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Defence · #12 · Rookie

Ryan Ufko

Age
23
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
79 kg
Born
Smithtown, USA
Draft
2021, round 4, #115 (NSH)

Career · 2024–25 to 2026–27

Games
20
Goals
2
Points
11
TOI per game
14:03
xGF% (5v5)
40.8%
Goals above expected
+1.0

Season by season

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

2024–25NSH1000015:370–00.0–
2025–26NSH182911013:531118.2%21.041.0%
2026–27NSH1000−115:2710.0%00.036.0%
Total1 team202911−114:031216.7%21.040.8%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.6101214161820
13m13m14m14m15m15m101214161820Game

Player card

How 2024–25 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

19th 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.4393rd pct
  • Assists /601.9299th pct
  • ixG /600.2162nd pct
  • Shots /602.5611th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)40.8%3rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.3%4th pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.341st pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)3.061st pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game14:039th pct
  • PP time share35.6%82nd pct
  • PK time share1.6%4th pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%17th 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.

+1.0 goals above expected

00.511.525101520Game

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 speed31.8 km/h19th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot124.5 km/h30th pct
  • Distance skated3 km3rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.8%72nd 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

33.3 km/h5th pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2024–25

32333435363724–2525–262024–25: 32.6 km/h, 1st percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 33.3 km/h, 5th percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.443rd pct

▼ −2.4 since 2024–25

01234524–2525–262024–25: 3.8, 94th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 1.4, 43rd percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

13.2 km19th pct

▼ −1.1 km since 2024–25

1313.51414.524–2525–262024–25: 14.2 km, 83rd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 13.2 km, 19th percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

141.6 km/h20th pct

▲ +56.6 km/h since 2024–25

608010012014016018024–2525–262024–25: 85.1 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 141.6 km/h, 20th percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

41.0%41st pct

▲ +0.3 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%24–2525–262024–25: 40.7%, 35th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 41.0%, 41st percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)