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Ryan Pulock
New York Islanders Defense
A career plus-55 in 486 games, and fifty-eight of eighty-two.
| 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 | NYI | 82 | 5 | 21 | 26 | +10 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 126 | 4.0 | 20:54 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 58 | 5 | 14 | 19 | +3 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 90 | 5.6 | 22:33 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 486 | 48 | 143 | 191 | +55 | 91 | 16 | 0 | 9 | 1001 | 4.8 | 21:13 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
58 games, 5 goals and 14 assists for 19 points, 2 on the power play, 12 penalty minutes, 22:33 a night and plus-3. He took 49.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,093 minutes, the 46th percentile, and his ice went 46-45 against an expectation of 42.89-44.64.
Three goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and level at the other end. Fifty-eight games is the second time in three full seasons he has missed twenty or more, and the club’s penalty kill finished twenty-sixth in the year he and Adam Pelech each missed twenty-four.
The Finesse Game
129 attempts at a median of 53 feet, with 2 per cent from inside twenty and 78 per cent from beyond forty, 90 on goal, converted at 5.6 per cent against a career 4.80.
143 career assists in 486 games. The shot from the point is genuinely heavy — 16 career power-play goals from it — and there is no carrying at all. He moves it first-time and gets back.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 219 and defends by position and body, holding the front of his own net.
91 career penalty minutes in 486 games at twenty-one minutes a night is one of the lowest rates in the league. He blocks shots, clears the crease, and kills penalties without ever taking one.
The Intangibles
Fifteenth overall in 2013 out of Dauphin, Manitoba, nine seasons, 486 games and 191 points, all of it for one organisation, at a career plus-55.
He is 30 and is a genuinely good defensive defenceman who cannot stay in a lineup. The club’s record with and without him is most of what the penalty-kill ranking is describing.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.21 penalty minutes a game over 58, 8th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
39% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 10th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He blocks shots, clears the crease, and kills penalties without ever taking one.”
“He blocks shots, clears the crease, and kills penalties without ever taking one.”
“He blocks shots, clears the crease, and kills penalties without ever taking one.”
“He is 6-1 and 219 and defends by position and body, holding the front of his own net.”
“He moves it first-time and gets back.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,093 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49%
- 46th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.5%
- 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, 45 against. Expected: 42.9 and 44.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 26 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 652 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, 2023-24 · 58 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 48th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.50 a game
- Distance
- 3.10 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 100.8 mph
- 96th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 · 1093 minutes at five-on-five
- Adam Pelech27%
- Mike Reilly11%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- NYI took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.0% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,093 minutes at five-on-five — 71st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Romanov | 48.6% | 49.4% | 48.6% |
| Bo Horvat | 52.0% | 47.4% | 53.6% |
| Mathew Barzal | 50.2% | 48.4% | 53.6% |
48.6% together, 49.4% for him apart and 48.6% for Romanov 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
129 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 40 feet. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.