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Ryan Strome

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.

47.1 per cent at five-on-five, the 27th 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 29th-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.

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
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“he is genuinely good at finding a shooter from below the goal line”
agitatora strength· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“he plays a scratchy, irritating game rather than a heavy one”
punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“6-1 and 192, and he plays a scratchy, irritating game rather than a heavy one.”
wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“He is willing on the wall and around the net without being able to win either by force.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,058 minutes

Expected goals: 47.1%; 27th pct
Shot attempts: 49.1%; 44th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 47 for, 47 against. Expected: 46.5 and 52.1.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

36th

Numbers

27th

The two rank him within 9 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 — 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 82 games

Top speed: 21.2 mph; 12th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.37 a game
Distance: 2.60 miles a game
Hardest shot: 91.7 mph; 86th 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

2024-25 · 1058 minutes at five-on-five

Frank Vatrano80%
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 47.1% — 2.5 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	49.3%	36.3%	45.0%
Troy Terry	49.9%	35.8%	44.9%
Radko Gudas	48.1%	46.5%	45.4%

49.3% together, 36.3% for him apart and 45.0% 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.