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Anton Volchenkov

#20 · Defence · Nashville Predators

Born Feb 25, 1982 in Moscow, RUS · 6'1", 220 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 21st overall in 2000 by OTT (round 1)

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 2014-15. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Tim Erixon TOR · 7 P in 42 GP Kevan Miller BOS · 7 P in 41 GP Brian Strait NYI · 7 P in 52 GP Mark Barberio TBL · 7 P in 52 GP Stephane Robidas TOR · 7 P in 52 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

0510152002-03: 16 points1602-032003-04: 3 points303-042005-06: 17 points1705-062006-07: 19 points1906-072007-08: 15 points1507-082008-09: 10 points1008-092009-10: 14 points1409-102010-11: 8 points810-112011-12: 11 points1111-122012-13: 5 points512-132013-14: 8 points813-142014-15: 7 points714-15

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2002-03 OTT 57 3 13 16 -4 40 75 59 0.28
2003-04 OTT 19 1 2 3 1 8 15 29 0.16
2005-06 OTT 75 4 13 17 21 53 82 139 0.23
2006-07 OTT 78 1 18 19 37 67 85 205 0.24
2007-08 OTT 67 1 14 15 14 55 71 153 0.22
2008-09 OTT 68 2 8 10 -10 36 79 182 0.15
2009-10 OTT 64 4 10 14 2 38 69 153 0.22
2010-11 NJD 57 0 8 8 3 36 65 125 0.14
2011-12 NJD 72 2 9 11 3 34 63 177 0.15
2012-13 NJD 37 1 4 5 -1 37 38 51 0.14 $4.25M
2013-14 NJD 56 0 8 8 3 20 42 129 0.14 $4.25M
2014-15 NSH 46 0 7 7 4 14 35 93 0.15 $1M
12 seasons Career 696 19 114 133 73 438 719 1495 0.19

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2002-03 OTT 17 1 1 2 3 4 17 34 0.12
2003-04 OTT 5 0 0 0 0 6 4 10 0.00
2005-06 OTT 9 0 4 4 1 8 10 14 0.44
2006-07 OTT 20 2 4 6 -2 24 18 50 0.30
2007-08 OTT 4 0 1 1 0 2 1 10 0.25
2009-10 OTT 6 0 2 2 -2 4 2 13 0.33
2011-12 NJD 24 1 1 2 7 10 16 57 0.08
2014-15 NSH 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0.00
8 seasons Playoffs 86 4 13 17 7 60 68 188 0.20

2014-15 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
46 0 7 7 4 14 35 93 0.15 0.0 13:11

Contract

$1MCap hit2014-15
$143KCap dollars per point7 points in 46 games
$3.812MCap dollars per goal above replacement0.3 goals above replacement
$708KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$292KValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 649 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. When it ends is not known.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2014-15 to 2014-15 $1M
2012-13 to 2013-14 $4.25M

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2014-15 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2014-15 playoff analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

0.0Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.1Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence0.0Even-strength defence+0.1Power play0.0Penalty kill+0.0Penalties-0.2

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. A playoff run is too short to rank anyone on. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

02462010-112011-122012-132013-142014-15Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

54.5Corsi for %12 attempts for, 10 against
+8.8CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
66.8Expected goals for %0.6 expected for, 0.3 against
+19.4xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
42.9Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
50.0Goals for %1 for, 1 against
103.3PDO20.0% shooting + 83.3% saves
1Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Defence pairGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Anton Volchenkov · Seth Jones113:0254.566.81-1
Anton Volchenkov · Ryan Ellis10:240.00.00-0

The pairs he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's pairs that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took in these playoffs, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 11, 2015 @ DAL L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 17:04
Mar 31, 2015 vs VAN L 4-5 (SO) 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 10:57
Mar 29, 2015 vs CGY L 2-5 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 14:09
Mar 28, 2015 @ WSH W 4-3 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 14:12
Feb 12, 2015 vs WPG W 3-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:26
Feb 10, 2015 vs TBL W 3-2 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 18:44
Feb 8, 2015 @ FLA W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11:30
Feb 7, 2015 vs NYR W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 10:31
Feb 5, 2015 vs ANA L 2-5 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 13:08
Feb 3, 2015 vs TOR W 4-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 13:45
Feb 1, 2015 @ PIT W 4-0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 11:54
Jan 30, 2015 @ COL L 0-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:35
Jan 29, 2015 @ STL L 4-5 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:29
Jan 27, 2015 vs COL W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 13:56
Jan 20, 2015 @ MTL L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:00
Jan 16, 2015 vs WSH W 4-3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 12:01
Jan 13, 2015 vs VAN W 5-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 13:05
Jan 10, 2015 @ MIN W 3-1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 09:53
Jan 4, 2015 @ ANA L 3-4 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 13:21
Jan 3, 2015 @ LAK W 7-6 (OT) 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 14:23
Dec 30, 2014 vs STL W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:44
Dec 16, 2014 vs BOS W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:56
Dec 13, 2014 @ SJS L 0-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:24
Dec 11, 2014 @ ARI W 5-1 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 15:38
Dec 9, 2014 @ COL W 3-0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 10:03
Dec 4, 2014 vs STL W 4-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:18
Dec 2, 2014 @ CAR L 1-2 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 13:24
Nov 29, 2014 vs CBJ W 2-1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 13:09
Nov 27, 2014 vs EDM W 1-0 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:25
Nov 25, 2014 vs LAK W 4-3 (SO) 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 14:14
Nov 22, 2014 vs FLA W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:04
Nov 20, 2014 @ OTT L 2-3 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 12:49
Nov 18, 2014 @ TOR W 9-2 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 15:08
Nov 15, 2014 vs WPG W 2-1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 15:13
Nov 13, 2014 @ STL L 3-4 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 12:28
Nov 11, 2014 vs EDM W 3-2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 14:50
Oct 31, 2014 @ CGY L 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:16
Oct 29, 2014 @ EDM W 4-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 14:24
Oct 25, 2014 vs PIT L 0-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:47
Oct 23, 2014 vs CHI W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11:53
Oct 21, 2014 vs ARI W 4-3 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:34
Oct 18, 2014 @ CHI L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 14:57
Oct 17, 2014 @ WPG W 2-0 0 2 2 2 2 1 2 13:04
Oct 14, 2014 vs CGY L 2-3 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:16
Oct 11, 2014 vs DAL W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 14:38
Oct 9, 2014 vs OTT W 3-2 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 15:33