Ryan Suter
St. Louis Blues Defense
One thousand four hundred and forty-four games, more than anybody in this edition.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-06 | NSH | 71 | 1 | 15 | 16 | +7 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 1.2 | 17:21 |
| 2006-07 | NSH | 82 | 8 | 16 | 24 | +10 | 54 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 9.2 | 20:09 |
| 2007-08 | NSH | 76 | 7 | 24 | 31 | +3 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 138 | 5.1 | 20:35 |
| 2008-09 | NSH | 82 | 7 | 38 | 45 | -16 | 73 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 143 | 4.9 | 24:16 |
| 2009-10 | NSH | 82 | 4 | 33 | 37 | +4 | 48 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 125 | 3.2 | 23:59 |
| 2010-11 | NSH | 70 | 4 | 35 | 39 | +20 | 54 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 115 | 3.5 | 25:12 |
| 2011-12 | NSH | 79 | 7 | 39 | 46 | +15 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 134 | 5.2 | 26:30 |
| 2012-13 | MIN | 48 | 4 | 28 | 32 | +2 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 4.4 | 27:17 |
| 2013-14 | MIN | 82 | 8 | 35 | 43 | +15 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 5.3 | 29:25 |
| 2014-15 | MIN | 77 | 2 | 36 | 38 | +7 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 150 | 1.3 | 29:04 |
| 2015-16 | MIN | 82 | 8 | 43 | 51 | +10 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 188 | 4.3 | 28:36 |
| 2016-17 | MIN | 82 | 9 | 31 | 40 | +34 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 164 | 5.5 | 26:55 |
| 2017-18 | MIN | 78 | 6 | 45 | 51 | -1 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 149 | 4.0 | 26:47 |
| 2018-19 | MIN | 82 | 7 | 40 | 47 | -8 | 41 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 136 | 5.1 | 26:42 |
| 2019-20 | MIN | 69 | 8 | 40 | 48 | -6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 111 | 7.2 | 24:38 |
| 2020-21 | MIN | 56 | 3 | 16 | 19 | +9 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 3.5 | 22:11 |
| 2021-22 | DAL | 82 | 7 | 25 | 32 | +1 | 40 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 118 | 5.9 | 23:39 |
| 2022-23 | DAL | 82 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 92 | 3.3 | 20:23 |
| 2023-24 | DAL | 82 | 2 | 15 | 17 | +14 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 102 | 2.0 | 18:56 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1444 | 105 | 576 | 681 | +120 | 761 | 36 | 4 | 20 | 2363 | 4.4 | 24:21 |
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
82 games with Dallas, 2 goals and 15 assists for 17 points, 28 penalty minutes, 18:56 a night and plus-14, with 1 game-winner. He took 53.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,431 minutes, the 78th percentile, and his ice went 61-55 against an expectation of 61.11-53.21.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and two more conceded than they called for. The 53.5 per cent is the best chance share of any defenceman on this roster and it was earned in Dallas.
The Finesse Game
161 attempts at a median of 52 feet with 78 per cent of them from beyond forty and 1.9 per cent from inside twenty — one of the six most perimeter-bound charts in this edition — 101 of those on goal, converted at 2.0 per cent against a career 4.44 across 2,363 shots.
576 career assists in 1,444 games. The value was never the shot; it was nineteen seasons of a clean first pass and a man who is never out of position, and 681 career points from a defenceman who has scored 105 goals is the shape of that.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 201 and took 28 penalty minutes.
761 career penalty minutes in 1,444 games. He has never been physically imposing and does not need to be; he takes the ice away before the puck arrives and has done it at 24:21 a night across nineteen seasons.
The Intangibles
Seventh overall in 2003 by Nashville, nineteen seasons, and St. Louis will be his fourth organisation.
One thousand four hundred and forty-four games — more than anybody in this edition — and a career plus-120. He is 39 and played all 82 last season, which is the thirteenth time he has played 77 or more.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,431 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.5%
- 80th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52%
- 72nd 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: 61 for, 55 against. Expected: 61.1 and 53.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 23 points above where the report does. 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. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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
2023-24 with DAL · 1431 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, 2023-24
- The club
- DAL took 54.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.5% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,431 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miro Heiskanen | 54.3% | 52.9% | 60.1% |
| Jason Robertson | 55.2% | 52.8% | 59.6% |
| Matt Duchene | 51.8% | 54.2% | 52.3% |
54.3% together, 52.9% for him apart and 60.1% for Heiskanen apart. Heiskanen was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
161 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 58 feet. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 78% from beyond forty.