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Ryan Reaves

One thousand and seventy-two career penalty minutes, the fifth-most in this edition.

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

2010-11	STL	28	2	2	4	-1	78	0	0	1	16	12.5	6:48
2011-12	STL	60	3	1	4	0	124	0	0	1	32	9.4	6:32
2012-13	STL	43	4	2	6	+3	79	0	0	1	24	16.7	7:27
2013-14	STL	63	2	6	8	-1	126	0	0	0	25	8.0	8:31
2014-15	STL	81	6	6	12	-3	116	0	0	1	55	10.9	8:31
2015-16	STL	64	3	1	4	-6	68	0	0	0	31	9.7	8:02
2016-17	STL	80	7	6	13	+4	104	0	0	1	58	12.1	8:53
2017-18	PIT/VGK	79	4	6	10	-7	94	0	0	1	42	9.5	7:36
2018-19	VGK	80	9	11	20	+1	74	3	0	2	95	9.5	10:52
2019-20	VGK	71	8	7	15	-5	47	0	0	1	61	13.1	10:09
2020-21	VGK	37	1	4	5	0	27	0	0	0	26	3.9	9:56
2021-22	NYR	69	5	8	13	-13	43	0	0	0	44	11.4	10:39
2022-23	NYR/MIN	73	5	10	15	-6	43	0	0	0	48	10.4	9:20
2023-24	TOR	49	4	2	6	-13	49	0	0	0	26	15.4	8:07
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	877	63	72	135	-47	1072	3	0	9	583	10.8	8:48

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

49 games, 4 goals and 2 assists for 6 points, 49 penalty minutes, 8:07 a night and minus-13. He took 48.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 394 minutes, the 42nd percentile, and his ice went 10-22 against an expectation of 13.42-14.18.

Three goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and eight more conceded than they called for. Ten goals for and twenty-two against in 394 minutes is a very hard sixteen games’ worth of ice.

The Finesse Game

45 attempts at a median of 17 feet with 58 per cent of them from inside twenty, 25 of those on goal, converted at 15.4 per cent against a career 10.81 across 583 shots.

Sixty-three career goals in 877 games. Everything he has ever scored has come from inside twenty feet, because that is the only place he goes with the puck; 72 career assists in fourteen seasons is the rest of it.

The Physical Game

He is 6-2 and 225 and took 49 penalty minutes in 49 games.

1,072 career penalty minutes in 877 games — the fifth-most in this edition. He fights, he runs people, and he has made a fourteen-season career out of being the man a club sends over the boards when it wants something to happen after the whistle.

The Intangibles

One hundred and fifty-sixth overall in 2005 by St. Louis, fourteen seasons, and Toronto is his sixth organisation.

A career minus-47 across fourteen seasons and 877 games. He is 37 and has played eight minutes a night for most of a decade, and six clubs have wanted him for exactly one thing.

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.

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.

nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“He fights, he runs people, and he has made a fourteen-season career out of being the man a club sends over the boards when it wants something to happen after the whistle.”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“Everything he has ever scored has come from inside twenty feet, because that is the only place he goes with the puck; 72 career assists in fourteen seasons is the rest of it.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“1,072 career penalty minutes in 877 games — the fifth-most in this edition.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 394 minutes

Expected goals: 48.6%; 43rd pct
Shot attempts: 47.6%; 32nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 10 for, 22 against. Expected: 13.4 and 14.2.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

43rd

Numbers

43rd

The two rank him within 0 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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 · 49 games

Top speed: 22.3 mph; 57th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.37 a game
Distance: 1.25 miles a game
Hardest shot: 95.2 mph; 91st 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.

Usual linemates

2023-24 · 394 minutes at five-on-five

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: TOR took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 3.5 below the club he did it on.
The role: 394 minutes at five-on-five — 12th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
David Kampf	52.6%	40.8%	40.7%
Noah Gregor	39.7%	54.7%	42.8%
Pontus Holmberg	56.1%	44.5%	51.3%

52.6% together, 40.8% for him apart and 40.7% for Kampf 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

45 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 58% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.