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Brandon Tanev
Seattle Kraken Left Wing
Undrafted, with 10 career shorthanded goals against 2 on the power play.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | WPG | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 12:03 |
| 2016-17 | WPG | 51 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -6 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 54 | 3.7 | 10:41 |
| 2017-18 | WPG | 61 | 8 | 10 | 18 | +13 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 79 | 10.1 | 12:40 |
| 2018-19 | WPG | 80 | 14 | 15 | 29 | +9 | 41 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 127 | 11.0 | 14:07 |
| 2019-20 | PIT | 68 | 11 | 14 | 25 | -1 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 95 | 11.6 | 14:45 |
| 2020-21 | PIT | 32 | 7 | 9 | 16 | +12 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 16.3 | 14:26 |
| 2021-22 | SEA | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | +4 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 51 | 17.6 | 14:34 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 82 | 16 | 19 | 35 | +21 | 44 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 115 | 13.9 | 14:13 |
| 2023-24 | SEA | 66 | 7 | 9 | 16 | +2 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 9.6 | 14:35 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 473 | 74 | 84 | 158 | +54 | 233 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 641 | 11.5 | 13:46 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
66 games, 7 goals and 9 assists for 16 points, none on the power play, 51 penalty minutes, 14:35 a night and plus-2. He took 46.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 777 minutes, the 27th percentile, and his ice went 23-24 against an expectation of 25.55-29.89.
Three goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and six goals of goaltending above them. The 46.1 per cent is the lowest chance share of any forward who played the season in Seattle, which is what the checking assignment costs.
The Finesse Game
107 attempts at a median of 23 feet with 47 per cent of them from inside twenty, 69 of those on goal, converted at 9.6 per cent against a career 11.54 across 641 shots.
Seventy-four career goals in 473 games, and 2 of them on the power play. Everything he scores comes from driving the net at speed and arriving before the puck is dead, and nobody has ever confused him for a finisher.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 189 and took 51 penalty minutes.
233 career penalty minutes in 473 games. He forechecks flat out and without much regard for what happens when he arrives, hits everything that moves at a weight that does not really support it, and has built a nine-season career out of exactly that.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, nine seasons, three organisations, and 158 points in 473 games.
Ten career shorthanded goals against two on the power play, and a career plus-54. He was undrafted, reached the league at 24, and has been somebody’s best penalty killer for most of a decade.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 777 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.1%
- 27th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.8%
- 26th 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: 23 for, 24 against. Expected: 25.6 and 29.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 49 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 777 minutes at five-on-five
- Tye Kartye29%
- Yanni Gourde27%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- SEA took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.1% — 4.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 777 minutes at five-on-five — 37th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Wennberg | 47.3% | 45.3% | 49.6% |
| Adam Larsson | 45.1% | 46.8% | 49.2% |
| Jamie Oleksiak | 44.3% | 47.1% | 51.0% |
47.3% together, 45.3% for him apart and 49.6% for Wennberg apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
107 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.