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Centre · #16

Aleksander Barkov

Florida Panthers
Age
31
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
97 kg
Born
Tampere, FIN
Draft
2013, round 1, #2 (FLA)

Career · 13 seasons

Games
806
Goals
286
Points
782
TOI per game
20:06
xGF% (5v5)
54.5%
Goals above expected
+34.7

Season by season

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

2013–14FLA5481624−317:06879.2%68.053.7%
2014–15FLA71162036−417:3012313.0%711.451.8%
2015–16FLA66283159+1819:2617116.4%1621.651.7%
2016–17FLA61213152+1319:2414214.8%1414.653.1%
2017–18FLA79275178+922:0425610.5%1730.452.6%
2018–19FLA82356196−322:2120617.0%3126.949.1%
2019–20FLA66204262+220:0117211.6%1821.250.2%
2020–21FLA50263258+1220:5617614.8%2021.860.0%
2021–22FLA67394988+3620:1821418.2%2627.158.4%
2022–23FLA68235578+1021:1320811.1%3023.155.0%
2023–24FLA73235780+3319:3819311.9%2925.262.7%
2024–25FLA67205171+120:1514913.4%2819.858.8%
After a break: 2026–27FLA2000014:5420.0%00.172.0%
Total1 team806286496782+12420:062,09913.6%242251.354.5%

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)
00.511.52100200300400500600700800
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Player card

Model-based

How 13 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

99th 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 /601.0689th pct
  • Assists /601.8498th pct
  • ixG /600.9384th pct
  • Goals above expected+34.797th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)54.5%94th pct
  • CF% (5v5)54.2%95th pct
  • Relative xGF%+3.491st pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4187th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game20:0699th pct
  • PP time share60.6%96th pct
  • Offensive zone starts54.6%48th pct
  • Quality of competition25.6%99th 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. Mark StoneOTT/VGK0.96
  2. Elias LindholmCAR/CGY/BOS0.96
  3. Claude GirouxPHI/FLA/OTT0.96
  4. Sidney CrosbyPIT0.96
  5. Leon DraisaitlEDM0.95
  6. Mitch MarnerTOR0.95

Faceoffs

How often Barkov wins the draw over 13 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 2359+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

53.0%

7740–6861 · #56 of 207 regulars, 73rd percentile

Against an average centre

53.8%

Opponents won 50.8% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.2% against them.

Wins above average

+553

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

Draws per game

18.1

14,601 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

50%2924 · +0.958%3913 · +2.747%1487 · +2.260%496 · +1.642%463 · +0.556%523 · +0.948%453 · +0.756%2537 · +1.851%1805 · +2.5Attacking 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 zone54.8% 2958–2444
  • Neutral zone50.5% 2454–2404
  • Defensive zone53.6% 2328–2013

By strength

  • Even strength52.4% 5603–5093
  • Power play58.1% 1527–1103
  • Shorthanded47.9% 610–663

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +18 after a win, −12 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.9 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2013–1481948.8%49.3%
2014–15100246.1%46.3%
2015–16115649.2%49.8%
2016–17102346.5%47.3%
2017–18169753.5%53.9%
2018–19193953.7%54.5%
2019–20120354.3%54.8%
2020–21102654.9%56.0%
2021–22125256.9%58.6%
2022–23133254.9%55.7%
2023–24110057.3%58.0%
2024–25102656.5%57.9%
2026–272653.8%55.3%

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.

+34.7 goals above expected

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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 speed32.6 km/h13th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph19th pct
  • Hardest shot124.7 km/h53rd pct
  • Distance skated8 km20th pct
  • Offensive-zone time49.4%95th 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

36.2 km/h51st pct

▲ +0.1 km/h since 2023–24

3535.53636.53737.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 36.2 km/h, 58th percentile (67 games)2022–23: 36.0 km/h, 51st percentile (68 games)2023–24: 36.1 km/h, 57th percentile (73 games)2024–25: 36.2 km/h, 51st percentile (67 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.057th pct

▲ +0.3 since 2023–24

24681021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 4.7, 45th percentile (67 games)2022–23: 4.3, 43rd percentile (68 games)2023–24: 5.7, 58th percentile (73 games)2024–25: 6.0, 57th percentile (67 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.5 km42nd pct

▲ +0.0 km since 2023–24

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 16.2 km, 85th percentile (67 games)2022–23: 15.5 km, 53rd percentile (68 games)2023–24: 15.5 km, 44th percentile (73 games)2024–25: 15.5 km, 42nd percentile (67 games)

Hardest shot

140.0 km/h50th pct

▼ −1.0 km/h since 2023–24

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 151.7 km/h, 82nd percentile (67 games)2022–23: 148.0 km/h, 73rd percentile (68 games)2023–24: 141.0 km/h, 45th percentile (73 games)2024–25: 140.0 km/h, 50th percentile (67 games)

Offensive-zone time

48.0%98th pct

▼ −0.5 points since 2023–24

38%40%42%44%46%48%50%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 45.5%, 91st percentile (67 games)2022–23: 46.3%, 92nd percentile (68 games)2023–24: 48.5%, 99th percentile (73 games)2024–25: 48.0%, 98th percentile (67 games)