Egor Zamula

Philadelphia Flyers Defense

The 89th percentile of chances and fifteen goals conceded above expectation with him on the ice — and only the third-worst figure on his own blue line.

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.

54.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 89th percentile. His ice went 33-45 against an expectation of 35.61-30.20. Fifteen goals were conceded above expectation with him on the ice — and two of his own team-mates were worse, 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 238 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.

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.

disciplined· stays out of the box
0.10 penalty minutes a game over 63, 1st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
undrafteda strength· arrived without a pick attached
“**Undrafted**, and signed out of the Western Hockey League as a 19-year-old free agent in 2019.”
clears-the-creasehe lacks it· moves grown men off the front of his net
“He defends positionally and with his stick rather than with contact, and he is not the man who clears the paint.”
defends-with-reacha strength· takes the puck before the contact happens
“He defends positionally and with his stick rather than with contact, and he is not the man who clears the paint.”
fouls-when-beatena strength· the stick foul that follows losing a step
“**6 penalty minutes in 63 games** is an exceptionally low rate.”
retaliateshe lacks it· answers the cross-check, and takes the second penalty
“He does not foul, he does not retaliate, and he does not get involved after the whistle.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 925 minutes

Expected goals: 54.1%; 86th pct
Shot attempts: 50.2%; 55th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 33 for, 45 against. Expected: 35.6 and 30.2.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

13th

Numbers

86th

The numbers rank him 73 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 63 games

Top speed: 20.2 mph; 9th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.06 a game
Distance: 2.42 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.2 mph; 35th pct

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 · 925 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: PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.1% — 2.0 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	55.8%	52.7%	48.8%
Owen Tippett	54.7%	53.9%	52.6%
Matvei Michkov	46.8%	57.2%	54.6%

55.8% together, 52.7% for him apart and 48.8% 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.