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Nikita Kucherov
Tampa Bay Lightning Right Wing
A hundred assists and 144 points, both the most of anybody in this edition.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | TBL | 52 | 9 | 9 | 18 | +3 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 102 | 8.8 | 13:07 |
| 2014-15 | TBL | 82 | 29 | 36 | 65 | +38 | 37 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 191 | 15.2 | 14:57 |
| 2015-16 | TBL | 77 | 30 | 36 | 66 | +9 | 30 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 209 | 14.3 | 18:13 |
| 2016-17 | TBL | 74 | 40 | 45 | 85 | +13 | 38 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 246 | 16.3 | 19:26 |
| 2017-18 | TBL | 80 | 39 | 61 | 100 | +15 | 42 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 279 | 14.0 | 19:49 |
| 2018-19 | TBL | 82 | 41 | 87 | 128 | +24 | 62 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 246 | 16.7 | 19:58 |
| 2019-20 | TBL | 68 | 33 | 52 | 85 | +26 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 210 | 15.7 | 18:52 |
| 2021-22 | TBL | 47 | 25 | 44 | 69 | +1 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 156 | 16.0 | 19:59 |
| 2022-23 | TBL | 82 | 30 | 83 | 113 | -2 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 271 | 11.1 | 20:08 |
| 2023-24 | TBL | 81 | 44 | 100 | 144 | +8 | 22 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 306 | 14.4 | 21:40 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 725 | 320 | 553 | 873 | +135 | 341 | 88 | 0 | 48 | 2216 | 14.4 | 18:45 |
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
81 games, 44 goals and 100 assists for 144 points, 13 on the power play, 22 penalty minutes, 21:40 a night and plus-8, with 6 game-winners. He took 54.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,333 minutes, the 85th percentile, and his ice went 81-76 against an expectation of 69.22-57.77.
Twelve goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and eighteen more conceded than they called for. A hundred assists is tied for the most in this edition and 144 points is the highest total in it.
The Finesse Game
447 attempts at a median of 33 feet with 23 per cent of them from inside twenty and 31 per cent from beyond forty, 297 of those on goal, converted at 14.4 per cent against a career 14.44 across 2,216 shots.
553 career assists in 725 games. He plays the game from the right half-wall and from below the goal line and sees the seam a beat before anybody else on the ice does; the shot goes only when the pass is covered, which is why he shoots from thirty-three feet and still converts at fourteen per cent.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 173 and took 22 penalty minutes.
341 career penalty minutes in 725 games. He is one of the lightest forwards in this edition and there is no contact in his game at all; everything depends on holding the puck away from a stick rather than away from a body.
The Intangibles
Fifty-eighth overall in 2011 by Tampa Bay, ten seasons, one organisation, and 873 points in 725 games.
A career plus-135 — the largest positive figure on this roster — and 88 career power-play goals. He has played every one of his 725 NHL games for the same club, and a hundred assists is a career high by thirteen.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,333 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.5%
- 85th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.8%
- 84th 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: 81 for, 76 against. Expected: 69.2 and 57.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 83 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 · 1333 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
- TBL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.5% — 4.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,333 minutes at five-on-five — 91st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brayden Point | 54.1% | 56.4% | 41.0% |
| Victor Hedman | 54.5% | 54.5% | 49.7% |
| Darren Raddysh | 54.0% | 54.8% | 51.1% |
54.1% together, 56.4% for him apart and 41.0% for Point apart. Point was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Point 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
447 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 44 of them goals. His median goal came from 28 feet. 23% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.