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Defence · #6 · Rookie

Ryan Merkley

Age
26
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Oakville, CAN
Draft
2018, round 1, #21 (SJS)

2021–22

Games
39
Goals
1
Points
6
TOI per game
15:23
xGF% (5v5)
41.9%
Goals above expected
+0.1

Season

The regular-season line, by team for traded players.

2021–22SJS39156−1015:23362.8%20.941.9%

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)
00.10.20.3101520253035
15m15m16m16m17m17m101520253035Game

Player card

How this season compares with everyone else at the position, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

1st 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.1018th pct
  • Assists /600.5023rd pct
  • ixG /600.094th pct
  • Shots /603.6030th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)41.9%4th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.5%34th pct
  • Relative xGF%−5.66th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.9710th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game15:2317th pct
  • PP time share34.2%77th pct
  • PK time share0.9%2nd pct
  • Quality of competition22.6%5th 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.

+0.1 goals above expected

00.20.40.60.815101520253035Game

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

−50+5+10+15

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 speed38.6 km/h100th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1753rd pct
  • Hardest shot132.3 km/h13th pct
  • Distance skated138 km41st pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.6%39th 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

38.6 km/h100th pct

2021–22 only

323436384021–222021–22: 38.6 km/h, 100th percentile (39 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.758th pct

2021–22 only

0.511.522.5321–222021–22: 1.7, 58th percentile (39 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.8 km58th pct

2021–22 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–222021–22: 13.8 km, 58th percentile (39 games)

Hardest shot

132.3 km/h2nd pct

2021–22 only

12013014015016021–222021–22: 132.3 km/h, 2nd percentile (39 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.6%38th pct

2021–22 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–222021–22: 40.6%, 38th percentile (39 games)