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Ryan Poehling
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 775 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.3%
- 74th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.4%
- 20th 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: 46 for, 38 against. Expected: 29.1 and 26.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 21 points above where the report does. 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. 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 357 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with PHI · 775 minutes at five-on-five
- Garnet Hathaway42%
- Scott Laughtonnow TOR29%
- 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 52.3% — 0.2 above 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 | 55.3% | 49.9% | 52.3% |
| Travis Sanheim | 51.2% | 52.9% | 54.3% |
| Nick Seeler | 52.5% | 52.2% | 44.9% |
55.3% together, 49.9% for him apart and 52.3% for Hathaway 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
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.