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Dmitri Voronkov

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.

50.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 59th 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.

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
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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
68.5% of his attempts in the slot, 96th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“his entire offensive game is being in the blue paint when the puck arrives and getting a stick on it”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“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.”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“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.”
retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“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.”
transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control
“There is no rush game.”
defensively-responsiblehe lacks it· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“The skating is the limitation — he is slow, and against a club that transitions quickly he is a liability in his own end.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 997 minutes

Expected goals: 50.7%; 60th pct
Shot attempts: 51.5%; 70th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 60 for, 37 against. Expected: 46.5 and 45.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

72nd

Numbers

60th

The two rank him within 12 points of one another. 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.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 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, 2024-25 · 73 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 59th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.71 a game
Distance: 2.45 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.5 mph; 41st 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 997 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, 2024-25

The club: CBJ took 48.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.7% — 2.4 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	52.8%	44.8%	53.7%
Zach Werenski	53.6%	48.0%	53.4%
Adam Fantilli	47.5%	53.5%	43.2%

52.8% together, 44.8% for him apart and 53.7% 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.