Vladimir Tarasenko
Minnesota Wild Right Wing
33 points at 33 and a minus-13, and the cheapest possible attempt to buy a scorer.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | STL | 38 | 8 | 11 | 19 | +1 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 10.7 | 13:25 |
| 2013-14 | STL | 64 | 21 | 22 | 43 | +20 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 136 | 15.4 | 15:10 |
| 2014-15 | STL | 77 | 37 | 36 | 73 | +27 | 31 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 264 | 14.0 | 17:37 |
| 2015-16 | STL | 80 | 40 | 34 | 74 | +7 | 37 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 292 | 13.7 | 18:38 |
| 2016-17 | STL | 82 | 39 | 36 | 75 | -1 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 286 | 13.6 | 18:28 |
| 2017-18 | STL | 80 | 33 | 33 | 66 | +15 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 306 | 10.8 | 19:03 |
| 2018-19 | STL | 76 | 33 | 35 | 68 | +8 | 22 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 275 | 12.0 | 18:24 |
| 2019-20 | STL | 10 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 11.5 | 16:11 |
| 2020-21 | STL | 24 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 6.2 | 17:25 |
| 2021-22 | STL | 75 | 34 | 48 | 82 | +7 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 230 | 14.8 | 16:55 |
| 2022-23 | STL/NYR | 69 | 18 | 32 | 50 | -14 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 169 | 10.7 | 16:48 |
| 2023-24 | OTT/FLA | 76 | 23 | 32 | 55 | +13 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 155 | 14.8 | 15:44 |
| 2024-25 | DET | 80 | 11 | 22 | 33 | -13 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 133 | 8.3 | 14:47 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 831 | 304 | 358 | 662 | +61 | 203 | 70 | 1 | 51 | 2412 | 12.6 | 17:02 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
11 goals and 22 assists in 80 games for 33 points, minus-13, on 14:47 a night with Detroit.
133 shots and 11 goals at 8.3 per cent, which is roughly half his career rate. 33 points is the lowest full-season total of his career by 15.
The Finesse Game
The shot was one of the best in the league for a decade and it has not entirely gone — the release is still heavy and it still gets away quickly from the circle.
What has gone is everything that got him to the circle. 133 shots in 80 games is a low volume and 22 assists says he is not compensating with playmaking. He needs the puck delivered into space and there are fewer and fewer players willing to do it for him.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 219, and he does not use it. He avoids the wall, does not forecheck, and does not go to the net front.
6 penalty minutes over 80 games is the most telling number in his record: he is not involved in anything.
The Intangibles
Two Cups, four 30-goal seasons, a shoulder that required surgery more than once, and four organisations in three years.
At 34 on a cheap short deal, Minnesota is buying the possibility that a 30-goal shot beside Kaprizov and Boldy produces more than it did beside nobody. That is a reasonable thing to buy at the price and it is the last version of it anybody will try.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 986 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.6%
- 28th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.1%
- 12th 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: 40 for, 36 against. Expected: 37.2 and 41.0.
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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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
2024-25 with DET · 986 minutes at five-on-five
- J.T. Compher44%
- Marco Kasper21%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 986 minutes at five-on-five — 59th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonatan Berggren | 50.8% | 45.3% | 43.8% |
| J.T. Compher | 50.7% | 45.4% | 39.2% |
| Ben Chiarot | 44.3% | 49.1% | 45.1% |
50.8% together, 45.3% for him apart and 43.8% for Berggren apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
192 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 27% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.