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Daniil Miromanov
Calgary Flames Defense
Undrafted, six foot four, and the eighty-seventh percentile of chances in twenty-four games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | VGK | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0.0 | 9:47 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 14 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 9.1 | 17:02 |
| 2023-24 | VGK/CGY | 24 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 6.5 | 20:43 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 49 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 6.0 | 17:13 |
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
3 goals and 4 assists in 24 games — 7 points at 20:43 a night, minus-2, on 46 shots at 6.52 per cent, and 8 penalty minutes.
54.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 432 minutes, the 87th percentile — the best mark of any defenceman on this roster. His ice went 17-18 against an expectation of 20.20-16.68 — two goals of scoring missing and two conceded above expectation.
Twenty minutes a night in twenty-four games after arriving in the Noah Hanifin trade.
The Finesse Game
46 attempts at a median of 52 feet, with 73 per cent from beyond 40 and 11 per cent from inside 20, converting at 6.52 per cent — a good rate from the point.
4 assists. He moves the puck quickly and simply and he will carry it out when the pass is not there, and 14 points in 49 career games is not enough to say more.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 207. He defends the rush with reach and closes the gap early, and he does not punish anybody or clear his crease by force.
8 penalty minutes in 24 games. He does not retaliate and he is not an agitator.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Moscow by way of the Canadian junior leagues, and 49 NHL games at 27 after five seasons in the American league.
He arrived at the deadline in the trade that sent Noah Hanifin to Vegas. Twenty minutes a night at the eighty-seventh percentile of chances is a genuinely interesting twenty-four games, and on a blue line missing two of its top four there is a job available.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 432 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.8%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 56.4%
- 93rd 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: 17 for, 18 against. Expected: 20.2 and 16.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 41 points above where the report does. 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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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 · 374 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, 2023-24
- The club
- CGY took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.8% — 4.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 432 minutes at five-on-five — 14th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| MacKenzie Weegar | 52.1% | 61.7% | 49.8% |
| Mikael Backlund | 52.2% | 56.1% | 51.4% |
| Blake Coleman | 53.7% | 55.3% | 50.9% |
52.1% together, 61.7% for him apart and 49.8% for Weegar apart. He was better away from Weegar, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Weegar.
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
70 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 61 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 73% from beyond forty.