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Brandon Tanev
Utah Mammoth Left Wing
Undrafted, and 16 penalty minutes in 79 games from one of the more relentless forecheckers in the league.
| 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 | SEA/WPG | 79 | 10 | 12 | 22 | -12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 10.1 | 13:13 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 552 | 84 | 96 | 180 | +42 | 249 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 740 | 11.3 | 13:41 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
10 goals and 12 assists in 79 games across Seattle and Winnipeg — 22 points at 13:13 a night, minus-12, on 99 shots and 16 penalty minutes.
Sixteen penalty minutes in 79 games from a player who forechecks like this is genuinely unusual and it is the reason he has been a first-unit penalty killer on four clubs.
The Finesse Game
99 attempts and 10 goals at a 10.1 per cent conversion. The shot is functional and the volume is a fourth-line number.
12 assists in 79 games. 180 points in 552 NHL games is the whole offensive record; he is on the ice to chase pucks down and to be first in.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 189 and among the most relentless forecheckers in the league. He arrives first, he finishes every check, and he does it at a speed that makes a defenceman’s decision worse than it should be.
16 penalty minutes in 79 games is remarkable for a player who plays this way. He is clean, he does not retaliate, and he is trusted a man short because of it.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, and he went to Providence College and reached the NHL at 24 — 552 games and 180 points across four organisations, with 249 penalty minutes across all of it.
He is 33 and Utah signed him in the summer. On a roster that is 30th on the penalty kill and light up front, he is two problems addressed at once.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“**Undrafted**, and he went to Providence College and reached the NHL at 24 — **552 games and 180 points** across four organisations, with 249 penalty minutes across all of it.”
“**6-0 and 189 and among the most relentless forecheckers in the league.** He arrives first, he finishes every check, and he does it at a speed that makes a defenceman's decision worse than it should be.”
“He arrives first, he finishes every check, and he does it at a speed that makes a defenceman's decision worse than it should be.”
“**16 penalty minutes in 79 games** is remarkable for a player who plays this way. He is clean, he does not retaliate, and he is trusted a man short because of it.”
“He is clean, he does not retaliate, and he is trusted a man short because of it.”
“He is clean, he does not retaliate, and he is trusted a man short because of it.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 845 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.8%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45%
- 12th 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: 24 for, 37 against. Expected: 29.4 and 34.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 40 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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, 2024-25 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 88th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.10 a game
- Distance
- 2.17 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.4 mph
- 90th 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 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with SEA · 690 minutes at five-on-five
- Tye Kartye44%
- Mitchell Stephensoff the roster21%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- WPG took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.8% — 6.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 845 minutes at five-on-five — 40th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tye Kartye | 46.2% | 45.6% | 55.5% |
| Yanni Gourde | 53.6% | 41.7% | 50.2% |
| Adam Larsson | 46.2% | 45.6% | 46.8% |
46.2% together, 45.6% for him apart and 55.5% for Kartye apart. Kartye was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
152 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.