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Taylor Raddysh
Chicago Blackhawks Right Wing
Twenty goals, thirteen of them from inside twenty feet, on a club that could not manufacture a chance.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | TBL/CHI | 74 | 11 | 11 | 22 | +1 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 104 | 10.6 | 12:20 |
| 2022-23 | CHI | 78 | 20 | 17 | 37 | -28 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 129 | 15.5 | 16:34 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 152 | 31 | 28 | 59 | -27 | 26 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 233 | 13.3 | 14:30 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
20 goals and 17 assists in 78 games — 37 points at 16:34 a night, minus-28, with 7 power-play goals on 129 shots at 15.50 per cent.
45.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,018 minutes, the 26th percentile, which was among the better shares on the club. His ice went 31-40 against an expectation of 37.07-43.9.
He is 25 and this was his first full NHL season.
The Finesse Game
129 attempts at a median of 20 feet, 51 per cent from inside twenty and 17 per cent from beyond forty. Thirteen goals on 64 shots from inside twenty at 20.3 per cent, six from the middle band, one on nineteen from beyond forty.
That is an excellent shot chart, and on this club it is nearly the only one. Chicago was last in the league in expected goals for at five-on-five — 2.274 a sixty — and the reason is that almost nobody got to the places Raddysh got to.
15.50 per cent will not repeat. His career rate is 13.30 per cent across 152 games, which is high and is a function of where he shoots. The goals were real; the rate was flattering.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 201 with 16 penalty minutes. He is not a physical player and does not pretend to be.
21.8 mph at the 25th percentile, 1.0 bursts a game at the 55th, 2.53 miles at the 45th. Nothing in the tracking is a strength, which makes the shot locations more interesting rather than less — he is getting to the slot without any measurable speed advantage.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick by Tampa Bay in 2016 who came to Chicago in the Brandon Hagel trade and got the ice time a rebuild hands out.
He is 25 with 31 career goals. On a club about to add a first overall pick, a right winger who scores from inside twenty feet is exactly the sort of player who benefits, and that is the most hopeful sentence in this chapter.
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
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.
- clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
4 of his 20 goals late or in overtime, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“he is getting to the slot without any measurable speed advantage”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 1,018 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.8%
- 26th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46%
- 23rd 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: 31 for, 40 against. Expected: 37.1 and 43.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 23 points above where the numbers do. 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 141 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 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
2022-23 · 1018 minutes at five-on-five
- Jonathan Toewsoff the roster46%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- CHI took 42.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.8% — 3.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,018 minutes at five-on-five — 59th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philipp Kurashev | 41.9% | 49.4% | 41.4% |
| Jonathan Toews | 40.5% | 50.4% | 34.2% |
| Tyler Johnson | 47.7% | 44.5% | 36.4% |
41.9% together, 49.4% for him apart and 41.4% for Kurashev apart. He was better away from Kurashev, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Kurashev.
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
180 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.