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Vladislav Gavrikov
Columbus Blue Jackets Defense
Eighty games at 22:17 with 3:09 of it shorthanded, the 97th percentile, and 68 penalty minutes.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 204 | 12 | 51 | 63 | -15 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 237 | 5.1 | 20:23 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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 28 assists in 80 games — 33 points at 22:17 a night, minus-3, with 68 penalty minutes.
45.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,495 minutes, the 14th percentile among defencemen — more minutes than anyone else on the club. His ice went 69-84 against an expectation of 60.18-72.28.
3:09 a night shorthanded is the 97th percentile among defencemen. Columbus killed at 7.012 expected goals against per 60, 18th, which on a club that finished 32nd in even-strength defence is the part that worked.
The Finesse Game
23 per cent of his shots came from the slot, the 98th percentile among defencemen, on a median distance of 45 feet. He does not shoot often — 3.63 per 60, the 31st percentile — but when he does he has walked in first.
1.14 giveaways per 60 is the 21st-lowest of the 202 qualified defencemen, and 1.26 even-strength points per 60 is the 82nd percentile. He is a simple, correct passer whose value is that the puck does not come back.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 210, 4.17 hits and 4.64 blocks per 60, both close to the middle of the position. He is not a punisher and he is not a stick-checker; he closes gaps and finishes the check that is there.
1.08 penalties taken per 60 is the 88th percentile among defencemen and it is a fault, not a virtue — 68 penalty minutes, and his drawn-minus-taken of minus-0.71 is the 6th percentile. Twenty-two minutes a night against the other side’s best is the explanation and not the excuse.
38.5 per cent of his even-strength time was spent in the offensive zone, the 2nd percentile — the lowest share of any defenceman here.
The Intangibles
One hundred and fifty-ninth overall in 2015, sixth round, and 204 NHL games at 26 after four seasons in the KHL.
He is the only defenceman here who takes hard minutes and does not leak the puck, on a club that has just spent its summer on offence and has the worst even-strength defensive record in the league to repair.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
23.0% of his attempts in the slot, 99th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
34% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 1st percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“3:09 a night shorthanded is the 97th percentile among defencemen.”
“1.08 penalties taken per 60 is the 88th percentile among defencemen and it is a fault, not a virtue”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,495 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.4%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.2%
- 31st 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: 69 for, 84 against. Expected: 60.2 and 72.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 38 points above where the numbers do. 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 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, 2021-22 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 96th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.93 a game
- Distance
- 2.97 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.2 mph
- 71st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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
2021-22 · 1495 minutes at five-on-five
- Andrew Peeke40%
- Adam Boqvist17%
- Jake Bean16%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- CBJ took 44.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.4% — 0.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,495 minutes at five-on-five — 97th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Peeke | 42.7% | 47.2% | 44.5% |
| Sean Kuraly | 49.7% | 43.7% | 42.6% |
| Gustav Nyquist | 45.0% | 45.6% | 42.7% |
42.7% together, 47.2% for him apart and 44.5% for Peeke apart. He was better away from Peeke, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Peeke.
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
139 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 19% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 63% from beyond forty.