Raddysh ranks in the 98th percentile among defensemen in hardest shot (100.13 mph on Nov. 28) this season and excelled in that category last season (100.34 mph; 97th percentile). In terms of average shot speed this season, Raddysh is also among the best at his position (75.57 mph; 98th percentile).<\/p>\n
2. Shots by location<\/p>\n
Raddysh has been a standout in all three major shot locations relative to other defenseman this season. He has particularly dominated from the perimeter, leading the entire NHL in long-range goals (six) and also ranking in the 93rd percentile or higher among defensemen in midrange goals, midrange shots on goal and long-range shots on goal:<\/p>\n
Midrange goals: 4 (94th percentile)
\nMidrange shots on goal: 20 (93rd percentile)
\nLong-range goals: 6 (99th percentile)
\nLong-range shots on goal: 44 (94th percentile)<\/p>\n
Raddysh has scored eight of his 12 goals on slap shots this season, which is tied with Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> of the Colorado Avalanche for the most in the entire NHL. Raddysh had scored four goals on slap shots over his prior four NHL seasons combined.<\/p>\n 3. Power-play turnaround<\/p>\n From the start of the season to the game when Hedman sustained his injury (Dec. 9), the Lightning were tied for 24th in the NHL in power play percentage (16.3). Over Hedman\u2019s absence, Raddysh has helped the Lightning drastically improve its power-play conversion percentage (26.8; seventh). Raddysh has scored four power-play goals over that span, tied with Brock Nelson<\/a> of the Avalanche and Sam Reinhart<\/a> of the Florida Panthers for the NHL lead.<\/p>\n Raddysh is playing on the top defense pair and running the first power-play unit with Kucherov, Brayden Point<\/a>, Jake Guentzel<\/a> and Oliver Bjorkstrand<\/a> in Hedman\u2019s absence. Raddysh ranks in the 94th percentile among defensemen in power-play skating distance (16.84 miles) and 88th percentile in offensive zone time percentage at all strengths (44.8) this season, presenting plenty of extended opportunities in promising scoring situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raddysh ranks in the 98th percentile among defensemen in hardest shot (100.13 mph on Nov. 28) this season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-391524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}