Yakov Trenin

A checking centre who plays the shifts nobody wants and finished plus-13 on a team that was mostly under water.

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

2019-20	NSH	21	2	4	6	+1	9	0	0	0	25	8.0	9:44
2020-21	NSH	45	5	6	11	+4	22	0	0	0	62	8.1	11:34
2021-22	NSH	80	17	7	24	+7	46	0	0	2	136	12.5	14:40
2022-23	NSH	77	12	12	24	-7	47	0	2	2	140	8.6	15:09
2023-24	NSH/COL	76	12	5	17	+15	40	0	0	3	116	10.3	14:35
2024-25	MIN	76	7	8	15	-1	54	0	2	2	85	8.2	12:31
2025-26	MIN	82	6	17	23	+13	38	0	0	1	98	6.1	13:17
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	457	61	59	120	+32	256	0	4	10	662	9.2	13:36

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

6 goals and 23 points in all 82 games, plus-13, on 13 minutes a night. 23 points is a career high, and the plus-13 on this roster is the more impressive number.

The Finesse Game

Limited and unbothered by it. 61 goals in 457 career games. He shoots from close range, finishes the odd rebound, and does not attempt plays that could go wrong in his own end.

The offence he does generate comes from the forecheck — arriving first, taking the puck, and putting it back to somebody who can use it.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 201, and it is the whole basis of his employment. He hits, he kills penalties, he wins pucks along the wall, and he takes defensive-zone draws against top lines. He does the heavy work at a level that lets skilled players start their shifts in the right end of the rink.

The Intangibles

Coaches have wanted this player at every stop, which is the clearest endorsement available for a bottom-6 forward. He plays the same way whether his team is up 3 or down 3.

At 29, with a game built on effort and detail rather than speed, he should hold this level for several more years. The ceiling is exactly what you see.

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
82 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 · 977 minutes

Expected goals: 48.9%; 45th pct
Shot attempts: 45.4%; 15th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 43 for, 30 against. Expected: 38.7 and 40.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

45th

The report ranks him 28 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

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 — 76 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 23.0 mph; 83rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.06 a game
Distance: 2.22 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.7 mph; 75th 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 — 0 goals, 3 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 977 minutes at five-on-five

Danila Yurov36%
Vladimir Tarasenkooff the roster28%
Marcus Foligno25%

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: MIN took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.9% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 977 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Danila Yurov	47.8%	49.4%	52.2%
Brock Faber	54.0%	46.2%	51.8%
Jacob Middleton	48.0%	49.2%	49.9%

47.8% together, 49.4% for him apart and 52.2% for Yurov apart. Yurov 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

156 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.