for Stenlund apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 28 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.