Gabriel Vilardi

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

47 games, 22 goals and 14 assists for 36 points, 9 on the power play, 14 penalty minutes, 17:00 a night and plus-11, with 5 game-winners. He took 49.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 630 minutes, the 51st percentile, and his ice went 36-24 against an expectation of 27.61-27.79.

Eight goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and four goals of goaltending above them. Twenty-two goals in 47 games at 18.8 per cent is a rate that will not hold and a location that will.

The Finesse Game

155 attempts at a median of 11 feet with 71 per cent of them from inside twenty and 7 per cent from beyond forty, 115 of those on goal, converted at 18.8 per cent against a career 17.31 across 364 shots.

Sixty-three career goals and 20 power-play goals in 199 games. A ten-and-a-half-foot median attempt with seventy-one per cent of them from inside twenty feet is the closest chart of anybody in this edition who took a hundred attempts; at 6-3 and 216 he stands in the paint and puts back whatever arrives.

The Physical Game

He is 6-3 and 216 and took 14 penalty minutes.

Fifty career penalty minutes in 199 games. He is large and holds his ground in the crease against defencemen who are paid to move him, and he does it without ever retaliating.

The Intangibles

Eleventh overall in 2017 by Los Angeles, five seasons, and Winnipeg is his second organisation.

A career plus-8 and 15 game-winners in 199 games. He is 25, he has never played more than 63 games in a season, and he has scored 23 goals in Los Angeles and 22 here in the last two.