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Fedor Svechkov
Nashville Predators Center
The 19th pick in 2021, 12.5 per cent shooting in a defensive role, and 14 penalty minutes in 52 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | NSH | 52 | 8 | 9 | 17 | -17 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 64 | 12.5 | 12:53 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 52 | 8 | 9 | 17 | -17 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 64 | 12.5 | 12:53 |
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
52 games, 8 goals and 9 assists for 17 points at 12:53 a night, on 64 shots at 12.5 per cent — the best conversion rate among the club’s bottom-six forwards. 14 penalty minutes. Minus-17, on five-on-five goals of 14-29.
A 49.6 per cent chance share against an expectation that his line would finish roughly even at 19.93-20.59, so the process was sound and eight goals went the wrong way. That is 544 minutes, a small enough sample that it argues very little in either direction.
The Finesse Game
A defensive centre first, with more offence underneath it than the role shows. 33 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet and 12.5 per cent conversion on low volume suggests a man who shoots when the chance is genuine rather than to manufacture one.
The skating is average and the reads are ahead of it — he is usually in the right place, arrived at slightly late. The faceoff work is developing and the coaching staff already trusts him without the puck.
The Physical Game
187 pounds, honest rather than heavy. He is not moved easily and he does not initiate.
14 penalty minutes in 52 games in a checking role is excellent discipline, and on a club that led its division in shorthanded time it is the single most useful line on his page.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick who took four years to arrive, two of them in Russia and one in the American League. Nothing about the development was rushed and nothing about the projection has changed.
He is a third-line centre who kills penalties, and this club needs one badly enough to give him the minutes.
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.
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
69% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“the coaching staff already trusts him without the puck.”
“The faceoff work is developing”
“He is a third-line centre who kills penalties, and this club needs one badly enough to give him the minutes.”
“He is not moved easily and he does not initiate.”
“187 pounds, honest rather than heavy. He is not moved easily and he does not initiate.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 544 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.2%
- 46th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51%
- 64th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 14 for, 29 against. Expected: 19.9 and 20.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 39 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 — 62 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 · 52 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 68th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.65 a game
- Distance
- 2.14 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.2 mph
- 67th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 544 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
- NSH took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.2% — level with the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 544 minutes at five-on-five — 19th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brady Skjei | 50.3% | 48.6% | 46.5% |
| Zachary L'Heureux | 53.7% | 47.5% | 50.0% |
| Thomas Novak | 59.9% | 45.2% | 52.2% |
50.3% together, 48.6% for him apart and 46.5% for Skjei apart. Skjei was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Skjei 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
105 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 33% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.