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Marcus Foligno

A heavy, honest winger 15 years in, with the production falling away faster than the willingness.

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

2011-12	BUF	14	6	7	13	+6	9	2	0	1	23	26.1	15:49
2012-13	BUF	47	5	13	18	-4	41	1	0	0	55	9.1	13:38
2013-14	BUF	74	7	12	19	-17	82	0	1	3	79	8.9	15:04
2014-15	BUF	57	8	12	20	-5	50	0	0	0	66	12.1	16:14
2015-16	BUF	75	10	13	23	+4	79	0	2	2	81	12.3	13:11
2016-17	BUF	80	13	10	23	-1	73	0	1	0	97	13.4	15:28
2017-18	MIN	77	8	15	23	+2	72	1	0	2	79	10.1	10:52
2018-19	MIN	82	7	12	19	-1	55	0	0	0	91	7.7	11:58
2019-20	MIN	59	11	14	25	+8	30	0	0	0	86	12.8	14:35
2020-21	MIN	39	11	15	26	+19	49	0	1	2	40	27.5	14:58
2021-22	MIN	74	23	19	42	+25	112	5	0	3	98	23.5	16:24
2022-23	MIN	65	7	14	21	-6	97	0	0	0	83	8.4	14:59
2023-24	MIN	55	10	12	22	+10	59	0	0	3	56	17.9	14:29
2024-25	MIN	77	14	15	29	+7	75	0	0	1	91	15.4	14:29
2025-26	MIN	56	8	5	13	-12	67	2	0	0	65	12.3	12:51
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	931	148	188	336	+35	950	11	5	17	1090	13.6	14:11

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

8 goals and 13 points in 56 games, minus-12, on under 13 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. 6-3 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.

65 shots in 56 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 35, 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.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 629 minutes

Expected goals: 50.9%; 63rd pct
Shot attempts: 49.1%; 48th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 14 for, 26 against. Expected: 25.6 and 24.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

61st

Numbers

63rd

Blind

33rd

The two rank him within 2 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

The same player was graded a second time from his biography and his box score alone, with the measured record withheld. That reading lands 30 points from the numbers; this one lands 2. Across the whole control the two distances come out the same, which is worth knowing in both directions: the arithmetic on both sides of the sighted reading did not buy it any accuracy, and it did not cost it any either.

All three bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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, 2025-26 · 56 games

Top speed: 21.5 mph; 20th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.70 a game
Distance: 1.94 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.3 mph; 73rd 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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 1 assists, 16 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 629 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, 2025-26

The club: MIN took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.9% — 0.4 above the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 629 minutes at five-on-five — 25th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Yakov Trenin	51.8%	50.2%	47.9%
Brock Faber	59.8%	47.0%	51.3%
Jacob Middleton	52.2%	50.2%	48.7%

51.8% together, 50.2% for him apart and 47.9% for Trenin apart. Trenin was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Trenin than for him.

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

84 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.