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Ryan O'Reilly

57 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet at 34, 24 penalty minutes in 79 games, and the hardest defensive assignment on a club whose penalty kill finished 8th in the league.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1152	303	521	824	-21	194	96	11	40	2539	11.9	19:33

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

79 games, 21 goals and 32 assists for 53 points at 18:59 a night, on 151 shots at 13.91 per cent. 24 penalty minutes, the lowest rate among the club’s top-six forwards. Minus-23.

A 50.2 per cent chance share is the best among the club’s veteran forwards, and the on-ice goals were 38-52 against an expected 43.53-43.18 — thirteen goals unscored and nine extra conceded. He was the most defensively responsible forward on the roster and he was on the ice for 53 five-on-five goals against, which is the whole season in one line.

The Finesse Game

57 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 17 — by a distance the most interior profile on the club, and at 34 that is a decision rather than an accident. He does not have a shot that beats a goaltender from the circle any more and he has rebuilt the game accordingly: below the goal line, off the wall, into the paint.

The faceoff work is elite and always has been. The passing is patient and a half-step slower than it was. He reads a breakout before it develops, which is the reputation and is why the important draw is his. The zone is not: 57.4 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 79th percentile.

The Physical Game

207 pounds and strong on a puck below the goal line in a way that never depended on speed. He absorbs cross-checks in the crease and does not answer them.

24 penalty minutes in 79 games, at nineteen minutes a night, doing that job is remarkable discipline — and it is not an accident of one season, it is how he has always played.

The Intangibles

A Conn Smythe winner and a Selke winner, and the professional standard on a club that badly needed one.

He is 34, the skating is going, and every part of his game that was never about speed is entirely intact. Those parts happen to be the ones that matter most in April.

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
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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
71.7% of his attempts in the slot, 98th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
defensively-responsiblea strength· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“He was the most defensively responsible forward on the roster and he was on the ice for 53 five-on-five goals against, which is the whole season in one line.”
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“57 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 17 — by a distance the most interior profile on the club, and at 34 that is a decision rather than an accident.”
faceoffsa strength· takes the draw that starts it
“The faceoff work is elite and always has been.”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“207 pounds and strong on a puck below the goal line in a way that never depended on speed.”
retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“He absorbs cross-checks in the crease and does not answer them.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“A Conn Smythe winner and a Selke winner, and the professional standard on a club that badly needed one.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,053 minutes

Expected goals: 50.2%; 55th pct
Shot attempts: 53.5%; 86th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 38 for, 52 against. Expected: 43.5 and 43.2.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

60th

Numbers

55th

The 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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 · 79 games

Top speed: 22.5 mph; 61st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.77 a game
Distance: 3.03 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.5 mph; 48th 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1053 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, 2024-25

The club: NSH took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.2% — 1.0 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,053 minutes at five-on-five — 68th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Filip Forsberg	48.4%	52.4%	48.9%
Gustav Nyquist	53.1%	47.9%	47.9%
Brady Skjei	48.8%	51.3%	46.1%

48.4% together, 52.4% for him apart and 48.9% for Forsberg apart. He was better away from Forsberg, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Forsberg.

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

226 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 57% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.