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Vladislav Gavrikov
Los Angeles Kings Defense
Six foot three, twenty and a half minutes a night, and 24 goals in 353 games.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 353 | 24 | 81 | 105 | -2 | 166 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 440 | 5.5 | 20:46 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
77 games, 6 goals and 17 assists for 23 points, 28 penalty minutes, 20:37 a night and plus-9. He took 53.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,350 minutes, the 78th percentile, and his ice went 63-54 against an expectation of 59.89-52.37.
Three goals of finishing above expectation on his ice and two more conceded than the chances called for. Twenty minutes a night against other clubs’ best forwards, and the play-driving stayed on the right side of the line.
The Finesse Game
114 shots at a median of 55 feet with 76 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 5.3 per cent against a career 5.5.
81 career assists in 353 games. He is a defensive defenceman and there is no offence to describe. What he does with the puck is move it to a forward quickly and stay out of the play.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 210 and punishing on the wall, and nobody wins a puck off him in his own corner.
28 penalty minutes in 77 games at twenty and a half a night is a very low rate for a defenceman who plays this heavily. He clears the front of his net, blocks shots and kills penalties.
The Intangibles
A sixth-round pick in 2015 out of Yaroslavl, five seasons after a long run at home, and 105 points in 353 games.
He is 28 and this is the second pairing on a club that finished third in goals against. He is due a contract and there is no obvious replacement for the minutes.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,350 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.3%
- 78th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.7%
- 83rd 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: 63 for, 54 against. Expected: 59.9 and 52.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 12 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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
2023-24 · 1350 minutes at five-on-five
- Matt Roynow WSH75%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- LAK took 54.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.3% — 0.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,350 minutes at five-on-five — 92nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Roy | 54.2% | 51.0% | 58.0% |
| Trevor Moore | 59.4% | 50.6% | 57.1% |
| Kevin Fiala | 60.5% | 50.1% | 57.2% |
54.2% together, 51.0% for him apart and 58.0% for Roy apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Roy 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
141 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 46 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.