Arseny Gritsyuk

95th percentile in shot attempts as a rookie, and 25 goals for against 44.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI
2025-26	NJD	66	13	18	31	-3	26	2	0	0	149	8.7	15:10
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	66	13	18	31	-3	26	2	0	0	149	8.7	15:10

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

13 goals and 18 assists in 66 games — 31 points, minus-3, at 15:10 a night. His first NHL season, at 24, after 5 years in Russia.

The Finesse Game

Skilled and quick, and he arrived finished rather than raw — which is what the extra years abroad buy. He handles the puck at speed and looks for the seam pass rather than the safe one.

The shooting is the questionable half: 209 unblocked attempts from a median of 34 feet, with 36 per cent from beyond 40 and only 22 per cent inside 20. 13 goals out of that is a fair return and the location needs to come in.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 195, and he does not seek contact. 26 penalty minutes. He is not winning wall battles and the game depends on getting to open ice.

The Intangibles

58.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 97th percentile, and 56 per cent of the expected goals, 77th, across 923 minutes.

And the goals went 39 for and 36 against — a 19-goal hole on a rookie who was tilting the ice comfortably. Even by New Jersey’s standards that is severe.

8 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals. He is 25, a 129th overall pick, and the underlying numbers say he is already a legitimate NHL forward. The minus-3 is the kindest figure any Devil got.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
36.4% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
55.9% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 48.9% for his club in the minutes he sat: +7.0, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 923 minutes

Expected goals: 55.9%; 92nd pct
Shot attempts: 58.3%; 97th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 39 for, 36 against. Expected: 41.3 and 32.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

55th

Numbers

92nd

The numbers rank him 37 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 66 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 71st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.44 a game
Distance: 2.47 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.6 mph; 86th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 4 assists, 26 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 923 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: NJD took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.9% — 5.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 923 minutes at five-on-five — 51st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Cody Glass	55.3%	56.3%	44.6%
Jonas Siegenthaler	59.6%	54.0%	46.3%
Simon Nemec	57.5%	55.2%	45.9%

55.3% together, 56.3% for him apart and 44.6% for Glass apart. Glass was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Glass than for him.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

209 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 22% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 36% from beyond forty.