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Ryan Callahan

#24 · Right wing · Tampa Bay Lightning

Born Mar 21, 1985 in Rochester, New York, USA · 5'10", 187 lb · Shoots right · Drafted 127th overall in 2004 by NYR (round 4)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2016-17. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Marcus Sorensen SJS · 4 P in 19 GP Anton Lander EDM · 4 P in 22 GP Chris Terry MTL · 4 P in 14 GP Derek Dorsett VAN · 4 P in 14 GP Iiro Pakarinen EDM · 4 P in 14 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

020402006-07: 6 points606-072007-08: 13 points1307-082008-09: 40 points4008-092009-10: 37 points3709-102010-11: 48 points4810-112011-12: 54 points5411-122012-13: 31 points3112-132013-14: 36 points3613-142014-15: 54 points5414-152015-16: 28 points2815-162016-17: 4 points416-172017-18: 18 points1817-182018-19: 17 points1718-19

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2006-07 NYR 14 4 2 6 5 9 40 32 0.43
2007-08 NYR 52 8 5 13 7 31 92 139 0.25
2008-09 NYR 81 22 18 40 7 45 237 265 0.49
2009-10 NYR 77 19 18 37 -12 48 204 285 0.48 $2.3M
2010-11 NYR 60 23 25 48 -7 46 179 224 0.80 $2.3M
2011-12 NYR 76 29 25 54 -8 61 235 271 0.71 $4.275M
2012-13 NYR 45 16 15 31 9 12 144 154 0.69 $4.275M
2013-14 NYR 45 11 14 25 -3 16 109 132 0.56 $4.275M
2013-14 TBL 20 6 5 11 4 8 54 57 0.55
2014-15 TBL 77 24 30 54 9 41 191 184 0.70 $5.8M
2015-16 TBL 73 10 18 28 -5 45 156 164 0.38 $5.8M
2016-17 TBL 18 2 2 4 -4 23 22 48 0.22 $5.8M
2017-18 TBL 67 5 13 18 -4 29 104 138 0.27 $5.8M
2018-19 TBL 52 7 10 17 7 14 76 89 0.33 $5.8M
13 seasons Career 757 186 200 386 5 428 1843 2182 0.51

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2006-07 NYR 10 2 1 3 1 6 26 25 0.30
2007-08 NYR 10 2 2 4 3 10 25 31 0.40
2008-09 NYR 7 2 0 2 -1 4 19 25 0.29
2011-12 NYR 20 6 4 10 2 12 53 82 0.50
2012-13 NYR 12 2 3 5 2 6 40 64 0.42
2013-14 TBL 4 0 0 0 -2 0 5 16 0.00
2014-15 TBL 25 2 6 8 3 14 56 83 0.32
2015-16 TBL 16 2 2 4 -3 29 29 63 0.25
2017-18 TBL 15 2 1 3 1 4 15 57 0.20
2018-19 TBL 2 0 0 0 0 4 4 9 0.00
10 seasons Playoffs 121 20 19 39 6 89 272 455 0.32

2016-17 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
18 2 2 4 -4 23 22 48 0.22 9.1 14:09

Contract

$5.8MCap hit2016-17
$1.45MCap dollars per point4 points in 18 games

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. He rated at or below a spare-part player, so there is no cost per goal to show.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. When it ends is not known.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2018-19 to 2019-20 $5.8M
2016-17 to 2017-18 $5.8M
2014-15 to 2019-20 $5.8M
2012-13 to 2013-14 $4.275M
2011-12 to 2013-14 $4.275M
2009-10 to 2010-11 $2.3M

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2016-17 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2016-17 analytics

Rating

-0.7Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
-0.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-1.5Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.7Even-strength defence-1.0Power play-0.1Penalty kill-0.2Penalties+0.5

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. He has played fewer than 20 games, too few to be ranked. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

-50510152010-112012-132014-152016-172018-19Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

45.8Corsi for %179 attempts for, 212 against
-3.9CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
37.8Expected goals for %6.3 expected for, 10.3 against
-10.3xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
45.5Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
35.7Goals for %5 for, 9 against
97.5PDO4.9% shooting + 92.6% saves
39Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Valtteri Filppula · Ryan Callahan · Alex Killorn540:5540.620.20-0
Valtteri Filppula · Ryan Callahan · Brayden Point527:4651.745.32-1
Valtteri Filppula · Ryan Callahan · Jonathan Drouin426:1341.344.91-2
Ryan Callahan · JT Brown · Cedric Paquette315:3642.446.10-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Chances and finishing

Expected goals adds up how likely each of his shots was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. All situations, leaving out shots at an empty net. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

2Goalsnot counting empty-netters
1.9Expected goalsfrom 33 unblocked attempts
+0.1Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.45 expected goals per 60 minutes9th
Shot quality 5.8% chance per attempt6th
Finishing +0.1 goals above expected56thOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 421 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

00.511.52Goals 2Expected 1.9

His goals and his expected goals as the season went on. When the goals line pulls away above, he is scoring more than his chances were worth; below, less.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took this season, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Jan 7, 2017 @ PHI L 2-4 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 14:40
Jan 5, 2017 vs NSH L 1-6 0 0 0 -2 2 0 2 11:31
Jan 3, 2017 vs WPG L 4-6 0 0 0 -2 0 2 5 11:20
Nov 27, 2016 @ BOS L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 15:46
Nov 25, 2016 vs CBJ L 3-5 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 16:54
Nov 23, 2016 vs PHI W 4-2 1 0 1 1 4 2 2 14:07
Nov 21, 2016 @ NSH L 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:51
Nov 19, 2016 @ PHI W 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 19:11
Nov 17, 2016 @ BUF W 4-1 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 16:55
Nov 15, 2016 @ DET W 4-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:47
Nov 14, 2016 @ NYI W 4-0 1 0 1 1 0 2 3 11:01
Nov 12, 2016 vs SJS L 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:32
Nov 10, 2016 vs NYI W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 12:39
Nov 7, 2016 @ FLA L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 14:24
Nov 5, 2016 vs NJD W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 15:00
Nov 3, 2016 vs BOS L 3-4 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 15:50
Nov 1, 2016 @ NYI W 6-1 0 1 1 2 17 3 1 08:57
Oct 30, 2016 @ NYR L 1-6 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 13:09