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Marat Khusnutdinov

12 points, a 42.1 per cent chance share — the 6th percentile in the league — and a change of organisation at 23.

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

2023-24	MIN	16	1	3	4	-3	6	1	0	0	6	16.7	13:07
2024-25	MIN/BOS	75	5	7	12	-11	20	0	0	0	41	12.2	12:05
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	91	6	10	16	-14	26	1	0	0	47	12.8	12:16

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

5 goals and 7 assists in 75 games for 12 points, minus-11, on 12:05 a night between Minnesota and Boston.

40.8 per cent at five-on-five, the 4th percentile among all skaters. His on-ice goals were 13-25 against an expected 19-27, so the goaltending covered part of it and the underlying play was as bad as the share suggests.

The Finesse Game

The skating is genuine — quick feet, good acceleration, and the ability to recover on a backcheck. It is the only NHL-standard tool here at present.

41 shots in 75 games is almost nothing, and 12 points is a fourth-liner’s total in a fourth-liner’s minutes. The junior and international scoring has not translated at all, and there is no sign yet of a shot or a passing game that will change that.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 184, and light. He is willing on the forecheck and gets pushed off pucks by NHL defencemen, which is the specific thing keeping him from being useful in a checking role.

20 penalty minutes over 75 games. Nothing careless.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick who came over from Russia at 22, was traded inside two seasons, and is now on his second organisation before turning 24.

The honest reading of a 6th-percentile chance share over 744 minutes is that he is not yet an NHL player. The skating is real enough to keep giving him chances, and Boston is a club with the ice time available to find out.

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.

ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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.

forechecks-aggressivelypresent and ordinary· first man in, and on the puck
“He is willing on the forecheck”
hard-to-movehe lacks it· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“gets pushed off pucks by NHL defencemen, which is the specific thing keeping him from being useful in a checking role”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“there is no sign yet of a shot or a passing game that will change that”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 744 minutes

Expected goals: 40.8%; 5th pct
Shot attempts: 41.8%; 3rd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 13 for, 25 against. Expected: 18.8 and 27.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

21st

Numbers

5th

The two rank him within 16 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 — 67 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 · 75 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 75th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.47 a game
Distance: 2.03 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.4 mph; 47th 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 with MIN · 555 minutes at five-on-five

Devin Shoreoff the roster33%
Jakub Laukooff the roster33%
Yakov Trenin29%

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: BOS took 48.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.8% — 7.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: 744 minutes at five-on-five — 32nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jakub Lauko	41.3%	40.5%	41.0%
Zach Bogosian	40.7%	40.8%	49.1%
Devin Shore	44.3%	39.4%	39.8%

41.3% together, 40.5% for him apart and 41.0% for Lauko apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

65 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 28 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.