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14

Taylor Raddysh

New York Rangers Right Wing

53 per cent of his shots from 16 feet, and the 7th percentile.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22TBL/CHI74111122+11031110410.612:20
2022-23CHI78201737-281670112915.516:34
2023-24CHI735914-19221101204.215:53
2024-25WSH8072027-718001937.512:22
2025-26NYR6891019+5120105317.011:51
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—3735267119-4878113349910.413:50

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

9 goals and 10 assists in 68 games — 19 points, plus-5, at 11:51 a night with 12 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is excellent and the volume is not. 88 unblocked attempts with 53 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 16, and 9 goals.

52 goals in 373 career games. He knows exactly where to stand and takes fewer shots than almost any forward on the roster.

10 assists in 68 games is the ceiling.

The Physical Game

6-2, 201, and he forechecks without being punishing. 12 penalty minutes in 68 games is low for the role.

The Intangibles

44.2 per cent of the expected goals, 11th percentile, and 46.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 22nd, with the goals 25-20 in his favour across 737 minutes.

That is the worst forward mark on a club that finished 29th at generating offence, and the plus-5 beside it is not describing anything real.

6 points in his last 10. He is 28, a second-round pick, and a fourth-line winger whose shot chart is better than his results by a distance nobody has been able to close.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 737 minutes

Expected goals
44.2%
12th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
46.5%
22nd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 25 for, 20 against. Expected: 22.5 and 28.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
15th
Numbers
12th

The two rank him within 3 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 — 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, 2025-26 · 68 games

Top speed
23.0 mph
83rd pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.28 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.87 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
86.2 mph
57th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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

6

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 5 assists, 12 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 737 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
NYR took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.2% — 3.8 below the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 737 minutes at five-on-five — 33rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Noah Laba36.1%48.7%49.4%
Braden Schneider43.3%44.6%44.1%
Vladislav Gavrikov40.1%46.2%51.0%

36.1% together, 48.7% for him apart and 49.4% for Laba apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

88 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.