Egor Zamula
Philadelphia Flyers Defense
The 89th percentile of chances and twenty-three goals conceded above expectation with him on the ice — the widest gap of any defenceman in this book.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | PHI | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 17:04 |
| 2021-22 | PHI | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 16:21 |
| 2022-23 | PHI | 14 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 13:23 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 66 | 5 | 16 | 21 | +3 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 61 | 8.2 | 16:03 |
| 2024-25 | PHI | 63 | 3 | 12 | 15 | -14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 8.1 | 16:31 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 155 | 8 | 32 | 40 | -16 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 115 | 7.0 | 16:02 |
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
3 goals and 12 assists in 63 games — 15 points at 16:31 a night, minus-14, on 6 penalty minutes.
54.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 89th percentile. His ice went 38-54 against an expectation of 36.92-30.74. Twenty-three goals were conceded above expectation with him on the ice — the largest such gap of any defenceman in this edition, on a third pairing that was winning the chances by a distance.
The Finesse Game
37 attempts in 63 games at a median of 58 feet with 79 per cent from beyond 40 and 4 per cent from inside 20. He does not shoot. 3 goals on 37 attempts is a conversion rate that means nothing.
The first pass is his job and he does it reasonably. 12 assists is thin and the club scored 222 goals, so the two facts are not independent.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 200 and light for the frame. He defends positionally and with his stick rather than with contact, and he is not the man who clears the paint.
6 penalty minutes in 63 games is an exceptionally low rate. He does not foul, he does not retaliate, and he does not get involved after the whistle.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, and signed out of the Western Hockey League as a 19-year-old free agent in 2019.
155 NHL games in six seasons, most of them spent on and off the roster. He is 25 and a third-pairing defenceman with a 54.6 per cent chance share is a useful player, whatever the goals column said.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 925 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.6%
- 89th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.1%
- 54th 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: 38 for, 54 against. Expected: 36.9 and 30.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 76 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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 · 925 minutes at five-on-five
- Emil Andrae19%
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
- PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.6% — 2.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 925 minutes at five-on-five — 49th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rasmus Ristolainen | 56.7% | 52.7% | 47.5% |
| Owen Tippett | 55.8% | 54.1% | 52.9% |
| Matvei Michkov | 44.8% | 58.3% | 54.9% |
56.7% together, 52.7% for him apart and 47.5% for Ristolainen apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
57 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 32 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 79% from beyond forty.