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17

Yegor Sharangovich

Calgary Flames Center

Thirty-one goals at a 17.32 per cent conversion, and eight penalty minutes all season.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21NJD54161430-4421311414.016:48
2021-22NJD76242246-142322316814.316:30
2022-23NJD75131730-3160221319.914:25
2023-24CGY82312859-29863417917.317:19
2024-25 so far—————————————
Career—2878481165-50511081259214.216:15

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

31 goals and 28 assists in all 82 games — 59 points at 17:19 a night, with 6 power-play goals, 3 shorthanded goals and 4 game-winners on 179 shots, converting at 17.32 per cent, and 8 penalty minutes. A career high in every column.

Eight penalty minutes in eighty-two games is one of the lowest rates in this edition.

49.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,065 minutes, the 46th percentile — the best mark of any forward on this roster who was here. His ice went 41-64 against an expectation of 42.08-43.60 — six goals scored above expectation and five fewer conceded.

The Finesse Game

179 attempts at a median of 28 feet, with 32 per cent from inside 20 and 21 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 17.32 per cent against a career 14.19 across 592 shots.

The release is quick off the rush and it goes in from the middle distance, which is the most valuable and least common profile a second-line winger can have. Thirty-one goals from 179 attempts is a rate that will fall; the shooter producing it is real.

28 assists. He is a finisher first and the passing is competent rather than a strength.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 196. He forechecks honestly without punishing anybody and he does not win pucks on the wall against a heavy defenceman.

8 penalty minutes in 82 games and 51 in 287 for his career. He does not agitate, he does not retaliate, and there is essentially nothing unnecessary in the season. He is trusted a man short and has 8 career shorthanded goals in 287 games, which for a scoring winger is unusual.

The Intangibles

A hundred and forty-first overall in 2018 — a fifth-round pick — out of Minsk, and 287 games and 165 points at 26 across two clubs, with a career minus-50.

He was traded here for Tyler Toffoli. A fifth-round pick who scores thirty-one goals and takes eight penalty minutes is the best piece of business on this roster, and on a club that has just traded most of its top end he is now the most important forward under thirty.

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.

  • disciplined· stays out of the box

    0.10 penalty minutes a game over 82, 3rd percentile among forwards

    Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it

  • durable· was available

    82 of 82 games

    Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

  • penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short

    “**He is trusted a man short and has 8 career shorthanded goals in 287 games**, which for a scoring winger is unusual.”

  • agitatorhe lacks it· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation

    “He does not agitate, he does not retaliate, and there is essentially nothing unnecessary in the season.”

  • retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty

    “He does not agitate, he does not retaliate, and there is essentially nothing unnecessary in the season.”

  • wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line

    “He forechecks honestly without punishing anybody and he does not win pucks on the wall against a heavy defenceman.”

  • punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally

    “He forechecks honestly without punishing anybody and he does not win pucks on the wall against a heavy defenceman.”

  • playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes

    “28 assists. He is a finisher first and the passing is competent rather than a strength.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,065 minutes

Expected goals
49.1%
46th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.2%
49th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 41 for, 64 against. Expected: 42.1 and 43.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
51st
Numbers
46th

The 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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 · 82 games

Top speed
22.3 mph
58th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1

Bursts over 20 mph
0.89 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.91 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
94.8 mph
91st pct

one shot; the league's average best is 84.5

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 · 1065 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
CGY took 49.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.1% — 0.8 below the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 1,065 minutes at five-on-five — 67th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Jonathan Huberdeau49.3%48.9%50.7%
MacKenzie Weegar48.7%49.4%51.2%
Rasmus Andersson47.3%50.3%49.0%

49.3% together, 48.9% for him apart and 50.7% for Huberdeau apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

271 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 34 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 33% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.