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Ryan Poehling
Anaheim Ducks Center
31 points on a 16.9 per cent shooting rate, which is twice what he had ever managed before.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 283 | 43 | 52 | 95 | -39 | 40 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 366 | 11.8 | 13:06 |
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
12 goals and 19 assists in 68 games for 31 points, minus-4, on 13:53 a night with Philadelphia.
12 goals on 71 shots is 16.9 per cent, roughly double his career rate, in a bottom-six role. It is the only season of his career above 20 points and the shot volume underneath it did not change.
The Finesse Game
Limited and honest. 71 shots in 68 games is very little, and the hands are functional rather than dangerous — nothing about last season suggests a scorer arrived at 26.
What is real is the work away from the puck. He supports it properly, he is reliable on a breakout, and he takes a defensive-zone draw without needing a winger to bail him out. That is a fourth-line centre’s skill set and it is a genuine one.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 206, and willing. He finishes checks on the forecheck, wins his share below the goal line, and can be put out to protect a lead.
16 penalty minutes in 68 games. Nothing careless, and the durability has been reasonable across a career spent on the roster bubble.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick who was going to be a second-line centre, spent five years finding out he was not, and has settled into being useful.
He arrived as part of the Trevor Zegras trade, which makes the comparison unavoidable and unkind. The projection is a fourth-line centre at 12 goals rather than 31, and a club should plan on 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
- 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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
66.0% of his attempts in the slot, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
36% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 10th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“he takes a defensive-zone draw without needing a winger to bail him out”
“He finishes checks on the forecheck”
“wins his share below the goal line”
“can be put out to protect a lead”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 775 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.5%
- 67th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.9%
- 17th 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: 31 for, 33 against. Expected: 27.5 and 25.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 12 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 — 73 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 · 68 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 87th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.79 a game
- Distance
- 2.34 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.9 mph
- 38th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 with PHI · 775 minutes at five-on-five
- Owen Tippett27%
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
- PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.5% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 775 minutes at five-on-five — 34th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garnet Hathaway | 52.9% | 50.5% | 51.4% |
| Travis Sanheim | 49.9% | 52.5% | 54.1% |
| Scott Laughton | 55.5% | 50.0% | 49.3% |
52.9% together, 50.5% for him apart and 51.4% for Hathaway apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
103 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 52% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.