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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Sergei Murashov

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Sergei Murashov

Pittsburgh Penguins Goaltender #1

5 appearances, a shutout, and the most interesting goaltender in the organisation.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2025-26PIT5112122.561116.897
2026-27 so far——————————
Career—5112122.561116.897

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

5 appearances, 1-1-2, a 2.56 goals-against average and a .8966 save percentage with 1 shutout. His first NHL games, at 21.

Over those 5, .897 on 116 shots.

The Physical Game

6-2, 185, and light, with a compact positional style rather than an athletic one. He is calm, he does not fight pucks, and the depth management is disciplined for his age.

5 games is nothing and it would be dishonest to build a technical assessment on it.

The Mental Game

A fourth-round pick out of Russia who has moved quickly through the American League, and a shutout in a 5-game NHL sample is the kind of thing that gets a young goaltender remembered.

The Intangibles

The context is the whole page. Pittsburgh’s goaltending came in 12 goals worse than the chances it faced, and Silovs — the man holding the job — stopped .8873 and finished the season at .852 across his last 10.

The club has Crosby at 39, Malkin at 40, Letang at 39 and Karlsson at 36, and it finished 4th in the league at generating even-strength offence. The one position it has not solved is the one that decides games.

He is 22 with 5 NHL appearances. That is not an answer yet. On this roster it is the most interesting question.

The numbers underneath

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Last 5 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

.897

save percentage over his last 5, on 116 shots · .897 across these 5

Each bar is one appearance, taller being a better save percentage. Filled bars are .920 or better.