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Gabriel Vilardi
Winnipeg Jets Center
Sixty-two per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet — the most net-front profile on the roster — and 27 goals in 71 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | LAK | 10 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 15.8 | 12:51 |
| 2020-21 | LAK | 54 | 10 | 13 | 23 | -8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 65 | 15.4 | 14:45 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 25 | 5 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 12.2 | 13:31 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 63 | 23 | 18 | 41 | +10 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 122 | 18.9 | 15:36 |
| 2023-24 | WPG | 47 | 22 | 14 | 36 | +11 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 117 | 18.8 | 17:00 |
| 2024-25 | WPG | 71 | 27 | 34 | 61 | +9 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 130 | 20.8 | 18:08 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 270 | 90 | 85 | 175 | +17 | 64 | 32 | 0 | 21 | 494 | 18.2 | 16:03 |
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
27 goals and 34 assists in 71 games — 61 points at 18:08 a night, plus-9, with 12 power-play goals and 6 game-winners on 130 shots, converting at 20.8 per cent, and 14 penalty minutes.
50.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 56th percentile. His ice went 37-19 against an expectation of 43.15-42.40 — six goals of scoring missing and twenty-three fewer conceded.
The Finesse Game
130 attempts at a median of 16 feet with 62 per cent from inside 20 and 8 per cent from beyond 40 — the most net-front shot profile on this roster and one of the most in the edition — converting at 20.8 per cent.
34 assists in 71 games. He is 6-3 and 216 and he stands where a goaltender needs to see through him, and the hands in tight are good enough to make the tip and the rebound count.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 216 and he is very difficult to move out of the blue paint. He establishes position and stays, and he wins pucks below the goal line by leaning on people rather than by chasing them.
14 penalty minutes in 71 games is a very low total for a player who spends the night in the crease. He does not retaliate and he is not an agitator.
The Intangibles
Eleventh overall in 2017 by Los Angeles and 270 games and 175 points — a top-ten talent whose first four professional years were largely taken by a back injury that had no clean diagnosis.
He is 26 and came here in the Pierre-Luc Dubois trade. Ninety goals in 270 games is the record of a player whose body finally allowed it.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,063 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.4%
- 57th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.1%
- 33rd 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, 19 against. Expected: 43.1 and 42.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 23 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 78 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 · 1063 minutes at five-on-five
- Kyle Connor89%
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
- WPG took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.4% — 1.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,063 minutes at five-on-five — 70th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Connor | 51.1% | 43.2% | 47.8% |
| Josh Morrissey | 56.6% | 44.6% | 52.4% |
| Dylan DeMelo | 52.3% | 49.2% | 53.1% |
51.1% together, 43.2% for him apart and 47.8% for Connor 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
185 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 27 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 62% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.