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Defence · #33

Ryan Johnson

Age
25
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Newport Beach, USA
Draft
2019, round 1, #31 (BUF)

Career · 2023–24 to 2025–26

Games
47
Goals
0
Points
7
TOI per game
13:48
xGF% (5v5)
50.7%
Goals above expected
−2.0

Season by season

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

2023–24BUF41077+313:52350.0%01.451.0%
2024–25BUF3000−217:4030.0%00.644.3%
2025–26BUF300009:000–00.056.6%
Total1 team47077+113:48380.0%02.050.7%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.51015202530354045
12m13m14m15m16m1015202530354045Game

Player card

How 2023–24 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

44th 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

3rd pair
  • Goals /600.003rd pct
  • Assists /600.6545th pct
  • ixG /600.1956th pct
  • Shots /603.5244th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)50.7%63rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)51.2%72nd pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.454th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3867th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game13:489th pct
  • PP time share1.2%29th pct
  • PK time share2.5%6th pct
  • Quality of competition23.6%12th 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.

−2.0 goals above expected

00.511.5210203040Game

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

−10−50+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 speed33.1 km/h17th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph18th pct
  • Hardest shot127.0 km/h13th pct
  • Distance skated6 km6th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.4%5th 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

33.1 km/h3rd pct

▲ +1.2 km/h since 2024–25

303234363823–2424–2525–262023–24: 34.4 km/h, 24th percentile (41 games)2024–25: 31.9 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 33.1 km/h, 3rd percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.270th pct

▲ +2.2 since 2024–25

012323–2424–2525–262023–24: 1.7, 57th percentile (41 games)2024–25: 0.0, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 2.2, 70th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.4 km90th pct

▼ −0.1 km since 2024–25

1313.51414.51523–2424–2525–262023–24: 14.2 km, 87th percentile (41 games)2024–25: 14.5 km, 93rd percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.4 km, 90th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

127.0 km/h0th pct

▲ +3.6 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016023–2424–2525–262023–24: 138.0 km/h, 9th percentile (41 games)2024–25: 123.4 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 127.0 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

38.4%6th pct

▼ −4.8 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%23–2424–2525–262023–24: 41.9%, 57th percentile (41 games)2024–25: 43.2%, 74th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 38.4%, 6th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)