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Ryan Lomberg
Calgary Flames Left Wing
5-9, 13 points, 57 penalty minutes, and a 41.5 per cent chance share — the 4th percentile in the league.
| 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 | CGY | 80 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -5 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 4.5 | 8:39 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 337 | 31 | 32 | 63 | -5 | 416 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 412 | 7.5 | 9:59 |
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
3 goals and 10 assists in 80 games for 13 points, minus-5, on 8:39 a night — the smallest role on the roster.
42.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 7th percentile, over 652 minutes. His on-ice goals were 18-22 against an expected 19-25, so the goaltending covered part of it and the shifts were genuinely bad.
The Finesse Game
None to speak of. 66 shots in 80 games and 3 goals, and 10 assists — there is no offensive contribution and there has never been one.
He forechecks and finishes checks. That is the whole of it.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 184, and he fights men a foot taller than him without hesitation. He hits, he is willing, and he has built a nine-year career out of being the smallest man on the ice and the least worried about it.
57 penalty minutes in 80 games is a high rate for eight and a half minutes a night, and on a club with the 24th penalty kill it is a direct cost.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, a Cup in Florida, and a career made entirely out of willingness.
The honest reading is that a 4th-percentile chance share over 652 minutes is a genuine cost that the role does not justify. The league is carrying fewer of these players every year for exactly this reason.
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.
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He forechecks and finishes checks. That is the whole of it.”
“He hits, he is willing, and he has built a nine-year career out of being the smallest man on the ice and the least worried about it.”
“5-9 and 184, and he fights men a foot taller than him without hesitation.”
“Undrafted, a Cup in Florida, and a career made entirely out of willingness.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 652 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.5%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.1%
- 19th 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: 18 for, 22 against. Expected: 18.7 and 25.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 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 — 68 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 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 74th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.04 a game
- Distance
- 1.43 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 80.7 mph
- 21st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 652 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Klapka25%
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
- CGY took 48.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.5% — 6.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 652 minutes at five-on-five — 25th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Rooney | 42.8% | 42.1% | 42.2% |
| Brayden Pachal | 40.4% | 43.7% | 49.3% |
| MacKenzie Weegar | 45.9% | 41.1% | 51.7% |
42.8% together, 42.1% for him apart and 42.2% for Rooney 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
97 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.