2+2, eight yellows and almost no highlights. How Titkov became Baltika's hidden engine

Opening

If you look only at goals and assists, Nikolai Titkov looks like an ordinary rotation player: scored a couple, set up a couple, picked up some cards, ran around. The RPL has plenty of those. Open the stats, nod, close them.

This text is about why that reading is wrong, and what Titkov actually does for Baltika when nobody is making highlight reels of it.