Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Taylor Raddysh

New York Rangers Right Wing

27 points in 80 games in Washington, and a career plus-minus of minus-53 that says more about the clubs than the man.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22TBL/CHI74111122+11031110410.612:20
2022-23CHI78201737-281670112915.516:34
2023-24CHI735914-19221101204.215:53
2024-25WSH8072027-718001937.512:22
2025-26 so far
Career3054357100-536611234469.614:16

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

7 goals and 20 assists in 80 games for Washington — 27 points, minus-7, at 12:22 a night on 18 penalty minutes.

93 shots at 7.5 per cent. It is the second-best point total of his career and it came on a club that finished first in its conference, in a role he had not previously been given.

The Finesse Game

The passing has quietly become the better half. 20 assists on a third line is a real number and 57 assists against 43 goals over 305 career games is not the split anybody projected for a junior scorer.

The shot has gone. He scored 20 goals in Chicago three seasons ago and 12 in the two years since, on similar volume. 7 goals at 7.5 per cent is a poor conversion rate and it is now the third consecutive season of one.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 201 and he is a willing rather than a punishing forward. He will forecheck, he will take the body, and he does not finish checks in a way anybody remembers.

18 penalty minutes in 80 games says he is disciplined and it also says he is not engaged in the parts of the game that produce them. He is neither heavy nor soft and he plays a straight-line, positionally sound wing.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick, four seasons and four organisations, and 305 games at 27.

A career minus-53 was earned mostly in Chicago on very bad clubs and should not be read as a defensive verdict. He is a thirteenth forward who can play up when somebody is hurt, signed cheaply for exactly that, and the club needed three of him.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 906 minutes

Expected goals
52.9%
78th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
51.8%
72nd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 48 for, 33 against. Expected: 40.3 and 35.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
8th
Numbers
78th

The numbers rank him 70 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 496 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

2024-25 with WSH · 906 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, 2024-25

The club
WSH took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.9% — 2.1 above the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 906 minutes at five-on-five — 46th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Nic Dowd50.7%54.5%51.8%
Brandon Duhaime50.7%54.2%51.1%
Rasmus Sandin55.4%51.3%49.1%

50.7% together, 54.5% for him apart and 51.8% for Dowd apart. He was better away from Dowd, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Dowd.

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

136 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.