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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.
41.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 4th percentile, over 652 minutes. His on-ice goals were 16-22 against an expected 18-26, 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 23rd 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 652 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.5%
- 4th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.9%
- 16th 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: 16 for, 22 against. Expected: 18.3 and 25.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 22 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 357 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 652 minutes at five-on-five
- Kevin Rooneynow UTA62%
- 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 41.5% — 7.2 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% | 39.5% | 42.7% |
| Brayden Pachal | 39.4% | 42.7% | 49.1% |
| MacKenzie Weegar | 43.8% | 40.5% | 51.3% |
42.8% together, 39.5% for him apart and 42.7% for Rooney apart. He was worse away from Rooney, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Rooney did.
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.