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Igor Chernyshov

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Igor Chernyshov

San Jose Sharks Left Wing #92

Nine goals in twenty-eight games, and the sixty-ninth percentile.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-262891019+263024619.615:03
Career2891019+263024619.615:03

Last Season

Nine goals and 10 assists in 28 games — 19 points, plus-two, at 15:03 a night with three power-play goals and six penalty minutes. His first professional season.

He turned 20 in November.

The Finesse Game

The most efficient scoring on the roster. Seventy-one unblocked attempts produced nine goals — from a median of 19 feet with 55 per cent from inside twenty and only six per cent from beyond forty.

That is excellent ice and an excellent conversion, and twenty-eight games is far too few to know which of them is real.

Ten assists in 28 games is a genuine rate.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 195, and he goes to the interior, which for a Russian winger arriving at twenty is not a given. Six penalty minutes.

The skating is adequate rather than quick and the strength is not there yet.

The Intangibles

Fifty-one point seven per cent of the expected goals, 69th percentile, and 51.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 69th, across 393 minutes — the best chance share of any forward on the club.

The goals went 12-23 against him anyway, which is entirely the goaltending behind him: San Jose stopped .883, .896 and .890.

Ten points in his last ten, six of them goals. He is 20, a thirty-third overall pick, and on a roster this crowded with lottery selections he is the one nobody outside the organisation is talking about yet.