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Ryan McDonagh
Tampa Bay Lightning Defense
A career plus-246, the second-largest figure in this edition.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | NYR | 40 | 1 | 8 | 9 | +16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 3.7 | 18:44 |
| 2011-12 | NYR | 82 | 7 | 25 | 32 | +25 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 123 | 5.7 | 24:44 |
| 2012-13 | NYR | 47 | 4 | 15 | 19 | +13 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 4.8 | 24:21 |
| 2013-14 | NYR | 77 | 14 | 29 | 43 | +11 | 36 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 177 | 7.9 | 24:49 |
| 2014-15 | NYR | 71 | 8 | 25 | 33 | +23 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 148 | 5.4 | 23:08 |
| 2015-16 | NYR | 73 | 9 | 25 | 34 | +26 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 113 | 8.0 | 22:21 |
| 2016-17 | NYR | 77 | 6 | 36 | 42 | +20 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 153 | 3.9 | 24:21 |
| 2017-18 | NYR/TBL | 63 | 4 | 25 | 29 | +8 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 4.0 | 23:20 |
| 2018-19 | TBL | 82 | 9 | 37 | 46 | +38 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 128 | 7.0 | 22:05 |
| 2019-20 | TBL | 50 | 1 | 11 | 12 | +7 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 2.0 | 20:42 |
| 2020-21 | TBL | 50 | 4 | 8 | 12 | +13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 4.7 | 21:54 |
| 2021-22 | TBL | 71 | 4 | 22 | 26 | +15 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 4.7 | 22:27 |
| 2022-23 | NSH | 71 | 2 | 18 | 20 | +12 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 78 | 2.6 | 21:32 |
| 2023-24 | NSH | 74 | 3 | 29 | 32 | +19 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 3.3 | 21:47 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 928 | 76 | 313 | 389 | +246 | 357 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 1440 | 5.3 | 22:46 |
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
74 games with Nashville, 3 goals and 29 assists for 32 points, 31 penalty minutes, 21:47 a night and plus-19, with 1 game-winner. He took 55.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,300 minutes, the 87th percentile, and his ice went 53-42 against an expectation of 60.93-49.22.
Eight goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and seven goals of goaltending above them. The 55.3 per cent is the best chance share of any defenceman on this roster and the plus-19 is the second-largest figure anybody here produced.
The Finesse Game
130 attempts at a median of 55 feet with 75 per cent of them from beyond forty and 9 per cent from inside twenty, 88 of those on goal, converted at 3.3 per cent against a career 5.28 across 1,440 shots.
313 career assists against 76 goals in 928 games. There has never been much shot here and there has never needed to be; the value is a first pass that beats the forecheck and fourteen seasons of never being caught on the wrong side of the puck.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 216 and took 31 penalty minutes.
357 career penalty minutes in 928 games. He is compact and heavy and defends by taking the ice away early rather than by hitting; he can move a forward out of the crease when he has to and does not go looking for the chance.
The Intangibles
Twelfth overall in 2007 by Montreal, fourteen seasons, three organisations, and 389 points in 928 games.
A career plus-246 — the second-largest figure in this edition, behind only Brad Marchand. He was drafted by a club he never played for and has spent fourteen seasons being the reason somebody else’s best line did not score.
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.
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
55.3% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 51.1% for his club in the minutes he sat: +4.2, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
“A career plus-246 — the second-largest figure in this edition, behind only Brad Marchand.”
“There has never been much shot here and there has never needed to be; the value is a first pass that beats the forecheck and fourteen seasons of never being caught on the wrong side of the puck.”
“He is compact and heavy and defends by taking the ice away early rather than by hitting; he can move a forward out of the crease when he has to and does not go looking for the chance.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,300 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.3%
- 89th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.1%
- 80th 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: 53 for, 42 against. Expected: 60.9 and 49.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 — 77 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 · 74 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 85th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.66 a game
- Distance
- 2.94 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.7 mph
- 69th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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 NSH · 1300 minutes at five-on-five
- Roman Josi34%
- Luke Schenn29%
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
- NSH took 52.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.3% — 2.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,300 minutes at five-on-five — 90th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roman Josi | 56.9% | 54.4% | 53.3% |
| Filip Forsberg | 58.7% | 53.6% | 52.0% |
| Ryan O'Reilly | 56.7% | 54.6% | 51.0% |
56.9% together, 54.4% for him apart and 53.3% for Josi apart. Josi was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Josi than for 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
130 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 28 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.