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Andrei Kuzmenko

#62 · Left wing · Pittsburgh Penguins

Born Feb 4, 1996 in Yakutsk, RUS (age 30) · 6'0", 186 lb · Shoots right

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2025-26. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Jonathan Huberdeau CGY · 25 P in 50 GP Alex Newhook MTL · 25 P in 42 GP Adam Gaudette SJS · 25 P in 66 GP Barrett Hayton UTA · 25 P in 67 GP Joel Armia LAK · 25 P in 67 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.

02040602022-23: 74 points7422-232023-24: 46 points4623-242024-25: 37 points3724-252025-26: 25 points2525-262026-27: 0 points026-27

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2022-23 VAN 81 39 35 74 9 8 143 13 0.91 $950K
2023-24 VAN 43 8 13 21 -1 6 63 9 0.49 $5.5M
2023-24 CGY 29 14 11 25 -8 6 58 5 0.86
2024-25 CGY 37 4 11 15 -7 12 39 8 0.41 $5.5M
2024-25 PHI 7 2 3 5 -5 0 13 3 0.71
2024-25 LAK 22 5 12 17 6 2 31 8 0.77
2025-26 LAK 52 13 12 25 -4 16 69 18 0.48 $4.3M
2026-27 PIT 2 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 0.00 $5M
5 seasons Career 273 85 97 182 -11 50 419 65 0.67

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2024-25 LAK 6 3 3 6 -5 4 17 5 1.00
2025-26 LAK 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
2 seasons Playoffs 7 3 3 6 -5 4 17 5 0.86

2025-26 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
52 13 12 25 -4 16 69 18 0.48 18.8 14:55

Contract

$4.3MCap hitends in 2026
$172KCap dollars per point25 points in 52 games
$1.82MCap dollars per goal above replacement2.4 goals above replacement
$2.8MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$1.5MValueworth 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 715 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. It runs through 2025-26, so this is its last season.

Season Cap hit
2025-26 $4.3M

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
Jul 1, 2026 Pittsburgh Penguins New contract 2026-27 to 2026-27 1 $5M $5M
2025-26 to 2025-26 $4.3M
Jan 26, 2023 Vancouver Canucks Extension 2023-24 to 2024-25 2 $11M $5.5M
Jul 13, 2022 Vancouver Canucks Entry-level 2022-23 to 2022-23 1 $1.8M $950K

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 2025-26 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.

2025-26 playoff analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

-0.2Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.2Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.2Even-strength defence+0.0Power play0.0Penalty kill0.0Penalties+0.0

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.

0510152022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Goals 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

36.4Corsi for %4 attempts for, 7 against
-14.3CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
5.3Expected goals for %0.0 expected for, 0.2 against
-49.4xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
37.5Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
0.0Goals for %0 for, 0 against
100.0PDO0.0% shooting + 100.0% saves
0Attempts 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

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Joel Armia · Scott Laughton · Andrei Kuzmenko15:1942.911.60-0
Scott Laughton · Artemi Panarin · Andrei Kuzmenko10:510.00.00-0
Trevor Moore · Quinton Byfield · Andrei Kuzmenko10:390.00.00-0
Anze Kopitar · Adrian Kempe · Andrei Kuzmenko10:23100.00.00-0

The lines 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 lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Feb 25, 2026 vs VGK L 4-6 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 13:35
Feb 5, 2026 @ VGK L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 08:23
Feb 4, 2026 vs SEA L 2-4 2 0 2 0 0 4 0 17:57
Feb 1, 2026 @ CAR L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:05
Jan 31, 2026 @ PHI W 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:09
Jan 29, 2026 @ BUF L 1-4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:39
Jan 27, 2026 @ DET W 3-1 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 14:46
Jan 24, 2026 @ STL W 5-4 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:12
Jan 20, 2026 vs NYR W 4-3 1 0 1 2 0 4 0 16:19
Jan 17, 2026 @ ANA L 1-2 (OT) 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14:20
Jan 16, 2026 vs ANA L 2-3 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:26
Jan 14, 2026 vs VGK L 2-3 (OT) 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 17:44
Jan 12, 2026 vs DAL L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 18:00
Jan 10, 2026 @ EDM W 4-3 (SO) 0 1 1 -1 2 0 0 16:35
Jan 9, 2026 @ WPG L 1-5 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:49
Jan 7, 2026 vs SJS L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 21:46
Jan 5, 2026 vs MIN W 4-2 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 13:33
Jan 3, 2026 vs MIN W 5-4 (SO) 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 13:59
Jan 1, 2026 vs TBL L 3-5 1 1 2 -2 0 1 0 16:47
Dec 29, 2025 @ COL L 2-5 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 15:46
Dec 27, 2025 vs ANA W 6-1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14:52
Dec 23, 2025 vs SEA L 2-3 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 15:14
Dec 22, 2025 vs CBJ L 1-3 1 0 1 1 2 3 0 15:16
Dec 18, 2025 @ TBL W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:20
Dec 17, 2025 @ FLA L 2-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:48
Dec 15, 2025 @ DAL L 1-4 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 17:18
Dec 8, 2025 @ UTA W 4-2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 06:58
Dec 6, 2025 vs CHI W 6-0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 12:03
Dec 4, 2025 vs CHI L 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:45
Dec 2, 2025 vs WSH L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 14:41
Nov 29, 2025 vs VAN W 2-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:45
Nov 28, 2025 @ ANA L 4-5 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:45
Nov 24, 2025 vs OTT W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:41
Nov 21, 2025 vs BOS L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 17:00
Nov 20, 2025 @ SJS L 3-4 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:47
Nov 11, 2025 @ MTL W 5-1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 07:32
Nov 9, 2025 @ PIT W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 07:50
Nov 6, 2025 vs FLA L 2-5 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 15:19
Nov 4, 2025 vs WPG W 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 15:05
Nov 1, 2025 vs NJD L 1-4 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 17:11
Oct 30, 2025 vs DET L 3-4 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:32
Oct 28, 2025 @ SJS W 4-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:25
Oct 26, 2025 @ CHI W 3-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 13:35
Oct 25, 2025 @ NSH L 4-5 (SO) 0 1 1 -1 0 3 2 18:26
Oct 23, 2025 @ DAL W 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:18
Oct 21, 2025 @ STL W 2-1 (OT) 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 14:52
Oct 18, 2025 vs CAR L 3-4 (OT) 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 11:04
Oct 16, 2025 vs PIT L 2-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 18:42
Oct 13, 2025 @ MIN L 3-4 (SO) 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 18:00
Oct 11, 2025 @ WPG L 2-3 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 20:05
Oct 8, 2025 @ VGK W 6-5 (SO) 1 1 2 1 0 2 2 15:52
Oct 7, 2025 vs COL L 1-4 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 14:46