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Arthur Kaliyev
Los Angeles Kings Right Wing
The 12th-most shots per 60 of 393 forwards at 12:39 a night, off the 5th-percentile slot share and the hardest shot on the club.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | LAK | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.0 | 14:42 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 80 | 14 | 13 | 27 | -3 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 194 | 7.2 | 12:39 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 81 | 15 | 13 | 28 | -4 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 195 | 7.7 | 12:41 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
14 goals and 13 assists in eighty games at 12:39 a night, at 21, in his first real NHL season. Minus-3. Thirty-third overall in 2019.
12:39 is the 19th percentile among forwards and he played not one second short-handed, so what follows is a fourth-line workload with a first-line shot rate inside it.
The Finesse Game
11.50 shots per 60 is the 12th-most of the 393 qualified forwards in the league. At twelve and a half minutes a night. That is the whole player in one number.
Where they came from is the caution. 36 per cent from the slot is the 5th percentile and a 31-foot median is the 92nd — he shoots from outside, constantly, and 7.2 per cent is the 13th percentile. The engine is 98.8 mph, the 14th-hardest of the 365 forwards the tracking covers and the hardest on this roster.
1.26 even-strength points per 60 is the 20th percentile and a third of his points came on the power play. 58.3 per cent of the attempts is the 13th-highest of 393 forwards and 56.5 per cent of the expected goals is the 89th percentile — his ice wins, and it wins in soft minutes: 58.2 per cent of his end-zone starts came in the attacking end, more than five-sixths of the league.
The Physical Game
1.84 hits per 60 is the 18th percentile and 0.71 blocks the 5th. He is 6-2 and 212 and does none of it.
0.36 penalties drawn per 60 is the 8th percentile against 0.77 taken, and the net is the 10th. He neither forces contact nor benefits from it.
The Intangibles
23.3 mph is the 91st percentile and 10.08 miles per 60 the 88th — he is quick and he covers ground, which is not what a perimeter shot chart would predict.
The profile is one of the clearest in the edition. A 21-year-old taking the twelfth-most shots per 60 in hockey, with the fifth-smallest slot share and the fourteenth-hardest release, on a fourth line. Everything here says the tool is real and the location is wrong.
What no data can say is whether a club teaches him to shoot from twelve feet closer, or whether he is what he is. The upside case does not require him to change: at 11.50 shots per 60, an average shooting percentage is a twenty-five-goal season.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
30.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 862 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.5%
- 92nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 58.3%
- 98th 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: 34 for, 30 against. Expected: 38.0 and 29.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 75 points above where the report does. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 53 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2021-22 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 23.3 mph
- 94th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.86 a game
- Distance
- 2.13 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 98.8 mph
- 98th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2021-22 · 862 minutes at five-on-five
- Trevor Moore17%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- LAK took 52.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.5% — 3.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 862 minutes at five-on-five — 46th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blake Lizotte | 53.7% | 59.1% | 49.5% |
| Brendan Lemieux | 55.5% | 57.2% | 50.2% |
| Sean Durzi | 60.4% | 54.4% | 48.5% |
53.7% together, 59.1% for him apart and 49.5% for Lizotte apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Lizotte behind.
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
250 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 27% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.