Ivan Ivan
Colorado Avalanche Center
An undrafted 23-year-old Czech who played 40 NHL games and looked like he belonged in about 30 of them.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | COL | 40 | 5 | 3 | 8 | -9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 14.7 | 10:02 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 40 | 5 | 3 | 8 | -9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 14.7 | 10:02 |
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
5 goals and 3 assists in 40 games for 8 points, minus-9, on 10:02 a night — his first NHL season.
49.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 49th percentile, in the smallest role on the roster. His on-ice goals were 21-23 against an expected 12-13, so both ends ran hot: a 40-game sample in fourth-line minutes says very little either way.
The Finesse Game
A centre who works. The skating is quick enough for a bottom-six job and the puck skills are tidier than a fourth-liner’s usually are — 52 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet, which for a rookie in these minutes means he is getting to the middle rather than hanging on the wall.
5 goals on 34 shots is a small enough sample to mean nothing. The shot itself is ordinary.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 190, and willing without being heavy. He finishes checks, supports the puck, and does not get pushed off it, but there is no physical edge here that will win him minutes.
8 penalty minutes over 40 games. Nothing careless.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of the Czech league, an AHL season, and 40 NHL games at 23 — a career that only happens to players who are difficult to send down.
The realistic projection is a fourth-line centre, and the realistic risk is that a contending club has no room for a 23-year-old learning the job. He needs an injury or a trade to get a real season.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 363 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.7%
- 50th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.5%
- 69th 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: 21 for, 23 against. Expected: 12.5 and 12.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 156 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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 · 363 minutes at five-on-five
- Nikolai Kovalenkooff the roster21%
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
- COL took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.7% — 3.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 363 minutes at five-on-five — 9th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Girard | 52.3% | 47.9% | 53.6% |
| Sam Malinski | 48.9% | 50.2% | 50.1% |
| Calvin de Haan | 43.9% | 52.3% | 51.5% |
52.3% together, 47.9% for him apart and 53.6% for Girard apart. He was worse away from Girard, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Girard did.
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
48 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 52% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.