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Evgenii Dadonov

Seventeen point nine per cent conversion at thirty-five, on sixty-seven shots and thirteen minutes a night.

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

2009-10	FLA	4	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	13:14
2010-11	FLA	36	8	9	17	0	14	1	0	0	60	13.3	14:15
2011-12	FLA	15	2	1	3	-4	2	0	0	0	21	9.5	10:03
2017-18	FLA	74	28	37	65	+10	8	6	0	6	188	14.9	18:42
2018-19	FLA	82	28	42	70	-6	8	8	0	4	195	14.4	18:22
2019-20	FLA	69	25	22	47	-7	10	11	0	2	167	15.0	17:06
2020-21	OTT	55	13	7	20	-9	4	0	0	3	89	14.6	15:35
2021-22	VGK	78	20	23	43	+4	18	5	0	4	177	11.3	15:49
2022-23	MTL/DAL	73	7	26	33	-8	18	0	0	0	110	6.4	14:43
2023-24	DAL	51	12	11	23	-6	8	1	0	3	67	17.9	13:11
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	537	143	178	321	-27	90	32	0	22	1078	13.3	16:04

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

Fifty-one games, 12 goals and 11 assists with 1 on the power play, 13:11 a night and minus-6. He converted 17.91 per cent of 67 shots against a career 13.27 across 1,078.

He took 52.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 621 minutes, the 70th percentile, and his ice went 25-31 against an expectation of 25.19-22.96. Twelve goals on 67 shots at 35 is a conversion rate nobody sustains, and 23 points in 51 games is honest fourth-line production either way.

The Finesse Game

He shoots from a median of 24 feet with 46 per cent of his attempts from inside 20. One hundred and forty-three goals in 537 games at 13.27 per cent is a genuine finishing rate for a winger who has never played a first line in this league.

One hundred and seventy-eight career assists and 32 career power-play goals. The hands are good and the passing out of the corner is quick.

The Physical Game

He is 5-11 and 188 and plays no physical game at all. Eight penalty minutes in 51 games is one of the lower rates on the roster and there is nothing in it.

He does not win the wall and he does not kill penalties. The whole value is a shot from inside twenty-five feet.

The Intangibles

A third-round pick in 2007 out of Chelyabinsk who went home for four years, came back at 28, and has played 537 games and scored 321 points across five clubs since.

He is 35 and on the fourth line of a hundred-point club. Twelve goals in fifty-one games is exactly what that is worth.

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.

disciplined· stays out of the box
0.16 penalty minutes a game over 51, 9th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“He does not win the wall and he does not kill penalties.”
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He shoots from a median of 24 feet with 46 per cent of his attempts from inside 20.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 621 minutes

Expected goals: 52.3%; 70th pct
Shot attempts: 51.7%; 70th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 25 for, 31 against. Expected: 25.2 and 23.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

8th

Numbers

70th

The numbers rank him 62 points above where the report does. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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, 2023-24 · 51 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 60th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.92 a game
Distance: 2.33 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.7 mph; 37th 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

2023-24 · 621 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: DAL took 54.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.3% — 2.3 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 621 minutes at five-on-five — 27th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Wyatt Johnston	52.7%	51.7%	59.8%
Jamie Benn	52.4%	52.2%	57.2%
Thomas Harley	56.6%	50.0%	54.7%

52.7% together, 51.7% for him apart and 59.8% for Johnston apart. Johnston was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

113 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.