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Artemi Panarin
Los Angeles Kings Left Wing #10
An undrafted Russian who became one of the great playmakers of his era, still producing at a rate that makes the defensive arguments academic.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | CHI | 80 | 30 | 47 | 77 | +8 | 32 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 187 | 16.0 | 18:31 |
| 2016-17 | CHI | 82 | 31 | 43 | 74 | +18 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 211 | 14.7 | 19:28 |
| 2017-18 | CBJ | 81 | 27 | 55 | 82 | +23 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 228 | 11.8 | 20:08 |
| 2018-19 | CBJ | 79 | 28 | 59 | 87 | +14 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 191 | 14.7 | 19:51 |
| 2019-20 | NYR | 69 | 32 | 63 | 95 | +36 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 209 | 15.3 | 20:36 |
| 2020-21 | NYR | 42 | 17 | 41 | 58 | +14 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 106 | 16.0 | 19:39 |
| 2021-22 | NYR | 75 | 22 | 74 | 96 | +21 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 177 | 12.4 | 19:13 |
| 2022-23 | NYR | 82 | 29 | 63 | 92 | +4 | 36 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 204 | 14.2 | 19:36 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 82 | 49 | 71 | 120 | +18 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 303 | 16.2 | 20:07 |
| 2024-25 | NYR | 80 | 37 | 52 | 89 | -9 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 237 | 15.6 | 19:41 |
| 2025-26 | NYR/LAK | 78 | 28 | 56 | 84 | -7 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 224 | 12.5 | 20:51 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 830 | 330 | 624 | 954 | +140 | 242 | 79 | 0 | 51 | 2277 | 14.5 | 19:47 |
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
28 goals and 84 points in 78 games, on nearly 21 minutes a night — the most ice time of any forward on the roster. The minus-7 is the number people will point at, and it is worth reading carefully: he plays against everyone, starts a great many shifts in his own end, and does not defend hard enough to make up for it.
The Finesse Game
The hands are the best on this team and among the best anywhere. He works from the left wall, holds the puck under pressure longer than a player his size should be able to, and finds passes that do not appear to exist until the puck is already through the lane. The give-and-go off the wall is his signature and it is close to unstoppable when he has a linemate who moves without the puck.
The shot is underrated because the passing is so conspicuous. He scores from distance, off the rush, and he is genuinely dangerous shooting from the off wing on the power play.
He is not fast so much as elusive: quick feet in a phone box, excellent edges, and a habit of changing speed at exactly the moment a defenceman commits.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 176 pounds, and it has never mattered much because he does not spend time in places where it would. He avoids traffic, does not forecheck with any conviction, and can be separated from the puck along the wall by a defenceman who gets there first. He is durable, which at his size and age is its own achievement.
The Intangibles
The criticism follows him from New York and it is not unfounded: the defensive detail is casual, and his playoff record is thinner than a player of this quality should have. He has had series where he was the best player on the ice and series where he disappeared for a week.
He is 34 and still the most talented player on his team. How much of that is left, and whether it shows up in April, is the whole question of the next 2 seasons.
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
35.9% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
16:18 a game at five-on-five, 98th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
63% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,271 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.8%
- 76th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.4%
- 88th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 69 for, 53 against. Expected: 55.9 and 49.9.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 10 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
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 — 79 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 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 33rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.73 a game
- Distance
- 3.31 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.5 mph
- 81st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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
10
points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 7 assists, 25 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with NYR · 853 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
- LAK took 51.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.8% — 0.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,271 minutes at five-on-five — 87th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mika Zibanejad | 53.2% | 52.6% | 48.2% |
| Alexis Lafrenière | 54.0% | 52.2% | 53.0% |
| Vladislav Gavrikov | 54.2% | 52.3% | 48.0% |
53.2% together, 52.6% for him apart and 48.2% for Zibanejad apart. Zibanejad was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Zibanejad 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
365 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 30 of them goals. His median goal came from 28 feet. 16% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 36% from beyond forty.