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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.
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 38 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 437 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.
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.