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Philipp Kurashev
Chicago Blackhawks Center
Twenty-five points at seventeen minutes a night, and the 7th percentile in expected-goal share.
| 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 | CHI | 70 | 9 | 16 | 25 | -32 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 116 | 7.8 | 17:25 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 191 | 23 | 39 | 62 | -57 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 267 | 8.6 | 14:35 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
9 goals and 16 assists in 70 games — 25 points at 17:25 a night, minus-32, with 116 shots at 7.76 per cent.
41.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 997 minutes, the 7th percentile. His ice went 39-58 against an expectation of 35.99-50.47 — the goals for beat the forecast and the goals against blew past it by seven and a half.
50.1 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 46th percentile.
The Finesse Game
116 attempts at a median of 26 feet, 39 per cent from inside twenty. Five goals on 44 shots from inside twenty at 11.4 per cent, four from the middle band, one on 26 from beyond forty.
7.76 per cent on the season and 8.61 per cent across 191 career games. He is a fourth-round pick playing top-six minutes because there was nobody else, and the production is what that looks like: 62 points in 191 games.
Seventeen minutes a night at 23 is a genuine opportunity and he did not take it. That is the honest reading, and the softer one is that no forward on this roster was going to look good.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 190 with 14 penalty minutes, and no contact in the game at all.
2.94 miles a game at the 77th percentile is the one number that flatters him — he works. 22.2 mph at the 45th and 1.4 bursts at the 71st are ordinary.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick at 120th overall in 2018, Swiss, and 191 NHL games by 23.
He is a useful case for how much of a bad season belongs to the player. His expected-goal share was the 7th percentile and his zone starts were dead even at 50.1 per cent, so the deployment does not excuse it. What the data cannot say is whether a 23-year-old on a good club looks like a different player, and Chicago is not going to be a good club for a while.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 997 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.6%
- 7th pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.5%
- 7th 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: 39 for, 58 against. Expected: 36.0 and 50.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 56 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, 2022-23 · 70 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 51st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.44 a game
- Distance
- 2.94 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.8 mph
- 87th 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 84.9
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
2022-23 · 997 minutes at five-on-five
- Jonathan Toewsoff the roster33%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- CHI took 42.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.6% — 0.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 997 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Raddysh | 41.9% | 41.4% | 49.4% |
| Seth Jones | 47.0% | 38.4% | 46.6% |
| Max Domi | 46.9% | 38.5% | 42.8% |
41.9% together, 41.4% for him apart and 49.4% for Raddysh apart. Raddysh was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
153 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.