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Mikey Anderson
Los Angeles Kings Defense
A 53.8 per cent chance share in the hardest defensive minutes on the club with the best defence in the league.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | LAK | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 11.1 | 18:09 |
| 2020-21 | LAK | 54 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 1.9 | 21:11 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 57 | 2 | 6 | 8 | +6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 3.5 | 20:07 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 77 | 5 | 15 | 20 | +20 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 90 | 5.6 | 21:40 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 74 | 2 | 16 | 18 | +22 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 2.3 | 20:38 |
| 2024-25 | LAK | 77 | 6 | 18 | 24 | +17 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 7.1 | 22:41 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 345 | 17 | 65 | 82 | +69 | 124 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 382 | 4.5 | 21:17 |
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
6 goals and 18 assists in 77 games for 24 points, plus-17, on 22:41 a night — the heaviest workload on the blue line.
55.1 per cent at five-on-five, the 90th percentile, over 1,415 minutes. His on-ice goals were 42-34 against an expected 54.5-44.3, so the finishing ran 13 goals against him while he was defending the other club’s best line.
The Finesse Game
Almost none and none required. 82 per cent of his shots came from beyond 40 feet and 6 goals came from 84 attempts, which is a defenceman keeping pucks alive at the line and nothing more.
18 assists at 23 minutes a night is a low return. The first pass is quick and safe and it is the only part of the puck game that matters here.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 195, and he defends far heavier than that. He boxes out in front of his own net, wins battles below the goal line against bigger forwards, and blocks shots constantly.
28 penalty minutes over 77 games at 23 minutes a night is exceptional and reflects a defenceman who is almost never late.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick, six seasons in one organisation, and a shutdown role on the best defensive club in the league.
At 26 the projection is unchanged and the value is substantial. With Vladislav Gavrikov gone to New York, he becomes the entirety of this blue line’s defensive identity.
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
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.
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
18:23 a game at five-on-five, 91st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
“He boxes out in front of his own net, wins battles below the goal line against bigger forwards, and blocks shots constantly.”
“wins battles below the goal line against bigger forwards”
“blocks shots constantly”
“A fourth-round pick, six seasons in one organisation, and a shutdown role on the best defensive club in the league.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,415 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.1%
- 90th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.4%
- 68th 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: 42 for, 34 against. Expected: 54.5 and 44.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 21.1 mph
- 26th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.12 a game
- Distance
- 3.12 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.9 mph
- 14th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 · 1415 minutes at five-on-five
- Drew Doughty20%
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
- LAK took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.1% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,415 minutes at five-on-five — 96th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vladislav Gavrikov | 55.1% | 55.1% | 55.7% |
| Anze Kopitar | 48.9% | 58.2% | 51.1% |
| Adrian Kempe | 52.5% | 56.4% | 49.6% |
55.1% together, 55.1% for him apart and 55.7% for Gavrikov apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
142 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 36 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 82% from beyond forty.