Ryan Reaves
San Jose Sharks Right Wing
1,100 career penalty minutes in 912 games, no goals in 35 last season, and 7:48 a night.
| 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 | TOR | 35 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 | 7:48 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 912 | 63 | 74 | 137 | -49 | 1100 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 597 | 10.5 | 8:46 |
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
No goals and 2 assists in 35 games for Toronto — 2 points at 7:48 a night, with 28 penalty minutes.
There is no five-on-five sample worth reporting and there is not meant to be. He was a healthy scratch for most of the second half and was traded to San Jose in the summer.
The Finesse Game
14 shot attempts in 35 games and no goals. 63 goals in 912 NHL games is the whole offensive record and it has never been the job.
The puck skills are below NHL standard and the deployment says so. He is not on the ice in any situation where the puck is expected to reach him.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 225 and among the most feared fighters of the last twenty years. He hits extremely hard, he answers everything, and men change what they do when he is on the ice.
1,100 penalty minutes in 912 career games. He crosses the line as a matter of employment and he has done it for fifteen seasons.
The Intangibles
A fifth-round pick in 2005 who did not reach the NHL until he was 24, and 912 games later across five organisations with a Stanley Cup in Vegas in 2023.
He is 38. San Jose acquired him in the summer, and on a roster whose two best players are 19 and 20 the argument is entirely about who is on the ice when somebody runs one of them.
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
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.
“He hits extremely hard, he answers everything, and men change what they do when he is on the ice.”
“He hits extremely hard, he answers everything, and men change what they do when he is on the ice.”
“**1,100 penalty minutes in 912 career games.** He crosses the line as a matter of employment and he has done it for fifteen seasons.”
“San Jose acquired him in the summer, and on a roster whose two best players are 19 and 20 the argument is entirely about who is on the ice when somebody runs one of them.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 271 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.5%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.4%
- 7th 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: 3 for, 6 against. Expected: 7.1 and 9.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 — 60 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 · 35 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 35th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.40 a game
- Distance
- 1.24 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 75.3 mph
- 9th 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 TOR · 271 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, 2024-25
- The club
- TOR took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.5% — 7.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 271 minutes at five-on-five — 5th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Lorentz | 52.6% | 21.8% | 50.8% |
| David Kampf | 47.0% | 37.3% | 44.4% |
| Jake McCabe | 53.4% | 37.6% | 52.4% |
52.6% together, 21.8% for him apart and 50.8% for Lorentz apart. He was worse away from Lorentz, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Lorentz 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
25 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 0 of them goals. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.