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Ryan Strome

500 career points, and a season that reads like the end of the useful part.

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

2013-14	NYI	37	7	11	18	-1	8	4	0	1	89	7.9	15:11
2014-15	NYI	81	17	33	50	+23	47	1	1	2	179	9.5	15:24
2015-16	NYI	71	8	20	28	-9	28	1	0	0	132	6.1	15:39
2016-17	NYI	69	13	17	30	-8	40	2	0	2	114	11.4	14:36
2017-18	EDM	82	13	21	34	-4	33	2	0	3	147	8.8	15:13
2018-19	EDM/NYR	81	19	16	35	-3	64	4	0	2	110	17.3	15:34
2019-20	NYR	70	18	41	59	+21	48	3	0	3	154	11.7	19:35
2020-21	NYR	56	14	35	49	+6	39	3	0	1	128	10.9	18:16
2021-22	NYR	74	21	33	54	+15	69	5	1	5	161	13.0	18:19
2022-23	ANA	82	15	26	41	-30	79	1	0	2	130	11.5	17:02
2023-24	ANA	79	11	30	41	-20	86	2	0	0	131	8.4	15:48
2024-25	ANA	82	10	31	41	-3	70	0	0	3	137	7.3	16:41
2025-26	ANA/CGY	52	8	13	21	-8	35	1	0	1	57	14.0	13:18
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	916	174	327	501	-21	646	29	2	25	1669	10.4	16:15

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

8 goals and 13 assists in 52 games — 21 points, minus-8, at 13:18 a night. His 916th career game.

The Finesse Game

The hands are still fine in tight and the shot selection is good: 49 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 20, and 8 went in on 57 shots.

That is a player who knows where to stand and no longer gets there often enough. 327 career assists against 174 goals says he was always a distributor, and 13 assists in 52 games is a long way under that.

The Physical Game

6-1, 192, and he takes the punishment in the slot without dishing much out. 35 penalty minutes.

The skating is the reason the ice time has fallen to 13 minutes. He was never quick and is now slow, and a centre who cannot get back is a centre who plays on the fourth line.

The Intangibles

The results were poor: 48.3 per cent of the expected goals, 40th percentile, and the goals 27-33 against in 616 minutes.

7 points in his last 10 with 4 goals, which is a genuine flourish and the kind of thing that gets a 33-year-old another contract.

5th overall in 2011, 501 points, and now a third-line centre on a bad team. That is a real career and it is close to over.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 616 minutes

Expected goals: 48.3%; 40th pct
Shot attempts: 50.5%; 64th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 27 for, 33 against. Expected: 25.3 and 27.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

15th

Numbers

40th

The numbers rank him 25 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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, 2025-26 · 52 games

Top speed: 21.3 mph; 16th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.44 a game
Distance: 2.24 miles a game
Hardest shot: 80.7 mph; 23rd 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 3 assists, 15 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with ANA · 359 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, 2025-26

The club: CGY took 47.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.3% — 1.3 above the club he did it on.
The role: 616 minutes at five-on-five — 25th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Frank Vatrano	56.6%	45.7%	36.3%
Victor Olofsson	39.3%	50.8%	56.9%
Olen Zellweger	50.1%	47.8%	51.2%

56.6% together, 45.7% for him apart and 36.3% for Vatrano 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

87 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.