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Danila Yurov
Minnesota Wild Right Wing #22
A first-round Russian who spent his rookie season learning the league and finished it looking like he belonged.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | MIN | 73 | 12 | 15 | 27 | -7 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 80 | 15.0 | 13:18 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 73 | 12 | 15 | 27 | -7 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 80 | 15.0 | 13:18 |
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
12 goals and 27 points in 73 games on 13 minutes a night — a solid rookie line, and it came without power-play time worth mentioning. He played 36 percent of his 5-on-5 minutes on a third line that changed shape all year.
The Finesse Game
The skill is genuine. He handles the puck well at speed, makes plays off the wall rather than dumping it, and has a quick enough release to punish a goaltender who does not respect him yet. There were stretches last season where he looked like the most dangerous player on his line.
What he does not yet have is consistency of impact. 80 shots in 73 games is a low volume for a player with his hands, and a lot of shifts pass without him touching the game.
He came over from the KHL as a 22-year-old rather than a teenager, which usually means a shorter adjustment. That appears to have been true.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 178, and he needs weight. He is not shy about going to the middle of the ice, but he loses puck battles he will win in 3 years, and defencemen move him off the wall too easily.
The Intangibles
The 24th pick in 2022, developed at home rather than rushed, and delivered to a club that needs exactly this — a young scorer on an entry-level deal while the top of the roster gets expensive.
The projection is a middle-6 scorer with a chance at more. On a team that just lost 2 veteran wingers, he is going to get the opportunity to prove which.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 909 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.6%
- 60th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.5%
- 22nd 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: 38 for, 42 against. Expected: 36.3 and 35.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 13 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 — 76 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 · 73 games
- Top speed
- 23.2 mph
- 90th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.34 a game
- Distance
- 2.14 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.2 mph
- 79th 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
5
points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 1 assists, 20 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 909 minutes at five-on-five
- Vladimir Tarasenkooff the roster42%
- Yakov Trenin38%
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
- MIN took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.6% — 0.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 909 minutes at five-on-five — 49th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Tarasenko | 50.2% | 50.9% | 47.7% |
| Yakov Trenin | 47.8% | 52.2% | 49.4% |
| Brock Faber | 55.1% | 47.7% | 51.5% |
50.2% together, 50.9% for him apart and 47.7% for Tarasenko 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
128 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 55% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.