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Dmitri Voronkov

6-5, and the shortest average shot distance of any player in this edition.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2023-24	CBJ	75	18	16	34	-6	52	6	0	2	142	12.7	13:27
2024-25	CBJ	73	23	24	47	+17	55	8	0	1	154	14.9	16:47
2025-26	CBJ	63	17	15	32	-1	59	7	0	1	110	15.4	13:56
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	211	58	55	113	+10	166	21	0	4	406	14.3	14:45

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

17 goals and 15 assists in 63 games — 32 points, minus-1, at 13:56 a night with 7 power-play goals and 59 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the most extreme in this book. 68 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, with a median distance of 12. Nobody covered here shoots from closer — not Bertuzzi at 13, not Benson, not Zucker.

17 goals from 110 shots on goal is what happens when a 6-5 man decides to live in the crease. He tips, he screens, he collects rebounds, and he is strong enough that clearing him is a 2-man job.

There is no perimeter game and no need for one. 15 assists in 63 games.

The Physical Game

6-5 and 234 pounds, and the entire value proposition. 59 penalty minutes, most of them earned in the 2 square metres in front of the opposing goaltender.

The skating is the limit. He is slow, he cannot forecheck at pace, and it is why a player scoring at this rate gets under 14 minutes a night.

The Intangibles

54.3 per cent of the expected goals, 84th percentile, in 736 minutes.

He is 25, a fourth-round pick, and 58 goals into 211 career games — a 20-goal pace from a bottom-6 role.

He is also, on the evidence of the shot chart, the single most playoff-shaped forward in this edition. A tight series takes away open ice; it does not take away the front of the net, and this is a man who does all his scoring there.

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
74.8% of his attempts in the slot, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
63% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 91st 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 · 736 minutes

Expected goals: 54.3%; 84th pct
Shot attempts: 53.1%; 82nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 35 for, 26 against. Expected: 34.7 and 29.2.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

49th

Numbers

84th

The numbers rank him 35 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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 · 63 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 40th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.70 a game
Distance: 2.01 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.6 mph; 48th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 1 assists, 17 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 736 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: CBJ took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.3% — 2.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: 736 minutes at five-on-five — 33rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Kirill Marchenko	55.7%	52.4%	51.2%
Ivan Provorov	53.5%	54.8%	50.6%
Zach Werenski	57.1%	52.4%	54.5%

55.7% together, 52.4% for him apart and 51.2% for Marchenko apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

159 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 68% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.