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Ryan Stanton

#20 · Defence · Washington Capitals

Born Jul 20, 1989 in St. Albert, Alberta, CAN · 6'2", 205 lb · Shoots left

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 2015-16. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Brett Lernout MTL · 0 P in 1 GP Chad Ruhwedel BUF · 0 P in 1 GP Corey Potter NSH · 0 P in 1 GP James Wisniewski CAR · 0 P in 1 GP Jeff Schultz LAK · 0 P in 1 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.

0510152012-13: 0 points012-132013-14: 16 points1613-142014-15: 11 points1114-152015-16: 0 points015-16

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2012-13 CHI 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0.00
2013-14 VAN 64 1 15 16 5 32 65 97 0.25 $550K
2014-15 VAN 54 3 8 11 9 35 59 93 0.20 $550K
2015-16 WSH 1 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0.00 $575K
4 seasons Career 120 4 23 27 14 71 125 191 0.23

2015-16 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
1 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0.00 0.0 8:41

Contract

$575KCap hitends in 2016

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. It runs through 2015-16, so this is its last season.

Season Cap hit
2015-16 $575K

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2015-16 to 2015-16 $575K
2013-14 to 2014-15 $550K

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 2015-16 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.

2015-16 analytics

Rating

-0.6Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
-0.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.7Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence+0.0Even-strength defence-0.5Power play0.0Penalty kill0.0Penalties-0.2

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.

-4-202462012-132013-142014-152015-16Goals 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

42.1Corsi for %8 attempts for, 11 against
-3.8CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
28.9Expected goals for %0.5 expected for, 1.2 against
-9.1xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
35.7Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
33.3Goals for %1 for, 2 against
95.0PDO20.0% shooting + 75.0% saves
0Attempts 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

Defence pairGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Taylor Chorney · Ryan Stanton16:3635.323.81-2
Dmitry Orlov · Ryan Stanton11:21100.00.00-0
Matt Niskanen · Ryan Stanton10:44100.0100.00-0

The pairs 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 pairs that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Jan 19, 2016 @ CBJ W 6-3 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 08:41