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Marco Rossi
Minnesota Wild Center
60 points at 24 from 5-9 and 182 pounds, with 53 per cent of his shots taken from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | MIN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 15:35 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0.0 | 12:31 |
| 2023-24 | MIN | 82 | 21 | 19 | 40 | -4 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 167 | 12.6 | 16:44 |
| 2024-25 | MIN | 82 | 24 | 36 | 60 | +3 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 136 | 17.6 | 18:15 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 185 | 45 | 56 | 101 | -9 | 85 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 321 | 14.0 | 16:58 |
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
24 goals and 36 assists in 82 games for 60 points, plus-3, on 18:15 a night.
52.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 77th percentile. 53 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 18 — the most interior profile among the club’s forwards — and 17.6 per cent conversion on only 136 attempts.
His on-ice goals were 56-39 against an expected 50.0-44.5, which is six goals of finishing above expectation at one end and six fewer conceded than the chances called for at the other.
The Finesse Game
A small centre who has decided the only way to survive is to play inside, and it works. He goes to the net, takes pucks off sticks below the goal line, and the passing out of those areas is genuinely good — 36 assists on this club is a real total.
136 shots is a low volume and the 17.6 per cent rate will fall. What should not fall is the location profile, which is the most encouraging thing about him: a man this size getting to the paint 53 per cent of the time is doing something repeatable.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 182, and among the smallest centres in the league. He competes far harder than the frame suggests, wins more pucks than he should, and takes an enormous amount of punishment at the net front.
26 penalty minutes over 82 games. Two consecutive full seasons at this size playing this way is a genuine achievement.
The Intangibles
A 9th overall pick, a serious illness that cost him most of two development years, and a long restricted free agency that was conducted in public.
At 24 the projection is a second-line centre who scores 20 and defends. The club’s willingness to argue about his value at length says more about the organisation than about the player.
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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
67.1% of his attempts in the slot, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
52.9% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 47.2% for his club in the minutes he sat: +5.7, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:35 a game at five-on-five, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
“takes an enormous amount of punishment at the net front”
“takes pucks off sticks below the goal line”
“the passing out of those areas is genuinely good — 36 assists on this club is a real total”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,196 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.9%
- 77th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.1%
- 54th 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: 56 for, 39 against. Expected: 50.0 and 44.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 11 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 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 76th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.22 a game
- Distance
- 2.85 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.6 mph
- 37th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 1196 minutes at five-on-five
- Matt Boldy47%
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
- MIN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.9% — 3.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,196 minutes at five-on-five — 84th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mats Zuccarello | 51.3% | 55.1% | 45.5% |
| Matt Boldy | 53.8% | 51.9% | 53.2% |
| Brock Faber | 52.1% | 53.5% | 42.8% |
51.3% together, 55.1% for him apart and 45.5% for Zuccarello apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Zuccarello behind.
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
207 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 24 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.