Our Washington Capitals player report card series continues on. Today we grade the performance of Taylor Raddysh.
Raddysh is a versatile right winger who brought speed to the lineup and was useful in the bottom six. He also just turned 27 in February so he's part of the young core movement on the team.
He finished with seven goals and 20 assists for 27 points in 80 games. The 80 games played was a career high. In the playoffs he added an assist in seven games.
His advanced stats were also decent. He had a corsi for percentage of 51.44 percent, an expected goals for percentage of 54.11 percent and a 57.10 high danger chances for percentage per Natural Stat Trick.
Raddysh had one game winning goal, had a plus/minus of -7 and averaged 12:22 minutes of ice time per game.
Raddysh's speed was clocked at 22.92 miles per hour as his top sakting speed whcih put him at the 81 percentile per NHL Edge. He also had 134 speed bursts over 20 miles per hour and had 157.20 miles in skating distance.
Raddysh additionally had 93 shots on goal, a 7.5 percent shooting percentage and 40.2 percent offensive zone time.
His top shot speed is 88.02 miles per hour while he had an average speed of 53.73 miles per hour. He spent 40.6 percent of his time in the offensive zone, 17 percent in the neutral zone and 42.3 percent in the defensive zone.
Finally his skating speed was at 22.92 miles per hour while he had six bursts of over 22 miles per hour. He had 128 20-22 mile per hour bursts and 501 18-20 mile per hour bursts.
Grade B: Taylor Raddysh was a good offensive addition. He brought speed to the lineup and some depth scoring for the bottom six. Overall it was a good season from him.