Evgeny Kuznetsov

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

79 games, 24 goals and 54 assists at 20:17 a night, plus-7, forty-four penalty minutes, 208 shots, eight power-play goals, three short-handed and four game-winners. Twenty-sixth overall in 2010 by Washington, nine seasons, 599 games, 496 points.

The Finesse Game

Fifty-four assists against twenty-four goals, and 343 of 496 career points are assists, off 7.79 shots per 60 at the 60th percentile.

Seventy-eight points is his second-highest total and the highest since 2018.

2.27 even-strength points per 60 is the 74th percentile and thirty-five per cent of his points came on the power play, off 3:44 a night at the 98th percentile.

Fifty per cent of his attempts came from inside twenty feet at a 25-foot median.

49.6 per cent of the expected goals is the 50th percentile and 49.8 per cent of the attempts the 48th — out of 74.9 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 3rd-highest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts. Five hundred and one attacking-zone shifts against 168.

Level shares out of the third-softest chair in the league is the single hardest fact in this file to argue past.

His ice went 58-45 against an expectation of 47.19-47.96 — eleven goals better than the model in front and three fewer against.

He and Alex Ovechkin played 1,695 attempts together and barely a quarter of that apart — 447 attempts for Ovechkin without him, 315 for him without Ovechkin. Both men read around 43.5 per cent in those fragments, which is too small to mean anything except that the club never separated them.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 207 pounds, and forty-four penalty minutes in seventy-nine games.

1.57 hits per 60 is the 13th percentile and 0.94 blocks the 13th. He is at the bottom of the league in both.

0.86 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.67 taken.

The Intangibles

10.34 miles per 60 is the 17th-most of the 365 tracked forwards, with 11.5 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 at the 93rd percentile.

23.2 mph is the 88th percentile. All three skating measurements are among the best on the roster and the shot is 91.4 mph, the 61st.

He is 30, twenty-sixth overall in 2010, with 343 assists in 599 games and a career plus-75. The skating, the passing and the eleven-goal surplus in front are the case. Level possession shares out of the third-softest deployment in hockey, and a hit-and-block profile at the bottom of the league, are what a club is buying when it pays for this.