Evgenii Dadonov

20 goals at 35 on a 16.3 per cent rate, and a scorer signed for a power play that is already 1st.

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	DAL	80	20	20	40	+1	10	5	0	2	123	16.3	13:32
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	617	163	198	361	-26	100	37	0	24	1201	13.6	15:44

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

20 goals and 20 assists in 80 games for 40 points, plus-1, on 13:32 a night with Dallas, including 5 on the power play.

123 shots and 20 goals at 16.3 per cent in under fourteen minutes a night. 40 points from that role is a genuinely good return at 35.

The Finesse Game

A finisher with a quick release and good hands in tight, and a career of scoring more than his ice time suggests he should. He gets to the interior and shoots quickly, and the puck skills at moderate speed are still fine.

20 assists is a fair total. There is no rush game and he does not carry the puck into the zone; he arrives at it.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 188, and he does not play a physical game at all. He avoids the wall, does not forecheck, and does not win pucks.

10 penalty minutes over 80 games. He is nowhere near anything, and the durability has been excellent — four consecutive seasons above 75 games.

The Intangibles

A fifth-round pick, six organisations, three seasons in Russia in the middle of the career, and a decade of quietly scoring 20 goals.

At 36 the projection is 15 goals in a bottom-six role. On a club with the best power play in the league, a cheap net-front and second-unit finisher is a sensible thing to add.

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
ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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
0.13 penalty minutes a game over 80, 6th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“On a club with the best power play in the league, a cheap net-front and second-unit finisher is a sensible thing to add.”
transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control
“There is no rush game and he does not carry the puck into the zone; he arrives at it.”
playmakerpresent and ordinary· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“20 assists is a fair total.”
punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“5-11 and 188, and he does not play a physical game at all.”
forechecks-aggressivelyhe lacks it· first man in, and on the puck
“He avoids the wall, does not forecheck, and does not win pucks.”
wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“He avoids the wall, does not forecheck, and does not win pucks.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 946 minutes

Expected goals: 49.9%; 52nd pct
Shot attempts: 47.6%; 30th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 47 for, 42 against. Expected: 40.9 and 40.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

25th

Numbers

52nd

The numbers rank him 27 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 637 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 80 games

Top speed: 22.5 mph; 63rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.86 a game
Distance: 2.35 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.5 mph; 49th 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 with DAL · 946 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: DAL took 50.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.9% — 0.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 946 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Wyatt Johnston	46.2%	52.7%	52.2%
Jamie Benn	43.2%	54.2%	51.7%
Esa Lindell	50.8%	49.4%	50.5%

46.2% together, 52.7% for him apart and 52.2% for Johnston apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

186 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.