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Egor Zamula
Philadelphia Flyers Defense
Undrafted out of Chelyabinsk, and two per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 92 | 5 | 20 | 25 | -2 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 78 | 6.4 | 15:42 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
66 games, 5 goals and 16 assists for 21 points, 2 on the power play, 32 penalty minutes, 16:03 a night and plus-3, with 1 game-winner. He took 49.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 951 minutes, the 46th percentile, and his ice went 37-37 against an expectation of 34.43-35.57.
Three goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and one more conceded than they called for. Twenty-one points is a career high by seventeen, and the 46th percentile is the lowest share of the four defencemen who played more than nine hundred minutes.
The Finesse Game
93 attempts at a median of 52 feet with 83 per cent of them from beyond forty and 2 per cent from inside twenty, 61 of those on goal, converted at 8.2 per cent against a career 6.41 across 78 shots.
20 career assists in 92 games. He moves the puck cleanly and runs a second power-play unit adequately; two per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet says he has no interest in the middle of the ice at either end.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 200 and took 32 penalty minutes.
38 career penalty minutes in 92 games. He is tall without being heavy and defends with his stick rather than his body; he does not clear a crease and is moved off pucks below the goal line by forwards his own size.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Chelyabinsk, four seasons and 92 games at 24, all of them in Philadelphia.
He took four years and 26 NHL games to reach a full season and then produced 21 points in it. An undrafted defenceman who plays sixteen minutes a night is already worth more than he cost.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
82.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- hard-shot· beats a goaltender from range
5 of 77 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 6.5%, 99th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it
“Undrafted, out of Chelyabinsk, four seasons and 92 games at 24, all of them in Philadelphia.”
“He is tall without being heavy and defends with his stick rather than his body; he does not clear a crease and is moved off pucks below the goal line by forwards his own size.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 951 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.2%
- 47th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.9%
- 78th 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: 37 for, 37 against. Expected: 34.4 and 35.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 41 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 56 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, 2023-24 · 66 games
- Top speed
- 20.6 mph
- 11th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.12 a game
- Distance
- 2.31 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.8 mph
- 64th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 · 951 minutes at five-on-five
- Erik Johnson18%
- Marc Staaloff the roster13%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- PHI took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.2% — 3.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 951 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Tippett | 55.2% | 46.7% | 51.3% |
| Scott Laughton | 38.1% | 53.8% | 47.4% |
| Tyson Foerster | 47.5% | 49.8% | 57.2% |
55.2% together, 46.7% for him apart and 51.3% for Tippett 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
93 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 49 feet. 2% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 83% from beyond forty.