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Left wing · #27

Nick Ritchie

Anaheim Ducks Boston Bruins Toronto Maple Leafs Arizona Coyotes Calgary Flames(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
107 kg
Born
Orangeville, CAN
Draft
2014, round 1, #10 (ANA)

Career · 2015–16 to 2022–23

Games
481
Goals
84
Points
186
TOI per game
13:38
xGF% (5v5)
49.7%
Goals above expected
−16.9

Season by season

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

2015–16ANA33224−211:46553.6%03.752.3%
2016–17ANA77141428+412:591499.4%215.154.9%
2017–18ANA76101727+313:111228.2%316.051.1%
2018–19ANA6092231+615:00969.4%912.347.6%
2019–20ANA4181119+314:237011.4%310.750.6%
2019–20BOS7112−212:43812.5%00.435.0%
2019–20All teams4891221+114:097811.5%311.148.9%
2020–21BOS56151126−715:2212112.4%915.352.2%
2021–22TOR33279−612:00523.8%46.951.0%
2021–22ARI2410414−713:414124.4%05.843.0%
2021–22All teams57121123−1312:429312.9%412.747.6%
2022–23ARI5891221−1513:368710.3%1010.341.2%
2022–23CGY16415−613:233312.1%04.358.0%
2022–23All teams74131326−2113:3312010.8%1014.645.0%
Total5 teams48184102186−2913:3883410.1%40100.949.7%

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)
00.20.40.60.81100200300400
10m12m14m16m18m100200300400Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2015–16 to 2022–23 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

52nd percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

3rd line
  • Goals /600.7765th pct
  • Assists /600.9356th pct
  • ixG /600.9281st pct
  • Goals above expected−16.95th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.7%59th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.2%65th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.363rd pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.952nd pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game13:3854th pct
  • PP time share30.5%66th pct
  • Offensive zone starts67.6%86th pct
  • Quality of competition23.7%44th pct

Percentiles among forwards 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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Patrick MaroonANA/EDM/NJD/STL/TBL0.80
  2. Brett RitchieDAL/BOS/CGY0.78
  3. Scott HartnellCBJ/NSH0.76
  4. Matt BeleskeyBOS0.75
  5. Anthony AngelloPIT0.73
  6. Carl GrundstromLAK0.73

Faceoffs

How often Ritchie wins the draw over 2015–16 to 2022–23, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1529+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

26.5%

18–50 · below the 1529 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

28.0%

Opponents won 51.6% of their draws; an average centre would have won 48.4% against them.

Wins above average

−15

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

1.2

68 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

0%4 · –24%34 · +0.114%7 · −21.771%7 · +0.20%4 · –0%1 · –44%9 · +4.00%2 · –Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone22.0% 9–32
  • Neutral zone31.3% 5–11
  • Defensive zone36.4% 4–7

By strength

  • Even strength27.8% 15–39
  • Power play20.0% 2–8
  • Shorthanded25.0% 1–3

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: 0 after a win, −2 after a loss. Each win was worth -1.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2015–16333.3%33.8%
2016–17850.0%50.6%
2017–181735.3%36.3%
2018–191233.3%34.8%
2019–20812.5%15.6%
2020–2140.0%0.7%
2021–2240.0%0.9%
2022–231216.7%19.7%

Finishing

Model-based

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.

−16.9 goals above expected

020406080100100200300400Game

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

−80−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+100

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 speed34.5 km/h22nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph5049th pct
  • Hardest shot136.8 km/h36th pct
  • Distance skated249 km61st pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.4%66th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards 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 forwardMiddle 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

34.5 km/h9th pct

▲ +0.6 km/h since 2021–22

333435363721–2222–232021–22: 34.0 km/h, 4th percentile (57 games)2022–23: 34.5 km/h, 9th percentile (74 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.024th pct

▲ +0.3 since 2021–22

24681021–2222–232021–22: 2.7, 17th percentile (57 games)2022–23: 3.0, 24th percentile (74 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.9 km22nd pct

▼ −0.3 km since 2021–22

14.51515.51616.521–2222–232021–22: 15.2 km, 29th percentile (57 games)2022–23: 14.9 km, 22nd percentile (74 games)

Hardest shot

136.8 km/h21st pct

▼ −16.8 km/h since 2021–22

13014015016021–2222–232021–22: 153.6 km/h, 89th percentile (57 games)2022–23: 136.8 km/h, 21st percentile (74 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.4%67th pct

▲ +1.3 points since 2021–22

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–232021–22: 42.1%, 56th percentile (57 games)2022–23: 43.4%, 67th percentile (74 games)