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Dmitri Voronkov
Columbus Blue Jackets Left Wing
23 goals from 6-5 and 234 pounds, with 62 per cent of his shots taken from inside 20 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 | CBJ | 73 | 23 | 24 | 47 | +17 | 55 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 154 | 14.9 | 16:47 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 148 | 41 | 40 | 81 | +11 | 107 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 296 | 13.9 | 15:06 |
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
23 goals and 24 assists in 73 games for 47 points, plus-17, on 16:47 a night with 8 on the power play.
49 per cent at five-on-five, the 41st percentile. A median shot distance of 14 feet with 62 per cent of his attempts inside 20 — the most extreme interior profile on the roster, and the reason 14.9 per cent shooting is entirely believable.
The Finesse Game
Better hands than a 6-5 net-front forward is usually credited with, and a genuinely quick release in tight. He does not create anything at distance and does not need to; his entire offensive game is being in the blue paint when the puck arrives and getting a stick on it.
24 assists is a fair total for a man whose passing is mostly a matter of moving it out of a scrum. There is no rush game.
The Physical Game
6-5 and 234, and this is the case for him. He is very difficult to move from the front of the net, he wins pucks below the goal line by weight, and he takes an enormous amount of punishment without retaliating much.
55 penalty minutes over 73 games is a moderate rate for a man who lives where he lives. The skating is the limitation — he is slow, and against a club that transitions quickly he is a liability in his own end.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick who spent five seasons in Russia and arrived at 23 already physically finished, which is why the transition was immediate.
At 25 he is what he will be: a 20-goal net-front power forward and a power-play fixture. That is a genuinely useful and increasingly rare thing, and the club has it cheaply.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 997 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49%
- 41st pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.1%
- 65th 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, 40 against. Expected: 43.1 and 44.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 30 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 357 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 997 minutes at five-on-five
- Sean Monahan31%
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
- CBJ took 48.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.0% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 997 minutes at five-on-five — 60th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirill Marchenko | 50.2% | 45.7% | 51.0% |
| Adam Fantilli | 45.0% | 52.6% | 43.9% |
| Zach Werenski | 51.9% | 46.3% | 52.2% |
50.2% together, 45.7% for him apart and 51.0% for Marchenko apart. He was worse away from Marchenko, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Marchenko did.
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
219 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 62% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.