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Marcus Foligno
Minnesota Wild Left Wing
Eight hundred and eight career penalty minutes in 798 games, and a shot median of twenty feet.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 798 | 126 | 168 | 294 | +40 | 808 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 934 | 13.5 | 14:15 |
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
55 games, 10 goals and 12 assists for 22 points, 59 penalty minutes, 14:29 a night and plus-10. He took 53.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 653 minutes, the 80th percentile, and his ice went 23-20 against an expectation of 22.98-19.79.
Level at both ends, which on a club that was 28th at goaltending makes him the closest thing here to unaffected. Fifty-five games is the fewest he has played since the shortened seasons.
The Finesse Game
82 attempts at a median of 20 feet with half of them from inside 20, converted at 17.9 per cent against a career 13.49.
168 career assists in 798 games. Ten goals on 56 shots is a rate that will not repeat. Everything he scores comes from within fifteen feet of the crease and none of it comes from a play he made himself.
The Physical Game
He hits harder than anybody on this roster at 6-3 and 226, and 808 career penalty minutes in 798 games is what a career of it costs.
He will fight anybody, clears the crease, and takes liberties on men who cannot answer. He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, and kills penalties with 5 career shorthanded goals.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2009 out of Buffalo, New York, thirteen seasons across two organisations, and 294 points in 798 games. His father and his brother both had long careers in this league.
He is 33 and the body is starting to charge for the way he plays. On a club that spends the sixth-most time shorthanded in hockey, 808 career penalty minutes is not a neutral fact.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 653 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.7%
- 81st pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.2%
- 73rd 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: 23 for, 20 against. Expected: 23.0 and 19.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 15 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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 · 653 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
- MIN took 51.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.7% — 2.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 653 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Gaudreau | 48.4% | 58.5% | 45.2% |
| Pat Maroon | 50.8% | 55.7% | 42.9% |
| Jake Middleton | 61.5% | 50.1% | 46.3% |
48.4% together, 58.5% for him apart and 45.2% for Gaudreau apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Gaudreau 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
82 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.