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Ryan O'Reilly

64 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet — the highest share in this book.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2009-10	COL	81	8	18	26	+4	18	0	2	2	135	5.9	16:46
2010-11	COL	74	13	13	26	-7	16	2	1	0	119	10.9	16:03
2011-12	COL	81	18	37	55	-1	12	4	0	3	189	9.5	19:32
2012-13	COL	29	6	14	20	-3	4	3	0	0	66	9.1	18:30
2013-14	COL	80	28	36	64	-1	2	9	0	6	201	13.9	19:49
2014-15	COL	82	17	38	55	-5	12	2	1	1	171	9.9	19:43
2015-16	BUF	71	21	39	60	-16	8	8	1	2	157	13.4	21:44
2016-17	BUF	72	20	35	55	-1	10	8	1	3	189	10.6	21:28
2017-18	BUF	81	24	37	61	-23	2	15	0	3	230	10.4	20:49
2018-19	STL	82	28	49	77	+22	12	6	1	5	234	12.0	20:46
2019-20	STL	71	12	49	61	+11	10	2	1	3	118	10.2	20:34
2020-21	STL	56	24	30	54	+26	18	4	2	4	129	18.6	20:45
2021-22	STL	78	21	37	58	+11	12	9	0	0	168	12.5	19:05
2022-23	STL/TOR	53	16	14	30	-21	16	1	1	4	102	15.7	17:57
2023-24	NSH	82	26	43	69	+6	18	14	0	1	180	14.4	19:46
2024-25	NSH	79	21	32	53	-23	24	9	0	3	151	13.9	18:59
2025-26	NSH	81	25	49	74	+8	22	5	2	8	154	16.2	20:24
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1233	328	570	898	-13	216	101	13	48	2693	12.2	19:37

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

25 goals and 49 assists in 81 games — 74 points, plus-8 on a club that was minus-20, at 20:24 a night. His 1,233rd career game.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the most extreme of any regular forward in this edition. 64 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, with a median of 13 and only 8 per cent from beyond 40.

Nobody covered here shoots from closer. He is 35, he has no speed, and he scored 25 goals by standing in the paint and being impossible to move off it.

49 assists is the larger half. He is still one of the best puck-protection centres in the league below the goal line, and the pass out of the corner is the reason Evangelista had 44 assists of his own.

The Physical Game

6-1, 207, and he wins pucks with body position and a stick that is always in the right place. 22 penalty minutes in 81 games of the hardest defensive assignment on the roster.

He takes every important faceoff and wins most of them.

The Intangibles

50.3 per cent of the expected goals, 57th percentile, on a club at 47.8. Plus-8 on a team that finished minus-20 — the best figure on the roster by a distance, in the hardest minutes.

A Conn Smythe, a Selke, a Stanley Cup, 898 points, and a career built entirely on doing the difficult half of the game well enough to be given the easy half as a reward.

8 points in his last 10. He is 35 and still the most useful player on this team.

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

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
74.2% of his attempts in the slot, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,175 minutes

Expected goals: 50.3%; 57th pct
Shot attempts: 52.6%; 79th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 57 for, 45 against. Expected: 52.5 and 52.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

92nd

Numbers

57th

The report ranks him 35 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 81 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, 2025-26 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 45th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.89 a game
Distance: 3.28 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.8 mph; 50th pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 7 assists, 20 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1175 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, 2025-26

The club: NSH took 47.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.3% — 2.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,175 minutes at five-on-five — 80th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Luke Evangelista	55.7%	44.3%	50.9%
Steven Stamkos	51.5%	48.7%	47.7%
Filip Forsberg	51.7%	48.9%	45.7%

55.7% together, 44.3% for him apart and 50.9% for Evangelista apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

236 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 28 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 64% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.