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Alex Laferriere
Los Angeles Kings Right Wing
19 goals at 23, a 55.7 per cent chance share, and 193 shots from a third line.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | LAK | 81 | 12 | 11 | 23 | -14 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 147 | 8.2 | 13:13 |
| 2024-25 | LAK | 77 | 19 | 23 | 42 | +22 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 193 | 9.8 | 16:32 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 158 | 31 | 34 | 65 | +8 | 66 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 340 | 9.1 | 14:50 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
19 goals and 23 assists in 77 games for 42 points, plus-22, on 16:32 a night and 193 shots.
55.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 93rd percentile. 9.8 per cent conversion on that volume is below what the locations justify — 37 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet — and the goals should come.
The Finesse Game
A high-volume shooter who gets to the interior. 193 shots in sixteen minutes a night is a very high rate for a 23-year-old in a bottom-six role, and it is the most encouraging thing about him.
The hands are good rather than dangerous and 23 assists is functional. He is a finisher who has not started finishing yet, and the shot chart says it is a matter of time.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 205, and he plays hard. He forechecks with weight, goes to the net front, and takes the punishment that comes with shooting from inside the dots.
20 penalty minutes over 77 games is disciplined. Two consecutive seasons above 75 games at 23.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick out of Harvard, two full NHL seasons before turning 24, and a role that has grown every year.
The projection is a 25-goal second-line winger. On a club with an ageing top six, he is one of the two young forwards the next three seasons depend on.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,056 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.7%
- 93rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.6%
- 90th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 50 for, 40 against. Expected: 45.9 and 36.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1056 minutes at five-on-five
- Kevin Fiala59%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- LAK took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.7% — 1.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,056 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Fiala | 56.6% | 54.4% | 59.3% |
| Quinton Byfield | 54.6% | 56.7% | 58.2% |
| Vladislav Gavrikov | 57.4% | 54.9% | 53.5% |
56.6% together, 54.4% for him apart and 59.3% for Fiala apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
297 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.