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Trevor van Riemsdyk
Washington Capitals Defense
Undrafted, 683 games, one goal last season, and a plus-20.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | CHI | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0.0 | 13:32 |
| 2015-16 | CHI | 82 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -5 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 85 | 3.5 | 19:59 |
| 2016-17 | CHI | 58 | 5 | 11 | 16 | +17 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 73 | 6.9 | 18:25 |
| 2017-18 | CAR | 79 | 3 | 13 | 16 | +9 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 111 | 2.7 | 17:03 |
| 2018-19 | CAR | 78 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 102 | 2.9 | 15:04 |
| 2019-20 | CAR | 49 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 1.7 | 14:52 |
| 2020-21 | WSH | 20 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 4.3 | 17:05 |
| 2021-22 | WSH | 72 | 1 | 16 | 17 | -3 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 1.3 | 17:28 |
| 2022-23 | WSH | 75 | 7 | 16 | 23 | +10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 7.2 | 19:04 |
| 2023-24 | WSH | 70 | 0 | 14 | 14 | -7 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 0.0 | 18:40 |
| 2024-25 | WSH | 82 | 1 | 20 | 21 | +20 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 1.3 | 17:40 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 683 | 25 | 122 | 147 | +29 | 211 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 800 | 3.1 | 17:33 |
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
1 goal and 20 assists in 82 games — 21 points at 17:40 a night, plus-20, on 80 shots, and 34 penalty minutes.
50.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 53rd percentile. His ice went 57-39 against an expectation of 48.87-48.14 — four goals better than expected for and level against.
The Finesse Game
80 attempts in 82 games at a median of 57 feet with 80 per cent from beyond 40 and 4 per cent from inside 20, and 1 goal. 25 goals in 683 career games. He does not shoot.
20 assists. The first pass is short, early and to the correct side, and under a heavy forecheck he goes off the wall rather than attempting anything clever. There is nothing else and there does not need to be.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 210 and honest. He defends the rush with reach, he blocks shots, and he clears his crease without hurting anybody.
34 penalty minutes in 82 games is a low rate. He kills penalties and he can be trusted with a lead, which has been the whole job for eleven seasons.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of New Hampshire, signed by Chicago in 2014, and 683 games across four organisations.
He is 34. He won a Stanley Cup as a rookie in Chicago and has been a second- or third-pairing right shot ever since, which for an undrafted defenceman is a career almost nobody manages.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**Undrafted out of New Hampshire**, signed by Chicago in 2014, and **683 games** across four organisations.”
“He defends the rush with reach, he blocks shots, and he clears his crease without hurting anybody.”
“He defends the rush with reach, he blocks shots, and he clears his crease without hurting anybody.”
“**He kills penalties and he can be trusted with a lead**, which has been the whole job for eleven seasons.”
“**He kills penalties and he can be trusted with a lead**, which has been the whole job for eleven seasons.”
“**The first pass is short, early and to the correct side**, and under a heavy forecheck he goes off the wall rather than attempting anything clever.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,262 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.4%
- 57th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.3%
- 46th 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: 57 for, 39 against. Expected: 48.9 and 48.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 27 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 637 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, 2024-25 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 82nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.24 a game
- Distance
- 2.34 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.9 mph
- 28th 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 89.7
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1262 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 50.4% — 0.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,262 minutes at five-on-five — 89th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jakob Chychrun | 50.2% | 50.6% | 47.3% |
| Connor McMichael | 52.5% | 49.5% | 52.9% |
| Dylan Strome | 45.2% | 52.4% | 47.3% |
50.2% together, 50.6% for him apart and 47.3% for Chychrun apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
132 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 6 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 80% from beyond forty.