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Yakov Trenin

Twelve goals and five assists in Colorado, and 164 penalty minutes in 299 career games.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	299	48	34	82	+20	164	0	2	7	479	10.0	13:57

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 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

76 games in Colorado, 12 goals and 5 assists for 17 points, 40 penalty minutes, 14:35 a night and plus-15. He took 51.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 951 minutes, the 61st percentile, and his ice went 33-26 against an expectation of 37.52-35.93, all of it with the Avalanche.

Five goals of scoring that did not arrive and ten fewer conceded than the chances called for. Twelve goals and five assists is a fourth-line line and the plus-15 is the point of him.

The Finesse Game

116 shots at a median of 23 feet with 44 per cent from inside 20, converted at 10.3 per cent, which is his career rate almost exactly.

34 career assists in 299 games. There is no playmaking here at all — five assists in seventy-six games says it plainly. He shoots from close in because that is the only place he goes.

The Physical Game

He hits hard at 6-2 and 201 and finishes every check he starts.

164 career penalty minutes in 299 games is a real rate for a man who plays fourteen minutes. He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, and kills penalties with 2 career shorthanded goals.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick in 2015 out of Chelyabinsk, five seasons across two organisations, and 82 points in 299 games.

He is 27 and was signed to kill penalties on a club that was 25th at it. That is the entire brief and he is capable of it.

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
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
35% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 5th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He hits hard at 6-2 and 201 and finishes every check he starts.”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, and kills penalties with 2 career shorthanded goals.”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, and kills penalties with 2 career shorthanded goals.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“He forechecks aggressively, wins the wall, and kills penalties with 2 career shorthanded goals.”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“There is no playmaking here at all — five assists in seventy-six games says it plainly.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 951 minutes

Expected goals: 51.1%; 62nd pct
Shot attempts: 51.5%; 68th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 33 for, 26 against. Expected: 37.5 and 35.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

31st

Numbers

62nd

The numbers rank him 31 points above where the report does. 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. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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, 2023-24 · 76 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 46th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.55 a game
Distance: 2.44 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.1 mph; 52nd 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.

Usual linemates

2023-24 with NSH · 781 minutes at five-on-five

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, 2023-24

The club: COL took 52.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 1.2 below the club he did it on.
The role: 951 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Colton Sissons	48.5%	54.1%	51.3%
Ryan McDonagh	50.2%	51.4%	56.5%
Roman Josi	51.6%	50.9%	54.8%

48.5% together, 54.1% for him apart and 51.3% for Sissons apart. He was better away from Sissons, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Sissons.

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

179 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.