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Dalibor Dvorsky

Photo by Mike Zitek/AHL, CC BY 2.0

Dalibor Dvorsky

St. Louis Blues Right Wing #15

21 years old, 12 goals, and 5 of them on the power play.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2024-25STL20000000020.09:25
2025-26STL7112921-6265009312.914:20
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—7312921-6265009512.614:12

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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 9 assists in 71 games — 21 points, minus-6, at 14:20 a night with 5 power-play goals and 26 penalty minutes. His first full professional season.

He turned 21 in June.

The Finesse Game

The shot is the tool and it is a good one — a heavy, accurate release that already scores on NHL goaltenders. 139 unblocked attempts, 13 goals, median 26 feet with 31 per cent from inside 20.

5 of his 12 goals came on the power play, which for a 21-year-old says the club already trusts the shot in the one place it can be set up.

9 assists in 71 games is thin and it is the part that has to come.

The Physical Game

6-1, 207, and solidly built for the age. 26 penalty minutes.

He is willing on the wall and does not yet win there consistently. The skating is the limitation and was the knock on him at the draft.

The Intangibles

47.0 per cent of the expected goals, 29th percentile, and 47.1 per cent of the shot attempts, 27th, across 876 minutes, with the goals 29-36 against.

That is a respectable underlying season for a first-year player given 14 minutes a night.

4 points in his last 10. He is 21, the tenth pick in 2023, and the third of 3 young forwards — with Snuggerud and Neighbours — that this club is actually building around.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 876 minutes

Expected goals
47%
29th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47.1%
28th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 29 for, 36 against. Expected: 30.0 and 33.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
61st
Numbers
29th

The report ranks him 32 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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, 2025-26 · 71 games

Top speed
21.6 mph
23rd pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
0.21 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.28 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
89.8 mph
83rd pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

4

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 2 assists, 20 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 876 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, 2025-26

The club
STL took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.0% — 3.2 below the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 876 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Cam Fowler44.7%48.6%50.4%
Philip Broberg54.1%43.7%51.2%
Logan Mailloux45.8%47.4%49.0%

44.7% together, 48.6% for him apart and 50.4% for Fowler 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

139 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.