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Ryan Pulock
New York Islanders Defense
Fewer penalties per 60 than any of the 202 qualified defencemen — two minutes in fifty-six games — with the 3rd-hardest shot of 192.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | NYI | 15 | 2 | 2 | 4 | +1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 13.3 | 15:44 |
| 2016-17 | NYI | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3:57 |
| 2017-18 | NYI | 68 | 10 | 22 | 32 | -4 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 184 | 5.4 | 18:24 |
| 2018-19 | NYI | 82 | 9 | 28 | 37 | +21 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 180 | 5.0 | 22:22 |
| 2019-20 | NYI | 68 | 10 | 25 | 35 | +8 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 163 | 6.1 | 22:24 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 56 | 2 | 15 | 17 | +15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 121 | 1.7 | 22:26 |
| 2021-22 | NYI | 56 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 4.1 | 21:08 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 346 | 38 | 108 | 146 | +42 | 65 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 785 | 4.8 | 21:04 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
56 games, 5 goals and 16 assists at 21:08 a night, even, two penalty minutes, 122 shots. Fifteenth overall in 2013, seven seasons, 346 games, 146 points, a career plus-42, all of it here.
The Finesse Game
101.7 mph is the 3rd-hardest shot of the 192 defencemen the tracking covers, behind Colton Parayko and Radko Gudas. 6.18 shots per 60 is the 31st-most of the 202 and 122 of them came in fifty-six games.
Nine per cent of them came from the slot at a 52-foot median. This is a point shot and it is one of the three hardest in the league at the position.
0.83 even-strength points per 60 is the 33rd percentile and twenty-nine per cent of his points came on the power play, where he takes 1:24.
48.1 per cent of the expected goals is the 36th percentile and 46.7 per cent of the attempts the 21st, from 43.4 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 139th-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts.
His ice went 44-42 against an expectation of 40.58-43.83.
The Physical Game
6.59 blocks per 60 is the 7th-most of the 202 defencemen who played forty games. 4.36 hits per 60 is the 53rd percentile at 6-1 and 219.
0.05 penalties taken per 60 is the fewest of all 202 qualified defencemen. Two penalty minutes across fifty-six games, at twenty-one minutes a night in the hardest half of the deployment. Nobody at his position gave less away to the referee.
The Intangibles
22.8 mph is the 92nd percentile among defencemen — the fastest on this blue line — while 8.03 miles per 60 is the 20th-least of the 192. Quick and stationary, which is the shape of every good defenceman on this roster.
He is 28 and played fifty-six of eighty-two, having played all eighty-two in 2018-19 and 68 of 70 in 2019-20. Availability is the one open question, and it is a new one.
The shot, the blocks and the discipline are three top-ten figures at his position in the same file, and the scoring rate says the club is right to use him as the second-pair right side rather than a power-play driver.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.04 penalty minutes a game over 56, 0th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
“6.59 blocks per 60 is the 7th-most of the 202 defencemen who played forty games.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 990 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.1%
- 39th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.7%
- 26th 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: 44 for, 42 against. Expected: 40.6 and 43.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 48 points above where the numbers do. 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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, 2021-22 · 56 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 94th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.57 a game
- Distance
- 2.83 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 101.7 mph
- 99th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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
2021-22 · 990 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Pelech47%
- Zdeno Charaoff the roster18%
- Andy Greeneoff the roster15%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- NYI took 46.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.1% — 1.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 990 minutes at five-on-five — 60th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Pelech | 51.4% | 44.7% | 51.2% |
| Josh Bailey | 40.7% | 51.2% | 45.5% |
| Kyle Palmieri | 48.5% | 47.9% | 50.0% |
51.4% together, 44.7% for him apart and 51.2% for Pelech apart. He was worse away from Pelech, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Pelech did.
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
155 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 54 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.