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Philipp Kurashev
Chicago Blackhawks Center
Ten point three eight miles per 60 at the 96th percentile, and the largest negative with-and-without split on the roster.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | CHI | 54 | 8 | 8 | 16 | -9 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 65 | 12.3 | 13:05 |
| 2021-22 | CHI | 67 | 6 | 15 | 21 | -16 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 86 | 7.0 | 12:51 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 121 | 14 | 23 | 37 | -25 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 151 | 9.3 | 12:57 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
6 goals and 15 assists in 67 games — 21 points at 12:51 a night, minus-16, with 12 penalty minutes.
43.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 774 minutes, the 11th percentile among forwards. His ice went 21-33 against an expectation of 24.07-30.87.
1.23 even-strength points per 60 is the 17th percentile. Twenty-one points in a third season is not the trajectory a fourth-round pick needs.
The Finesse Game
5.99 shots per 60 is the 25th percentile among forwards at 7.0 per cent, the 12th. Six goals on 86 shots, from a median of 26 feet with 49 per cent from the slot.
0.77 giveaways per 60 is the 5th percentile among forwards. He is careful with the puck to a fault: the turnover rate is elite and so is the absence of anything happening.
1.05 penalties drawn per 60 is the 75th percentile with a drawn-minus-taken of plus-0.63 at the 93rd.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 190, 2.16 hits per 60 is the 23rd percentile among forwards and 2.09 blocks is the 71st. He is not physical.
10.38 miles per 60 is the 96th percentile among forwards against a top speed of 22.2 mph at the 38th. He covers an enormous amount of ground at an ordinary speed, which is what a young forward doing the right thing without the tools looks like.
The Intangibles
One hundred and twentieth overall in 2018, fourth round, and 121 NHL games at 22.
With Jake McCabe on the ice he took 35.4 per cent of the chances and 48.9 without him, across 479 attempts together and 824 apart. That is a thirteen-point gap. It does not settle whether he was being sunk or being sheltered when he was away from the club’s hardest defensive assignment, and 774 minutes is not enough to.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 774 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.8%
- 13th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.9%
- 15th 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: 21 for, 33 against. Expected: 24.1 and 30.9.
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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 55 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, 2021-22 · 67 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 55th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.36 a game
- Distance
- 2.22 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.7 mph
- 75th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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.
Usual linemates
2021-22 · 774 minutes at five-on-five
- Sam Lafferty18%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- CHI took 45.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.8% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 774 minutes at five-on-five — 39th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jake McCabe | 35.4% | 48.9% | 45.3% |
| Kirby Dach | 44.8% | 43.2% | 45.8% |
| Seth Jones | 45.6% | 42.8% | 47.6% |
35.4% together, 48.9% for him apart and 45.3% for McCabe apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
105 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.