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Vladislav Gavrikov

1,600 5-on-5 minutes, and 14 goals from the blue line.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2019-20	CBJ	69	5	13	18	+1	18	0	0	1	81	6.2	18:59
2020-21	CBJ	55	2	10	12	-13	14	0	0	1	48	4.2	19:24
2021-22	CBJ	80	5	28	33	-3	68	0	0	1	108	4.6	22:17
2022-23	CBJ/LAK	72	6	13	19	+4	38	0	1	2	89	6.7	21:58
2023-24	LAK	77	6	17	23	+9	28	0	0	1	114	5.3	20:37
2024-25	LAK	82	5	25	30	+26	28	0	0	0	112	4.5	23:05
2025-26	NYR	82	14	21	35	-8	50	3	0	1	119	11.8	23:44
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	517	43	127	170	+16	244	3	1	7	671	6.4	21:36

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

14 goals and 21 assists in all 82 games — 35 points, minus-8, at 23:44 a night with 1,619 5-on-5 minutes, the most on the club and among the most in the league.

The Finesse Game

14 goals from a defenceman is a surprising number and the shot chart says treat it carefully: 191 unblocked attempts from a median of 49 feet with 70 per cent from beyond 40.

14 goals from that distance is a rate no defenceman sustains. 21 assists is the more honest measure of what he does with the puck.

The Physical Game

6-3, 210, and genuinely hard to play against. 50 penalty minutes across 82 games of the hardest minutes on the club, which is disciplined for the workload.

He clears his crease, blocks shots, and closes gaps without lunging.

The Intangibles

49.5 per cent of the expected goals, 50th percentile, with the chances dead level at 60.6 and 61.7 across 1,600 minutes.

Dead average in the most minutes on a club that finished 11th in even-strength expected goals against is a good season, and the minus-8 is the penalty kill rather than him.

He is 30, a 159th overall pick, and the defenceman this club leans on when Fox is hurt — which last season was 27 games.

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

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.

hard-shot· beats a goaltender from range
6 of 134 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 4.5%, 90th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:45 a game at five-on-five, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,619 minutes

Expected goals: 49.5%; 50th pct
Shot attempts: 50.6%; 65th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 53 for, 61 against. Expected: 60.6 and 61.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

50th

The report ranks him 23 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 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, 2025-26 · 82 games

Top speed: 23.0 mph; 93rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.45 a game
Distance: 3.21 miles a game
Hardest shot: 94.3 mph; 74th pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 4 assists, 16 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1619 minutes at five-on-five

Adam Fox54%
Braden Schneider33%

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, 2025-26

The club: NYR took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.5% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,619 minutes at five-on-five — 100th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Adam Fox	55.5%	41.6%	58.7%
Mika Zibanejad	50.5%	49.0%	50.0%
Braden Schneider	41.8%	53.2%	45.2%

55.5% together, 41.6% for him apart and 58.7% for Fox apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Fox and did not follow him.

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

191 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 35 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 70% from beyond forty.