Ryan Poehling

A first-round pick who found a real job several years and several clubs later.

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

2018-19	MTL	1	3	0	3	+3	0	0	0	0	3	100.0	11:22
2019-20	MTL	27	1	1	2	-4	4	0	0	0	26	3.9	10:20
2021-22	MTL	57	9	8	17	-21	6	2	0	1	91	9.9	12:12
2022-23	PIT	53	7	7	14	-2	8	0	2	0	64	10.9	11:46
2023-24	PHI	77	11	17	28	-11	6	1	3	1	111	9.9	15:00
2024-25	PHI	68	12	19	31	-4	16	2	0	1	71	16.9	13:53
2025-26	ANA	75	11	25	36	+8	12	0	2	2	94	11.7	15:04
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	358	54	77	131	-31	52	5	7	5	460	11.7	13:31

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

11 goals and 25 assists in 75 games — 36 points, a career high — plus-8, at 15 minutes a night. 12 penalty minutes all year.

The Finesse Game

He is a straightforward third-line centre. He wins his share in the circle, he supports the puck, and he does not turn it over trying things he cannot do. 25 assists is more than he has managed before and most of it is the simple play made on time.

The shot is modest — 94 of them, 10 goals, median attempt 23 feet. He is not going to score his way into a bigger role.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 206, and he uses it to protect pucks rather than to punish anyone. 12 penalty minutes in a full season is either excellent discipline or a player who is never in the middle of anything; here it is closer to the first.

The Intangibles

25th overall in 2017, 4 goals in his first NHL game, and then several years of being not quite good enough for Montreal or Pittsburgh. He is 27 now and he has become useful, which is a decent outcome for a first-rounder who looked like a miss.

The plus-8 is flattering. At 5-on-5 the goals went 44-42 his way and the expected goals 38.2 to 41.5 — 33rd percentile. He is being asked to hold down a middle-6 role on a team whose defensive numbers were among the worst in the league, and he is not the man who solves that.

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.

disciplined· stays out of the box
0.16 penalty minutes a game over 75, 8th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 898 minutes

Expected goals: 48%; 37th pct
Shot attempts: 48.8%; 44th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 42 against. Expected: 38.2 and 41.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

23rd

Numbers

37th

The two rank him within 14 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 — 67 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 · 75 games

Top speed: 23.1 mph; 88th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.87 a game
Distance: 2.57 miles a game
Hardest shot: 80.8 mph; 24th 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 — 2 goals, 3 assists, 22 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 898 minutes at five-on-five

Alex Killorn32%
Jeffrey Vielnow TBL27%
Ross Johnstonnow STL23%

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: ANA took 50.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.0% — 2.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 898 minutes at five-on-five — 48th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jacob Trouba	45.6%	49.4%	51.0%
Jackson LaCombe	50.7%	46.3%	52.2%
Alex Killorn	46.6%	48.6%	52.5%

45.6% together, 49.4% for him apart and 51.0% for Trouba apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

142 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.