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Defence · #94

Ryan Ellis

Age
35
Shoots
Right
Height
178 cm
Weight
82 kg
Born
Hamilton, CAN
Draft
2009, round 1, #11 (NSH)

Career · 2011–12 to 2021–22

Games
566
Goals
76
Points
275
TOI per game
20:52
xGF% (5v5)
53.1%
Goals above expected
+20.1

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2011–12NSH323811+514:50348.8%41.647.3%
2012–13NSH32246−216:23484.2%22.451.3%
2013–14NSH8062127+916:041234.9%65.154.0%
2014–15NSH5891827+818:591187.6%66.254.5%
2015–16NSH79102232+1320:541526.6%77.357.1%
2016–17NSH71162238+1723:5714011.4%117.749.7%
2017–18NSH4492332+2623:211108.2%55.556.1%
2018–19NSH8273441+2124:011494.7%59.151.5%
2019–20NSH4983038+1623:301147.0%97.356.6%
2020–21NSH3551318+123:46756.7%43.550.1%
2021–22PHI4145+222:48616.7%20.242.5%
Total2 teams56676199275+11620:521,0697.1%6155.953.1%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.51100200300400500
10m15m20m25m100200300400500Game

Player card

How 2011–12 to 2021–22 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

98th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

1st pair
  • Goals /600.3995th pct
  • Assists /601.0190th pct
  • ixG /600.2888th pct
  • Shots /605.4384th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)53.1%90th pct
  • CF% (5v5)52.3%87th pct
  • Relative xGF%+2.891st pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.1486th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game20:5283rd pct
  • PP time share39.4%84th pct
  • PK time share32.8%62nd pct
  • Quality of competition24.5%74th pct

Percentiles among defencemen with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Finishing

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+20.1 goals above expected

020406080100200300400500Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−200+20+40+60

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed32.9 km/h15th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph213th pct
  • Hardest shot152.8 km/h69th pct
  • Distance skated19 km12th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.1%71st pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian defencemanMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

32.9 km/h3rd pct

2021–22 only

32333435363721–222021–22: 32.9 km/h, 3rd percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.346th pct

2021–22 only

0.511.522.5321–222021–22: 1.3, 46th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

12.8 km7th pct

2021–22 only

12.51313.51414.521–222021–22: 12.8 km, 7th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

152.8 km/h59th pct

2021–22 only

14014515015516021–222021–22: 152.8 km/h, 59th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

43.1%71st pct

2021–22 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–222021–22: 43.1%, 71st percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)