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Marcus Foligno
Minnesota Wild Left Wing #17
A heavy, honest winger fifteen years in, with the production falling away faster than the willingness.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 56 | 8 | 5 | 13 | -12 | 67 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 12.3 | 12:51 |
| Career | 931 | 148 | 188 | 336 | +35 | 950 | 11 | 5 | 17 | 1090 | 13.6 | 14:11 |
Last Season
Eight goals and 13 points in 56 games, minus-12, on under thirteen minutes a night with 67 penalty minutes. That is a thin year by any measure, including his own recent ones.
The Physical Game
The reason he has had a long career. Six-three and 226, and he plays every inch of it — he finishes checks with intent, he protects teammates, and he is genuinely unpleasant to play against along the wall. He fights when the game calls for it, which is less often than it used to be but has not stopped.
He forechecks hard and takes the puck off defencemen by simply arriving heavier than they expected.
The Finesse Game
Modest, and always has been. He scores from within a few feet, mostly off rebounds and net-front scrambles. The hands work in traffic and nowhere else, the shot is not a threat from distance, and he does not create for linemates.
Sixty-five shots in fifty-six games is a low volume even for this role.
The Intangibles
He has been the physical identity of this club for the better part of a decade, and he plays with a genuine edge that teammates value more than the numbers do.
He is thirty-five, his ice time has fallen every year, and the offence has fallen with it. Players of this type stop being useful all at once rather than gradually, and this season will say a good deal about where he is on that curve.