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Kirill Marchenko
Columbus Blue Jackets Right Wing
Forty-four goals in 137 NHL games, sixteen of them on the power play.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 59 | 21 | 4 | 25 | -23 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 131 | 16.0 | 16:11 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 78 | 23 | 19 | 42 | -5 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 193 | 11.9 | 16:25 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 137 | 44 | 23 | 67 | -28 | 30 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 324 | 13.6 | 16:19 |
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
23 goals and 19 assists in 78 games — 42 points at 16:25 a night, minus-5, with 9 power-play goals on 193 shots, converting at 11.92 per cent, and 14 penalty minutes.
45.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,039 minutes, the 19th percentile. His ice went 47-52 against an expectation of 40.12-48.85 — seven goals scored above expectation and three conceded above it.
The Finesse Game
193 attempts at a median of 28 feet, with 35 per cent from inside 20 and 17 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 11.92 per cent against a career 13.58.
The release is the reason he is here — heavy and quick from the middle distance, and it works from the far circle on a power play, which is where sixteen of his forty-four career goals have come from.
19 assists on 42 points. He is a shooter and the passing is what happens when the shot is covered.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 201 and light for the height. He forechecks honestly without punishing anybody and he protects the puck with reach rather than by winning a battle.
14 penalty minutes in 78 games and 30 in 137 for his career is one of the lowest rates on the roster. He does not agitate and he does not retaliate.
The Intangibles
Forty-ninth overall in 2018, out of Yekaterinburg, and 137 games and 67 points at 24 after four seasons in Russia before he came.
Forty-four goals in 137 NHL games from a second-round pick who arrived at 22 is the best piece of drafting on a roster carrying nine top-ten picks, and he is the club’s most reliable finisher.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,039 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.1%
- 19th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.7%
- 33rd 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: 47 for, 52 against. Expected: 40.1 and 48.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 56 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 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1039 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
- CBJ took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.1% — 0.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,039 minutes at five-on-five — 63rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dmitri Voronkov | 49.7% | 40.5% | 48.6% |
| Zach Werenski | 46.8% | 44.0% | 47.6% |
| Ivan Provorov | 41.4% | 47.2% | 47.5% |
49.7% together, 40.5% for him apart and 48.6% for Voronkov apart. He was worse away from Voronkov, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Voronkov 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
255 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 24 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.