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Pavel Dorofeyev
Vegas Golden Knights Right Wing
35 goals on 254 shots at 24, and the 96th percentile of chances.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | VGK | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 6:30 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | +5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 40 | 17.5 | 14:14 |
| 2023-24 | VGK | 47 | 13 | 11 | 24 | +8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 97 | 13.4 | 13:17 |
| 2024-25 | VGK | 82 | 35 | 17 | 52 | +2 | 30 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 254 | 13.8 | 16:32 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 149 | 55 | 30 | 85 | +14 | 50 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 392 | 14.0 | 15:06 |
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
35 goals and 17 assists in 82 games — 52 points at 16:32 a night, with 13 power-play goals and 7 game-winners on 254 shots, the most on the club, converting at 13.8 per cent.
56.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 96th percentile — the best mark of any forward on the roster. His ice went 35-38 against an expectation of 49.69-37.63 — fifteen goals of scoring missing on a line that was creating at a remarkable rate.
The Finesse Game
254 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 35 per cent from inside 20 and only 16 per cent from beyond 40. The volume is the story: he shoots more than anybody here and from good places, and the release is quick and heavy.
17 assists in 82 games. There is little creation and it does not matter; he is a shooter, and on a power play that finished 3rd in the league he scored 13.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 194 and he does not play a physical game. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks against defencemen.
30 penalty minutes in 82 games is a moderate rate. He is disciplined and largely uninvolved in that half of the game, which on the least-penalised club in the league is the house style.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2019 — 79th overall — out of Magnitogorsk, and 149 NHL games in with 55 goals.
He is 24 and scored 35 in his first full season. On a club whose forwards are 28, 33, 31, 32 and 34, he is the only one under 25 who matters.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,090 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.9%
- 96th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.3%
- 85th 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: 35 for, 38 against. Expected: 49.7 and 37.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 30 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 — 75 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 · 1090 minutes at five-on-five
- Tomas Hertl53%
- Brett Howden30%
- Brandon Saad21%
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
- VGK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.9% — 3.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,090 minutes at five-on-five — 74th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomas Hertl | 57.5% | 56.3% | 54.6% |
| Brayden McNabb | 62.7% | 54.3% | 52.2% |
| Noah Hanifin | 59.7% | 55.5% | 54.5% |
57.5% together, 56.3% for him apart and 54.6% for Hertl 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
359 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 35 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.