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Ivan Barbashev

Twenty-three goals on 111 shots — a 20.7 per cent conversion — and a plus-26.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	585	126	164	290	+55	186	12	5	16	713	17.7	14:38

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

23 goals and 28 assists in 70 games — 51 points at 16:48 a night, plus-26, with 3 game-winners on 111 shots, converting at 20.7 per cent, and 10 penalty minutes.

53.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 74th percentile. His ice went 61-40 against an expectation of 48.33-41.52 — thirteen goals of scoring missing, on a first line that was creating at a very high rate.

The Finesse Game

111 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 48 per cent from inside 20 and only 10 per cent from beyond 40. He shoots from the house and almost nowhere else, and 20.7 per cent is the highest conversion of anybody on the club.

28 assists in 70 games from a first-line winger is honest production. The hands are ordinary; he arrives in the right place because he wins the puck first.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 203 and he forechecks as hard as anybody on this roster. He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he is difficult to move off possession.

10 penalty minutes in 70 games is a remarkable total for a player who plays this way. He does not retaliate and he is essentially never beaten badly enough to have to foul — on the club that spent the least time shorthanded in the league.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick in 2014 and 585 games and 290 points, with a Stanley Cup in St. Louis in 2019 and another here in 2023.

He is 29. He was acquired at the 2023 deadline and scored 18 points in 22 playoff games on the way to the Cup.

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

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
0.14 penalty minutes a game over 70, 8th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:51 a game at five-on-five, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“**111 attempts at a median of 21 feet with 48 per cent from inside 20 and only 10 per cent from beyond 40.** He shoots from the house and almost nowhere else, and 20.7 per cent is the highest conversion of anybody on the club.”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“**6-0 and 203 and he forechecks as hard as anybody on this roster.** He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he is difficult to move off possession.”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he is difficult to move off possession.”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he is difficult to move off possession.”
fouls-when-beatena strength· the stick foul that follows losing a step
“**10 penalty minutes in 70 games** is a remarkable total for a player who plays this way. He does not retaliate and he is essentially never beaten badly enough to have to foul — on the club that spent the least time shorthanded in the league.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,040 minutes

Expected goals: 53.8%; 84th pct
Shot attempts: 50.1%; 54th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 61 for, 40 against. Expected: 48.3 and 41.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

88th

Numbers

84th

The two rank him within 4 points of one another. 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.

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 — 80 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 · 70 games

Top speed: 22.2 mph; 44th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.64 a game
Distance: 2.71 miles a game
Hardest shot: 93.3 mph; 92nd 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 · 1040 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: VGK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.8% — 0.3 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,040 minutes at five-on-five — 67th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jack Eichel	53.6%	54.5%	58.0%
Mark Stone	53.0%	54.5%	60.8%
Shea Theodore	51.3%	55.5%	55.6%

53.6% together, 54.5% for him apart and 58.0% for Eichel apart. Eichel was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

176 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 23 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 49% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 10% from beyond forty.