Ivan Miroshnichenko

Twenty-one games at 20, from a twentieth-overall pick.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI
2023-24	WSH	21	2	4	6	-4	6	0	0	0	30	6.7	12:08
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	21	2	4	6	-4	6	0	0	0	30	6.7	12:08

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 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

21 games, 2 goals and 4 assists for 6 points, 6 penalty minutes, 12:08 a night and minus-4. He took 48.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 243 minutes, the 43rd percentile, and his ice went 7-11 against an expectation of 10.38-10.95.

Three goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and level at the other end. Twenty-one games is the whole of his NHL career and he is 20.

The Finesse Game

57 attempts at a median of 27 feet with 37 per cent of them from inside twenty and 21 per cent from beyond forty, 29 of those on goal, converted at 6.7 per cent against the same figure for his career.

Two career goals and 4 assists in 21 games. Only 29 of his 57 attempts reached the goaltender, which is the lowest proportion of any forward on this club; the shot is genuinely heavy and it is not yet accurate.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 185 and took 6 penalty minutes.

Six career penalty minutes in 21 games. He is an ordinary size for a winger at 20 and there is filling out still to come; he goes to the inside without yet being able to hold ground there.

The Intangibles

Twentieth overall in 2022 by Washington, one season, and 6 points in 21 games.

A career minus-4 in 21 games. He is 20, he was a first-round pick by this club, and 21 games is everything anybody knows about him.

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.

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.

net-fronthe lacks it· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“Only 29 of his 57 attempts reached the goaltender, which is the lowest proportion of any forward on this club; the shot is genuinely heavy and it is not yet accurate.”
hard-to-movehe lacks it· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He is an ordinary size for a winger at 20 and there is filling out still to come; he goes to the inside without yet being able to hold ground there.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 243 minutes

Expected goals: 48.7%; 44th pct
Shot attempts: 47.5%; 31st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 7 for, 11 against. Expected: 10.4 and 10.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

84th

Numbers

44th

The report ranks him 40 points above where the numbers do. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 77 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, 2023-24 · 21 games

Top speed: 21.2 mph; 13th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.71 a game
Distance: 1.99 miles a game
Hardest shot: 97.1 mph; 96th 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

2023-24 · 243 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, 2023-24

The club: WSH took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.7% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: 243 minutes at five-on-five — 3rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Dylan Strome	56.6%	38.7%	53.9%
John Carlson	57.1%	43.8%	47.1%
Rasmus Sandin	37.2%	53.7%	47.1%

56.6% together, 38.7% for him apart and 53.9% for Strome apart. He was worse away from Strome, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Strome 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

57 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 44 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.