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NIKITA KUCHEROV: SHOOTOUT RECORD

SHOOTER · 2023-24 TO 2025-26

SHOOTER3 OF 9
ATTEMPTS9
GOALS3
RAW RATE33.3%
SHRUNK RATE32.2%
RANKT-58TH OF 117
LEAGUE31.7%

Nikita Kucherov scored on 3 of his 9 shootout attempts from 2023-24 to 2025-26, 33.3%. The league scored on 31.7% of its 1,940. Shrunk toward the league, his rate is 32.2%, tied for 58th of the 117 shooters with seven or more attempts.

SHRUNK is his goals plus 20 attempts at the league's 31.7%, over his attempts plus 20: a short record stays near the league, a long one speaks for itself.

HIS MOVES

SHOTSMOVE
6WRIST · 67%
1BACKHAND · 11%
1SNAP · 11%
1OTHER · 11%

As the NHL's feed records the shot. It has no deke; OTHER is any other shot type, or an attempt that never got a shot off.

SEASONS with an attempt: 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26; his newest attempt was for the Tampa Bay Lightning.

RATING ISN'T THE RECORD

A skater's rating in the game doesn't predict his shootout rate: across the 325 shooters the game rates, the two correlate at 0.007, next to nothing, over these three seasons.

IN THE DUEL

In the duel his shots start from this rate, times the goalie's factor; the move and the goalie's read move it from there.

PLAY THE SHOOTOUT

The duel sends each side's best shooters by this rate first, and in none of its 2025-26 games is he one of the two his team would send at you.