Ryker Evans
Seattle Kraken Defense #41
52 goals for against 44, and the 13th percentile in shot attempts.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | SEA | 36 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -5 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 2.3 | 19:11 |
| 2024-25 | SEA | 73 | 5 | 20 | 25 | -12 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 8.5 | 19:29 |
| 2025-26 | SEA | 67 | 8 | 9 | 17 | +5 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 17.4 | 17:48 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 176 | 14 | 37 | 51 | -12 | 90 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 149 | 9.4 | 18:47 |
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 9 assists in 67 games — 17 points, plus-5, at 17:48 a night with 40 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
A mobile puck-mover who is still learning what to do with it. 72 unblocked attempts from a median of 49 feet, 75 per cent from beyond 40, and 8 goals — an unusually high conversion for a point shot, and almost certainly not a repeatable one.
9 assists in 67 games is thin for a defenceman playing 18 minutes. 51 points in 176 career games.
The Physical Game
6 foot even, 195, and average. 40 penalty minutes in 67 games is a fair rate.
He is not a punishing defender and does not need to be on a pair that is sheltered relative to Larsson’s; the skating covers the gaps well enough.
The Intangibles
48.6 per cent of the expected goals, 42nd percentile, against only 45.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 13th, across 1,075 minutes.
The goals came out 50 for and 42 against — the only positive margin of any Seattle defenceman, and it sits on chances of 40.5 to 42.8. Some of that is goaltending and some of it is 8 goals from 72 shots.
3 points in his last 10. He is 24, a 35th overall pick, and the third-best defenceman on this roster already. The gap between his shot-attempt share and his chance share says he is on the ice for fewer shots but better ones, which is the more forgivable of the 2 problems.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,075 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.6%
- 43rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.4%
- 15th 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: 50 for, 42 against. Expected: 40.5 and 42.8.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 10 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
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 — 69 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 · 67 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 92nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.63 a game
- Distance
- 2.46 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.7 mph
- 40th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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
3
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 2 assists, 10 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1075 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
- SEA took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — 2.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,075 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamieson Oleksiak | 49.6% | 47.6% | 44.3% |
| Shane Wright | 54.5% | 46.4% | 48.0% |
| Berkly Catton | 51.4% | 47.6% | 47.4% |
49.6% together, 47.6% for him apart and 44.3% for Oleksiak apart. Oleksiak was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Oleksiak 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
72 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 59 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.