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Dmitri Voronkov
Columbus Blue Jackets Left Wing
Six foot five and 234 pounds, eighteen goals as a rookie, and sixty-four per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 75 | 18 | 16 | 34 | -6 | 52 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 142 | 12.7 | 13:27 |
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
18 goals and 16 assists in 75 games — 34 points at 13:27 a night, minus-6, with 6 power-play goals and 2 game-winners on 142 shots, converting at 12.68 per cent, and 52 penalty minutes. His first NHL season, at 23.
49.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 838 minutes, the 47th percentile — the best mark of any forward on this roster who was here. His ice went 40-37 against an expectation of 37.62-38.80.
The Finesse Game
142 attempts at a median of 13 feet, with 64 per cent from inside 20 and 10 per cent from beyond 40 — the most net-front shot profile on this club by a distance — converting at 12.68 per cent.
He does not shoot from anywhere except the paint, and eighteen goals in under fourteen minutes a night from that profile is a real return for a rookie.
16 assists. He does not create and the puck does not stay on his stick — the offence is standing in the right place and being impossible to move out of it.
The Physical Game
6-5 and 234, and he cannot be moved off the front of the net. He is the largest forward on this roster and he plays like it: he establishes position in the blue paint and stays, and a defenceman who wants him gone has to take a penalty.
52 penalty minutes in 75 games as a rookie. He wins pucks on the wall and he does not go looking for anybody after the whistle.
The Intangibles
A hundred and fourteenth overall in 2019 — a fourth-round pick — out of Angarsk, and an NHL rookie at 23 after four seasons in Russia.
Eighteen goals and six power-play goals from a fourth-round pick in a first season is the second-best piece of drafting on this roster, and on a club that has spent a decade collecting top-ten picks, the two forwards who work best were taken 49th and 114th.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 838 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.2%
- 47th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.2%
- 47th 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: 40 for, 37 against. Expected: 37.6 and 38.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 22 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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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 · 838 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
- CBJ took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.2% — 3.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 838 minutes at five-on-five — 42nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirill Marchenko | 49.7% | 48.6% | 40.5% |
| Zach Werenski | 50.7% | 48.3% | 46.4% |
| Yegor Chinakhov | 51.8% | 47.9% | 46.2% |
49.7% together, 48.6% for him apart and 40.5% for Marchenko apart. Marchenko was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Marchenko 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
195 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 64% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 10% from beyond forty.