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Left wing · #89

Pavel Buchnevich

New York Rangers St. Louis Blues(traded during the season)
Age
31
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
92 kg
Born
Cherepovets, RUS
Draft
2013, round 3, #75 (NYR)

Career · 2016–17 to 2026–27

Games
678
Goals
202
Points
507
TOI per game
17:34
xGF% (5v5)
50.7%
Goals above expected
+20.5
ShowAll teamsNew York RangersSt. Louis Blues

Season by season

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

2016–17NYR4181220+613:165514.5%37.153.1%
2017–18NYR74142943−315:0113610.3%1714.249.9%
2018–19NYR64211738−1015:1011917.6%1213.847.0%
2019–20NYR68163046+216:5614810.8%918.552.0%
2020–21NYR54202848+1218:4412016.7%814.951.0%
2021–22STL73304676+2918:1819915.1%1922.552.7%
2022–23STL63264167+1419:2712321.1%2116.248.4%
2023–24STL80273663+319:4920713.0%1830.350.2%
2024–25STL76203757+1019:0214513.8%1223.252.2%
2025–26STL81202848−1017:5614214.1%1520.051.1%
2026–27STL4011+117:3350.0%10.760.7%
Total2 teams678202305507+5417:341,39914.4%135181.550.7%

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)
00.511.52100200300400500600
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Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

92nd 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

1st line
  • Goals /601.0285th pct
  • Assists /601.5492nd pct
  • ixG /600.9179th pct
  • Goals above expected+20.594th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)50.7%71st pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.5%60th pct
  • Relative xGF%+3.993rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0850th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game17:3490th pct
  • PP time share51.0%87th pct
  • Offensive zone starts56.9%55th pct
  • Quality of competition25.1%89th 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. Leon DraisaitlEDM0.93
  2. Ryan Nugent-HopkinsEDM0.93
  3. Artemi PanarinCBJ/NYR/LAK0.93
  4. Travis KonecnyPHI0.93
  5. Mark StoneOTT/VGK0.93
  6. Logan CooleyARI/UTA0.92

Faceoffs

How often Buchnevich wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1951+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

34.6%

365–691 · below the 1951 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

34.6%

Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.

Wins above average

−163

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

Draws per game

3.6

1,056 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

30%195 · +0.240%272 · +1.629%177 · +1.639%28 · +3.730%33 · 0.038%39 · +0.227%33 · +1.745%134 · +2.328%145 · −0.5Attacking 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 zone35.6% 160–289
  • Neutral zone31.7% 104–224
  • Defensive zone36.2% 101–178

By strength

  • Even strength34.3% 331–633
  • Power play44.4% 24–30
  • Shorthanded26.3% 10–28

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +13 after a win, −13 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–17714.3%12.9%
2017–184626.1%27.6%
2018–192528.0%27.9%
2019–202317.4%17.1%
2020–211822.2%21.8%
2021–223933.3%33.6%
2022–2321429.9%29.4%
2023–2420637.4%37.1%
2024–2522837.3%38.9%
2025–2624739.7%38.8%
2026–2730.0%-5.3%

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.

+20.5 goals above expected

050100150200100200300400500600Game

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

−500+50+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed33.7 km/h37th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph336th pct
  • Hardest shot104.6 km/h18th pct
  • Distance skated13 km62nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.9%29th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

34.7 km/h10th pct

▼ −1.1 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.6 km/h, 73rd percentile (73 games)2022–23: 35.9 km/h, 45th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 37.3 km/h, 89th percentile (80 games)2024–25: 35.8 km/h, 36th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 34.7 km/h, 10th percentile (81 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.615th pct

▲ +0.9 since 2024–25

024681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 3.3, 25th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 2.5, 19th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 2.8, 18th percentile (80 games)2024–25: 1.7, 7th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 2.6, 15th percentile (81 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.6 km56th pct

▲ +0.4 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.6 km, 48th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 15.2 km, 38th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 15.0 km, 22nd percentile (80 games)2024–25: 15.3 km, 25th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 15.6 km, 56th percentile (81 games)

Hardest shot

143.0 km/h71st pct

▼ −1.0 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 149.0 km/h, 73rd percentile (73 games)2022–23: 144.8 km/h, 58th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 152.1 km/h, 87th percentile (80 games)2024–25: 144.1 km/h, 70th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 143.0 km/h, 71st percentile (81 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.9%63rd pct

▼ −1.1 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 42.1%, 56th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 41.8%, 49th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 43.5%, 72nd percentile (80 games)2024–25: 44.0%, 77th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 42.9%, 63rd percentile (81 games)