Pavel Buchnevich

674 games, 506 points, and 45 per cent of his shots from the slot.

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

2016-17	NYR	41	8	12	20	+6	13	1	0	0	55	14.5	13:16
2017-18	NYR	74	14	29	43	-3	20	5	0	4	136	10.3	15:01
2018-19	NYR	64	21	17	38	-10	13	7	0	1	119	17.6	15:10
2019-20	NYR	68	16	30	46	+2	24	4	0	1	148	10.8	16:56
2020-21	NYR	54	20	28	48	+12	42	1	3	2	120	16.7	18:44
2021-22	STL	73	30	46	76	+29	34	8	2	3	199	15.1	18:18
2022-23	STL	63	26	41	67	+14	36	8	0	2	123	21.1	19:27
2023-24	STL	80	27	36	63	+3	48	8	2	5	207	13.0	19:49
2024-25	STL	76	20	37	57	+10	23	2	0	3	145	13.8	19:02
2025-26	STL	81	20	28	48	-10	26	4	0	4	142	14.1	17:56
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	674	202	304	506	+53	279	48	7	25	1394	14.5	17:34

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

20 goals and 28 assists in 81 games — 48 points, minus-10, at 17:56 a night with 4 power-play goals. His 674th career game and his 506th point.

The Finesse Game

Skilled in a way that has never quite been fashionable — he is deceptive with the puck, patient under pressure, and the release is disguised.

215 unblocked attempts, 20 goals, median 22 feet with 45 per cent from inside 20 and only 19 per cent from beyond 40. That is very good ice for a winger of his type.

202 goals and 304 assists in 674 games.

The Physical Game

6-1, 196, and he takes the punishment that comes with working the slot without dishing much out. 26 penalty minutes.

The skating is fine and the compete has been questioned more than once across 2 organisations, usually by people watching him coast through a neutral zone he had no intention of entering.

The Intangibles

51.4 per cent of the expected goals, 67th percentile, and 49.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 54th, across 1,080 minutes, with the chances 47.2 to 44.6 in his favour.

8 points in his last 10, 5 of them goals.

He is 31, a third-round pick, and on a club that has turned over almost entirely since 2019 he is the veteran scorer the young wingers are being measured against. 20 goals and 48 points is a fair season and about 10 points short of what he was signed for.

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

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.

durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,080 minutes

Expected goals: 51.4%; 67th pct
Shot attempts: 49.7%; 54th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 45 for, 48 against. Expected: 47.2 and 44.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

82nd

Numbers

67th

The two rank him within 15 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.

Both 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 — 78 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 21.5 mph; 21st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.78 a game
Distance: 2.90 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.9 mph; 76th 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 — 5 goals, 3 assists, 16 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1080 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: STL took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.4% — 1.2 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,080 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Colton Parayko	53.0%	50.3%	50.7%
Philip Broberg	51.9%	51.1%	51.5%
Cam Fowler	47.8%	53.3%	49.6%

53.0% together, 50.3% for him apart and 50.7% for Parayko apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

215 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.