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Ryan Strome
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Center
41 points, 70 penalty minutes, and a second-line centre job on a club that has three better options coming.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 864 | 166 | 314 | 480 | -13 | 611 | 28 | 2 | 24 | 1612 | 10.3 | 16:26 |
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
10 goals and 31 assists in 82 games for 41 points, minus-3, on 16:41 a night.
47.6 per cent at five-on-five, the 28th percentile. 137 shots and 10 goals at 7.3 per cent, which is well below his career rate and the reason a 41-point season looks worse than it played.
The Finesse Game
A distributor. 31 assists is where the value is, and he is genuinely good at finding a shooter from below the goal line — Vatrano and Terry both benefited from it.
The shot has never been much and it is now less. 42 per cent of his attempts come from inside 20 feet, so the locations are fine and the finish is not; 10 goals in 82 games from those distances is a man whose hands have slowed.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 192, and he plays a scratchy, irritating game rather than a heavy one. He is willing on the wall and around the net without being able to win either by force.
70 penalty minutes is a high total for a player of this size and it is not all useful. A middle-six centre on a club with the 28th-ranked penalty kill taking 70 minutes is an expense the team cannot afford.
The Intangibles
Twelve seasons, four clubs, and a career of being a good second-line centre for one year and a bad one the next. Nobody has ever been sure which they were buying.
At 32 on a team with Carlsson, McTavish and Gauthier all under 23, he is a placeholder being paid like a solution. The correct outcome for both sides is a trade.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,058 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.6%
- 28th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.1%
- 43rd 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, 44 against. Expected: 46.1 and 50.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1058 minutes at five-on-five
- Troy Terry77%
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
- ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 3.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,058 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Vatrano | 49.8% | 36.6% | 42.4% |
| Troy Terry | 50.3% | 36.6% | 42.8% |
| Radko Gudas | 47.9% | 47.5% | 45.3% |
49.8% together, 36.6% for him apart and 42.4% 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
202 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.