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Evgeni Malkin

50 points at 38 in his nineteenth season, and 1,202 career penalty minutes.

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

2006-07	PIT	78	33	52	85	+2	80	16	0	6	242	13.6	19:10
2007-08	PIT	82	47	59	106	+16	78	17	0	5	272	17.3	21:19
2008-09	PIT	82	35	78	113	+17	80	14	2	4	290	12.1	22:31
2009-10	PIT	67	28	49	77	-6	100	13	2	7	268	10.4	20:51
2010-11	PIT	43	15	22	37	-4	18	5	0	3	182	8.2	19:49
2011-12	PIT	75	50	59	109	+18	70	12	0	9	339	14.8	21:01
2012-13	PIT	31	9	24	33	+5	36	4	0	3	99	9.1	19:42
2013-14	PIT	60	23	49	72	+10	62	7	0	3	191	12.0	20:04
2014-15	PIT	69	28	42	70	-2	60	9	0	4	212	13.2	18:58
2015-16	PIT	57	27	31	58	+1	65	11	0	6	162	16.7	19:22
2016-17	PIT	62	33	39	72	+18	77	11	0	6	191	17.3	18:37
2017-18	PIT	78	42	56	98	+16	87	14	0	7	239	17.6	18:59
2018-19	PIT	68	21	51	72	-25	89	9	0	5	187	11.2	18:48
2019-20	PIT	55	25	49	74	+7	58	7	0	5	171	14.6	19:31
2020-21	PIT	33	8	20	28	-4	24	4	0	0	72	11.1	17:44
2021-22	PIT	41	20	22	42	-10	24	9	0	5	129	15.5	18:20
2022-23	PIT	82	27	56	83	-12	82	11	0	3	240	11.3	18:35
2023-24	PIT	82	27	40	67	+5	70	6	0	2	199	13.6	18:35
2024-25	PIT	68	16	34	50	-24	42	4	0	3	125	12.8	17:47
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1213	514	832	1346	+28	1202	183	4	86	3810	13.5	19:33

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

16 goals and 34 assists in 68 games — 50 points at 17:47 a night, with 4 power-play goals and 42 penalty minutes. Minus-24.

48.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 26th percentile. His ice went 36-45 against an expectation of 39.46-42.65 — the goals for beat the chances and the goals against did not, by twelve.

The Finesse Game

125 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 48 per cent from inside 20, converting at 12.8 per cent. At 38 he still takes the puck to the middle of the ice, which is remarkable and is also why he gets hit as often as he does.

The hands and the vision are the last things to go and neither has. 34 assists in 68 games from a second line is real production, and the one-handed reach on a puck at full extension is a thing almost nobody else does.

The Physical Game

6-5 and 213 and he has always played angry. He protects the puck with his size, he goes through people rather than around them, and he answers everything.

42 penalty minutes in 68 games, and 1,202 in 1,213 career games. He retaliates, he has done it for nineteen years, and at 38 he is still taking the second penalty in the sequence.

The Intangibles

Second overall in 2004, and he left Russia for it in circumstances that took lawyers to resolve. 1,213 games, 1,346 points, 514 goals, three Stanley Cups, a Conn Smythe, a Hart and an Art Ross.

He is 39, in the last year of his contract, and has played his entire career with the man who was drafted first overall the year after him.

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

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.

sheltered· is started in the attacking end
66% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 97th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“At 38 he still takes the puck to the middle of the ice, which is remarkable and is also why he gets hit as often as he does.”
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“34 assists in 68 games from a second line is real production, and the one-handed reach on a puck at full extension is a thing almost nobody else does.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He protects the puck with his size, he goes through people rather than around them, and he answers everything.”
retaliatesa strength· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“**42 penalty minutes in 68 games, and 1,202 in 1,213 career games.** He retaliates, he has done it for nineteen years, and at 38 he is still taking the second penalty in the sequence.”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He protects the puck with his size, he goes through people rather than around them, and he answers everything.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 955 minutes

Expected goals: 48.1%; 36th pct
Shot attempts: 49.8%; 50th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 45 against. Expected: 39.5 and 42.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

93rd

Numbers

36th

The report ranks him 57 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 82 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 · 68 games

Top speed: 22.0 mph; 39th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.71 a game
Distance: 3.08 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.3 mph; 81st 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 · 955 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: PIT took 49.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.1% — 0.9 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 955 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Erik Karlsson	48.4%	47.8%	49.1%
Michael Bunting	46.8%	48.9%	55.8%
Kris Letang	45.7%	49.2%	46.9%

48.4% together, 47.8% for him apart and 49.1% for Karlsson 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

177 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.