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Vladislav Kolyachonok

Thirty-two games at fifteen minutes in a first NHL season, and the softest shot of any defenceman in this book but one.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI
2021-22	ARI	32	1	2	3	0	6	0	0	0	24	4.2	15:51
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	32	1	2	3	0	6	0	0	0	24	4.2	15:51

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

1 goal and 2 assists in 32 games — 3 points at 15:51 a night, even, on 24 shots and 6 penalty minutes.

45.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 491 minutes, which on this defence corps is a top-three figure. His ice went 19-19 against an expectation of 18.04-21.73 — three fewer goals conceded than the chances predicted.

Fifteen minutes a night at twenty-one, on the worst possession club in the league, is a hard place to learn the position and there was nowhere else to put him.

The Finesse Game

24 attempts at a median of 46 feet and one goal. The shot leaves his stick at 80.9 mph, which is the 2nd percentile among the skaters the tracking covers — for a defenceman whose route to the NHL is supposed to be his passing, a point shot nobody has to respect is a real limitation on the power play he does not yet play.

He is a puck-mover by description and 3 points in 32 games is what the description has produced so far.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 198. There is no physical record here — 6 penalty minutes in 32 games — and none of the tracking flatters him: a 21.0 mph top speed and 2.32 miles a game, both near the bottom of the position.

At twenty-one none of that is settled. Defencemen add strength late and the frame will carry more.

The Intangibles

Fifty-second overall in 2019 by Florida, sent to Arizona in the summer of 2021 as part of what Florida paid to have Anton Stralman’s contract taken off its books, and an NHL debut at twenty-one.

He is 21. Nothing here is a verdict. He is a second-round defenceman getting minutes three years early on a club with no alternative, and the only sensible way to read a season like this is as attendance rather than as evidence.

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.

ordinaryraised, and called ordinary

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.

transitionpresent and ordinary· carries it out; gains the line under control
“He is a puck-mover by description and 3 points in 32 games is what the description has produced so far”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 491 minutes

Expected goals: 45.4%; 20th pct
Shot attempts: 45.3%; 16th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 19 for, 19 against. Expected: 18.0 and 21.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

6th

Numbers

20th

The two rank him within 14 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 48 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 · 32 games

Top speed: 21.0 mph; 29th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.66 a game
Distance: 2.32 miles a game
Hardest shot: 80.9 mph; 11th 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.

Usual linemates

2021-22 · 491 minutes at five-on-five

Kyle Capobianconow WPG38%
Jakob Chychrun20%
Cam Dineenoff the roster16%

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: ARI took 42.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.4% — 2.6 above the club he did it on.
The role: 491 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Kyle Capobianco	44.2%	46.1%	40.5%
Travis Boyd	47.2%	44.6%	42.6%
Phil Kessel	40.4%	47.3%	44.0%

44.2% together, 46.1% for him apart and 40.5% for Capobianco apart. Capobianco was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Capobianco than for 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

32 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 31 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 63% from beyond forty.