No CHL blueliner has hit the century mark since, and he’s the only one to do it in the past 18 years.So, then, can we trust 2019-20’s early returns as evidence of an Ellis breakout? He's your one-stop shop for deep-dive player interviews, predictions, statistics, fantasy player rankings, player safety and hair tips. 25 games) in power-play minutes per game since his first full season:As a member of The Hockey News family, we first want to wish you, your family and friends the very best of health during this COVID-19 virus pandemic.

Become an exclusive member for as little as $2.50/month, which includes a magazine subscription plus exclusive access to premium content in the All-Access section“He’s so calm that he almost looks bored out there.”Matt Larkin is a senior writer at The Hockey News and has been part of the team since 2011. Through the first eight seasons of his NHL career, he hadn’t quite realized it, even though he’d developed into a far better all-around defenseman than expected. Well, Ellis is a right-handed shooter, which means he spent his first several seasons as a Predator stuck behind Mr. Shea Weber and his booming right-handed shot.

By the end of his final major junior season with the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires, he’d won consecutive Memorial Cups as a key member of the Taylor-Hall-led powerhouses. Less than three minutes into the 2020 NHL Winter Classic, the Dallas Stars’ Corey Perry got ejected for an elbow to the head of the Predators Ryan Ellis. Is a career year in the cards?
Why, then, hasn’t he churned out 50-point seasons in his sleep? Since 2013-14, his first full season as an NHLer, his ranks in points per 60 minutes among defensemen who played 1,000 minutes or more at 5-on-5 are:Ellis is finally the undisputed top right-shot defenseman on his own team, and he is seeing a bit more power-play time now.

We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Enter Ryan Ellis of NASCAR fame, who races in both the Camping World Truck and Sprint Cup Series.

Subban.Which is to say we, like so many prognosticators at the time, loved Ellis’ potential. Most recently in the NHL with Nashville Predators. For the first time in his career, Ellis was indisputably the top right-shot defenseman on his own team.

Through seasons 1 to 8, he averaged 36.7 points per 82 games. Please view the full post for updates on The Hockey News and upcoming magazines“He always has the puck, and nobody is able to get it away from him.”So we always knew the offensive ceiling was tantalizingly high for Ellis. Ellis is second on the team in ice time at over 23 minutes a night while his 0.72 points per game average is the second-highest of his career. Complete player biography and stats. WhatsApp. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) Nashville Predators defenceman Ryan Ellis sustained an upper … Then, Weber’s trade to Montreal returned another star right-shot offensive blueliner, Mr. P.K. DENVER, CO - APRIL 22: Ryan Ellis #4 of the Nashville Predators fires a goal against the Colorado Avalanche in Game Six of the Western Conference First Round during the 2018 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Pepsi Center on April 22, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. He was a magical power-play quarterback, a gold-medallist with Canada at the world juniors as an 18-year-old. News, analysis, opinion, scores, and stats, from the NHL and hockey leagues around the world.But was that Ellis’ fault? Ellis had become a crucial member of a Predators team that went to the 2017 Stanley Cup final but, aside from his injury-shortened 2017-18 campaign, never flashed the ceiling of a top-tier offensive defenseman.Ellis was too good of a puck-mover not to earn power-play time, but he never got bellcow minutes with the extra man. Twitter. It set him up for a long-awaited breakout season at age 28. 2,953 Followers, 624 Following, 726 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Ryan Ellis (@ryanellisracing) But it still felt like he was leaving some meat on the bone offensively given his tremendous mobility, point shot and puck-moving acumen. We might see his first 50-point season, but don’t bet on 60-plus.Ellis’ ranks among NHL defensemen (min. Operating on a regular pairing with Roman Josi, Ellis has emerged as one of the better two-way blueliners in hockey, a modernized version of a good defender in the 2019 landscape, where speed and positioning trump brute strength. During Ellis’ NHL career, the Predators have consistently deployed too many outstanding defensemen to leave any one of them out on the power play for the full two minutes.So far this season: Supernova Ellis has seemingly arrived. However, some help could be on the horizon as Adam Vingan of The Athletic reports (Twitter link) that defenseman Ryan Ellis skated today for the first time since sustaining an upper-body injury back on January 1st at the Winter Classic.

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