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Left wing · #86

Nikolay Kulemin

Toronto Maple Leafs New York Islanders(traded during the season)
Age
40
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
103 kg
Born
Magnitogorsk, RUS
Draft
2006, round 2, #44 (TOR)

Career · 2009–10 to 2017–18

Games
596
Goals
106
Points
243
TOI per game
15:27
xGF% (5v5)
48.8%
Goals above expected
+3.0
ShowAll teamsToronto Maple LeafsNew York Islanders

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2009–10TOR78162036016:2214511.0%217.0–
2010–11TOR82302757+717:1917317.3%1319.250.9%
2011–12TOR7072128+215:131076.5%513.049.7%
2012–13TOR4871623−516:44729.7%06.440.4%
2013–14TOR7091120−416:138111.1%08.345.6%
2014–15NYI82151631+714:5211513.0%016.655.0%
2015–16NYI8191322+1314:04929.8%010.947.0%
2016–17NYI72121123+313:497416.2%210.748.8%
2017–18NYI13123011:56714.3%00.948.0%
Total2 teams596106137243+2315:2786612.2%22103.048.8%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.811.2100200300400500
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Player card

Model-based

How 2009–10 to 2017–18 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

61st percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd line
  • Goals /600.6954th pct
  • Assists /600.8954th pct
  • ixG /600.6747th pct
  • Goals above expected+3.074th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.8%46th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.0%37th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.564th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.2669th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game15:2769th pct
  • PP time share12.3%43rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts42.6%19th pct
  • Quality of competition24.7%75th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Matt CookePIT/MIN0.85
  2. Max TalbotPIT/PHI/COL/BOS0.80
  3. Jesper FastNYR0.80
  4. Jean-Gabriel PageauOTT0.78
  5. Chris KellyOTT/BOS0.78
  6. Paul ByronBUF/CGY/MTL0.78

Faceoffs

How often Kulemin wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2017–18, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1739+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

42.6%

214–288 · below the 1739 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

43.1%

Opponents won 50.4% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.6% against them.

Wins above average

−35

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

2.0

502 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

38%40 · +0.550%98 · +0.750%106 · +3.725%12 · −0.647%19 · +12.043%30 · −3.041%22 · −0.938%97 · −0.633%78 · −0.4Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone50.0% 101–101
  • Neutral zone39.8% 49–74
  • Defensive zone36.2% 64–113

By strength

  • Even strength43.3% 169–221
  • Power play52.5% 21–19
  • Shorthanded33.3% 24–48

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +7 after a win, −16 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–106540.0%41.4%
2010–1111154.1%55.3%
2011–127841.0%41.6%
2012–132050.0%50.3%
2013–1410835.2%35.2%
2014–152429.2%27.9%
2015–165939.0%38.8%
2016–172751.9%51.7%
2017–181040.0%39.0%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+3.0 goals above expected

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Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−500+50+100