Let’s go, with the 2025-26 season in the rearview, let’s reflect on the season of Ottawa Senators middle-six extraordinaire forward Ridly Greig. We will discuss some of the highs and lows, and ultimately concentrate on the continued improvement of Greig through his career trajectory. Let’s get sensational.
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The Ottawa Senators Forward Ridly Greig 2025-26 NHL Season Review
Ridly Greig is the ultimate competitor. You know that’s the reputation of a Lethbridge, Alberta native, home of the Hurricanes. Ridly played junior farther east, however, for the Brandon Wheat Kings in the WHL. He is beloved across the country when you look at it that way. But wherever he plays, he is known to do it for the team.
That is why one comparable to Greig might be Sam Bennett. They both combine speed, skill, power, and two-way play in a style that is very difficult to have to put up with for opponents. Does he have that dog in him?
Obviously Bennett is his own player, but so is Ridly Greig. During this past season, Sam Bennett’s age-29 season, he put up career numbers. With his 58 points in 76 games and his 32 assists, both scoring stats were career highs. His 26 goals were good for his second-best season. Furthermore, his 18:30 of ice time was also a career high. Once those type of players become trusted in all situations, you start to see their ice time maximize. Not unlike the story for Washington Capitals power forward Tom Wilson. For Greig, you see it in him being relied upon in a top penalty killing role.
Greig’s Statistical Analysis
Greig is a good example of someone with a reasonably high ceiling. He plays with such speed and power, that he can be difficult to stop once he gets going.
In 2025-26, Greig found a great deal of success in a top-six forward line combination role. He played with Brady Tkachuk and Dylan Cozens for 320 minutes this season. In fact, it was the only line combination that he played with for more than 115 minutes. When filtering on lines with the seven most minutes together, at 115, that Greig line for Ottawa had the second best expected-goal percentage at 65.6%. They were truly a dominate line this past season.
For Greig’s individual scoring stats, he scored 13 goals for the third consecutive season. He was very consistent with last year by the numbers.
- Year – GP – G – A – Pts – S% – TOI – FO%
- 24-25 – 78 – 13 – 21 – 34 – 10.9% – 17:05 – 54.7%
- 25-26 – 77 – 13 – 22 – 35 – 10.2% – 16:42 – 51.2%
Greig did have somewhat a slow start in 2025-26. Through 27 games, he had two goals and seven assists for nine points. Oddly enough similar to 2024-25, when again through 27 games, his totals were two goals and five assists, for just seven points.
Some of that inconsistent scoring is similar to his teammate Shane Pinto. But these players, like many on the Sens, are still getting better. The group of Dylan Cozens, Tim Stutzle, Tyler Kleven, and others will all be better into 2026-27 and beyond. They need to stick to the process and believe that they can get over the hump. No one is going to do it for them.
Meanwhile, if Greig can continue to improve his game, he can have a prominent role in the NHL for years to come. If he settles down on a second-line wing, along with getting plenty of power play chances, maybe 70 points is in the cards one day.
The Yearend Thoughts
Now if we shift our review of Greig to the end of season media availability. In it, they were keeping it loose, as they discussed his teammate Drake Batherson and his plans to attend a PWHL game together. Drake’s sister Mae Batherson and Ridly’s sister Dara Greig, in the upcoming Walter Cup Playoffs are rivals in the PWHL series between the Minnesota Frost and the Montreal Victoire.
Greig described it as, “We are excited, it will be fun to watch for us.”
That is good for leaving on a positive note. He did talk about other aspects of the hockey season. In the end for the Sens, they wanted some sort of Stanley Cup Playoff run. In reality, they had pushed their resources too hard since January. “We never played that game that we knew we had.”
Greig never had a big performance himself in the playoffs, with only one assist through four games. However, he was involved in other ways. It was a very physical series for him especially. One fallout is a phone hearing for a controversial play on Carolina’s Sean Walker.
But that is no bearing on the success Greig and the club had as a whole in 2025-26. This was a big season and making the playoffs was some level of justification. Now, they can look toward the future, and deeper playoff runs in the years to come.
Drake Batherson’s sister Mae (Minnesota) is playing Ridly Greig’s sister Dara (Montreal) in the #PWHL playoffs:
“Me and Ridly were next to each other last night when we found out they were playing each other. We’re already talking about carpooling, going down for a few for sure.… pic.twitter.com/vsMBn5kL64
— Claire Hanna (@clahanna) April 27, 2026
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