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Christian Dvorak
Philadelphia Flyers Center
Nine seasons, 534 games, and a fourth-line centre signed in the summer to take the hard draws.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | ARI | 78 | 15 | 18 | 33 | +7 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 88 | 17.1 | 15:37 |
| 2017-18 | ARI | 78 | 15 | 22 | 37 | -19 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 151 | 9.9 | 16:26 |
| 2018-19 | ARI | 20 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 8.0 | 14:23 |
| 2019-20 | ARI | 70 | 18 | 20 | 38 | +6 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 134 | 13.4 | 16:42 |
| 2020-21 | ARI | 56 | 17 | 14 | 31 | -11 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 95 | 17.9 | 18:24 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 56 | 11 | 22 | 33 | -19 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 87 | 12.6 | 17:22 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 64 | 10 | 18 | 28 | -12 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 88 | 11.4 | 16:52 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 30 | 5 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 14.3 | 15:32 |
| 2024-25 | MTL | 82 | 12 | 21 | 33 | -5 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 11.5 | 15:15 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 534 | 105 | 144 | 249 | -60 | 120 | 22 | 2 | 12 | 807 | 13.0 | 16:24 |
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
12 goals and 21 assists in 82 games for Montreal — 33 points at 15:15 a night, minus-5, on 16 penalty minutes. It is the first fully healthy season he has played since 2020-21.
Philadelphia signed him in the summer for the bottom of the lineup, on a club that had just lost Scott Laughton, Morgan Frost and Ryan Poehling out of the middle in the space of four months.
The Finesse Game
104 attempts and 12 goals at 11.5 per cent. The shot is functional and the release is quick, and he has scored between 10 and 18 goals in every full season of his career.
The value is the draw and the defensive read. He wins the faceoff that starts the shift, he makes the safe first pass, and 21 assists is what a third-line centre produces when he is not being asked to create.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 190 and neither heavy nor easily removed. He is not a forechecker in the punishing sense and he does not finish checks.
16 penalty minutes in 82 games is a very low rate. He comes back, he can be trusted with a lead, and he kills penalties.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2014, 534 games across two organisations, and a career that lost most of three seasons to shoulder, knee and pectoral injuries between 2021 and 2024.
He is 29. The signing is not interesting and it is exactly what a club that lost three centres in a calendar year needed to do.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- 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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He wins the faceoff that starts the shift, he makes the safe first pass, and 21 assists is what a third-line centre produces when he is not being asked to create.”
“He comes back, he can be trusted with a lead, and he kills penalties.”
“He comes back, he can be trusted with a lead, and he kills penalties.”
“He is not a forechecker in the punishing sense and he does not finish checks.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 958 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.6%
- 40th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.7%
- 16th 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: 32 for, 43 against. Expected: 38.7 and 40.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 15 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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, 2024-25 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 63rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.30 a game
- Distance
- 2.49 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 79.6 mph
- 18th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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
2024-25 with MTL · 958 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, 2024-25
- The club
- MTL took 48.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.6% — level with the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 958 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan Gallagher | 52.7% | 37.4% | 50.3% |
| Josh Anderson | 49.2% | 47.4% | 47.5% |
| Mike Matheson | 45.2% | 50.5% | 47.1% |
52.7% together, 37.4% for him apart and 50.3% for Gallagher apart. He was worse away from Gallagher, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Gallagher did.
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
162 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.