Rodrigo Abols
Philadelphia Flyers Center
A 29-year-old rookie from Latvia who took 51 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | PHI | 22 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 8.0 | 9:11 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 22 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 8.0 | 9:11 |
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
2 goals and 3 assists in 22 games — 5 points at 9:11 a night, minus-10, on 4 penalty minutes. They were the first NHL games of his life, at 29.
50.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 56th percentile, across 201 minutes. His ice went 3-13 against an expectation of 8.42-8.30, which on that sample is a goaltending statistic and nothing else.
The Finesse Game
25 attempts at a median of 18 feet with 51 per cent of them from inside 20 — the shortest shot profile of any forward here. He gets to the net and takes what is available in the paint.
There is very little skill beyond that. 3 assists in 22 games, and the passing is limited to the simple option.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 206 and a genuinely large body in the middle of the ice. He forechecks properly, he protects the puck below the goal line, and he is difficult to move once he is set.
4 penalty minutes in 22 games. He is disciplined and he is not an agitator; the size is used structurally rather than to provoke.
The Intangibles
A seventh-round pick of Vancouver in 2016 who never signed, spent eight seasons in Sweden and Finland, and came to North America at 28.
Twenty-two NHL games at 29. He is a fourth-line centre and a thirteenth forward, and the only thing worth saying about the file is that almost nobody gets here that way.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 201 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.4%
- 57th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.4%
- 36th 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: 3 for, 13 against. Expected: 8.4 and 8.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 40 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 — 66 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 · 201 minutes at five-on-five
- Olle Lycksellnow OTT28%
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
- PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.4% — 1.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 201 minutes at five-on-five — 0th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Deslauriers | 42.4% | 56.7% | 44.4% |
| Jamie Drysdale | 32.9% | 61.3% | 50.9% |
| Travis Sanheim | 64.6% | 38.0% | 53.1% |
42.4% together, 56.7% for him apart and 44.4% for Deslauriers apart. He was better away from Deslauriers, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Deslauriers.
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
35 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 50 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.