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Ryan Strome
Anaheim Ducks Center
Fifth overall in 2011, seven hundred and eighty-two games, and a second-line centre wherever he goes.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 782 | 156 | 283 | 439 | -10 | 541 | 28 | 2 | 21 | 1475 | 10.6 | 16:24 |
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
11 goals and 30 assists in 79 games — 41 points at 15:48 a night, minus-20, with 2 power-play goals on 131 shots, converting at 8.4 per cent, and 86 penalty minutes.
44.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,013 minutes, the 15th percentile. His ice went 38-54 against an expectation of 36.73-46.73 — seven goals of scoring missing and four fewer conceded than the chances predicted.
The Finesse Game
131 attempts at a median of 25 feet, with 41 per cent from inside 20 and 22 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 8.4 per cent. The finishing has always been the weaker half.
Thirty assists is the job. He holds the puck below the goal line and waits rather than forcing the seam, and 283 assists against 156 goals in 782 games is the shape of the whole career. He had 59 points beside Artemi Panarin in New York and 41 here, which is the honest measure of what he is: a good second-line centre whose output is decided by the winger.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 192 and light for a centre taking these draws. He competes on the wall without winning many of them against size.
86 penalty minutes in 79 games and 541 in 782 for his career is a high rate for a player with no physical edge to speak of, and most of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step. On a club spending 6:08 a game shorthanded, that is the part that costs.
The Intangibles
Fifth overall in 2011 by the Islanders, and 782 games and 439 points across four clubs. He has never been the player a fifth-overall pick is supposed to be and he has had a long, useful NHL career anyway.
He is 31, second on this club in assists, and one of three men over thirty being asked to hold the middle while three twenty-year-olds learn it.
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.
- durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**Thirty assists is the job.** He holds the puck below the goal line and waits rather than forcing the seam, and 283 assists against 156 goals in 782 games is the shape of the whole career.”
“6-1 and 192 and light for a centre taking these draws.”
“He competes on the wall without winning many of them against size.”
“**86 penalty minutes in 79 games and 541 in 782 for his career** is a high rate for a player with no physical edge to speak of, and most of it is **the stick foul that follows losing a step.**”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,013 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44%
- 16th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.9%
- 17th 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: 38 for, 54 against. Expected: 36.7 and 46.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 15 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 — 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, 2023-24 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 21.4 mph
- 19th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.52 a game
- Distance
- 2.54 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.7 mph
- 37th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 · 1013 minutes at five-on-five
- Troy Terry15%
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
- ANA took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.0% — 1.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,013 minutes at five-on-five — 60th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Vatrano | 43.9% | 44.3% | 43.8% |
| Mason McTavish | 44.2% | 43.9% | 46.1% |
| Cam Fowler | 41.9% | 45.5% | 45.8% |
43.9% together, 44.3% for him apart and 43.8% for Vatrano 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
160 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.