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Arthur Kaliyev
Los Angeles Kings Right Wing
Eight of his thirteen goals came on the power play, and the 93rd percentile for registered shot speed.
| 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 | LAK | 56 | 13 | 15 | 28 | -5 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 122 | 10.7 | 11:41 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 137 | 28 | 28 | 56 | -9 | 49 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 317 | 8.8 | 12:16 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
13 goals and 15 assists in 56 games — 28 points — at 11:41 a night, with eight of the goals on the power play. Minus-5, 122 shots at 10.7 per cent, 12 penalty minutes.
Eight power-play goals out of thirteen, from a man who plays under twelve minutes. That is the report: he is a first-unit shooter who has not held an even-strength job.
50.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 57th percentile — the second-lowest of any Los Angeles forward in this chapter — with his ice at 25-24 against an expectation of 23.41-22.81 across 545 minutes.
Three seasons, 137 games, 56 points.
The Finesse Game
122 shots at a median of 27 feet, 31 per cent from inside twenty and 16 per cent from beyond forty.
Beyond forty: 23 shots on goal and no goals. Inside forty: 97 shots, 13 goals, 13.40 per cent.
One hundred and twenty-two shots from 11:41 a night is the highest shot rate per minute of any Los Angeles forward. He shoots the moment the puck arrives, which is what a club wants from a power-play winger and is part of why the even-strength minutes have not come.
98.3 mph at the 93rd percentile, on twenty slap shots — a genuinely heavy shot and enough volume for the reading to carry weight. The shot is the asset and everything else in this report is the cost of it.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 212, and twelve penalty minutes in fifty-six games.
Top speed 22.6 mph, the 69th percentile; bursts 0.8 a game, the 42nd; 1.86 miles a game, the 10th.
He does not forecheck, does not finish checks and does not win pucks along the wall. On a club whose entire identity is the second-best expected-goals-against rate in the league, that is a difficult thing to be, and it is why a twenty-two-year-old with 98 mph on the shot plays eleven minutes.
The Intangibles
Thirty-third overall in 2019 out of Hamilton, where he scored 51 goals in a junior season.
60.8 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 92nd percentile.
The shot is a real NHL asset and the rest of the game is not there yet. Los Angeles is one of the least forgiving places in the league for a player in that position, and the honest projection is either twenty-five goals somewhere else or a career of eleven-minute nights.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
61% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“He does not forecheck, does not finish checks and does not win pucks along the wall.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 545 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.6%
- 57th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.1%
- 80th 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: 25 for, 24 against. Expected: 23.4 and 22.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 28 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 638 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 61 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, 2022-23 · 56 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 73rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.79 a game
- Distance
- 1.86 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 98.3 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 84.9
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
2022-23 · 545 minutes at five-on-five
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, 2022-23
- The club
- LAK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.6% — 2.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 545 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blake Lizotte | 48.7% | 51.8% | 55.2% |
| Sean Walker | 49.6% | 51.2% | 52.3% |
| Rasmus Kupari | 53.5% | 49.2% | 50.8% |
48.7% together, 51.8% for him apart and 55.2% for Lizotte apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
168 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.