Ivan Barbashev

61 points, plus 20, and half his shots from inside 20 feet.

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

2016-17	STL	30	5	7	12	+5	2	0	0	1	20	25.0	11:47
2017-18	STL	53	7	6	13	-1	4	0	0	1	45	15.6	12:12
2018-19	STL	80	14	12	26	-4	17	0	2	1	60	23.3	11:31
2019-20	STL	69	11	15	26	+4	23	0	2	2	75	14.7	13:27
2020-21	STL	38	5	7	12	+5	6	1	0	1	43	11.6	13:21
2021-22	STL	81	26	34	60	+4	40	4	1	2	111	23.4	16:26
2022-23	STL/VGK	82	16	29	45	+1	42	2	0	2	126	12.7	16:45
2023-24	VGK	82	19	26	45	+15	42	3	0	3	122	15.6	16:07
2024-25	VGK	70	23	28	51	+26	10	2	0	3	111	20.7	16:48
2025-26	VGK	82	23	38	61	+20	14	2	0	3	133	17.3	16:15
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	667	149	202	351	+75	200	14	5	19	846	17.6	14:50

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

23 goals and 38 assists in all 82 games — 61 points, plus-20, at 16:15 a night with only 14 penalty minutes.

His 667th career game and his 351st point.

The Finesse Game

193 unblocked attempts, 23 goals, median 19 feet with 51 per cent from inside 20 and only 15 per cent from beyond 40.

That is a very good chart and 23 goals in 16 minutes a night is a career-best rate.

38 assists is a career high by 10 and the reason this was the best season of his life.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 203, and he plays a heavy, honest forechecking game — he finishes checks, wins the wall, and goes to the net.

14 penalty minutes in a full season is remarkably disciplined for the way he plays.

The Intangibles

55.6 per cent of the expected goals, 91st percentile, and 51.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 72nd, across 1,235 minutes, with the chances 59.0 to 47.1 in his favour and the goals 71-50.

12 points in his last 10. He is 30, a 33rd overall pick, and 2 Stanley Cups — one in St. Louis as a fourth-liner, one in Vegas as a top-6 winger. 61 points is what the second version looks like now.

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

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
0.17 penalty minutes a game over 82, 9th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
15:04 a game at five-on-five, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,235 minutes

Expected goals: 55.6%; 91st pct
Shot attempts: 51.8%; 73rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 71 for, 50 against. Expected: 59.0 and 47.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

92nd

Numbers

91st

The two rank him within 1 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 81 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, 2025-26 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.5 mph; 66th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.82 a game
Distance: 2.61 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.4 mph; 66th 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 9 assists, 18 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1235 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, 2025-26

The club: VGK took 53.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.6% — 2.2 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,235 minutes at five-on-five — 85th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jack Eichel	57.2%	51.8%	56.7%
Shea Theodore	56.6%	54.8%	55.7%
Mark Stone	57.4%	54.5%	64.0%

57.2% together, 51.8% for him apart and 56.7% for Eichel apart. He was worse away from Eichel, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Eichel did.

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

193 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 52% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.