Vladislav Kolyachonok
Dallas Stars Defense
A left-shot depth defenceman with 35 games of NHL work and a minus-12 to explain them.
| 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 | ARI | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 13:46 |
| 2023-24 | ARI | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20.0 | 12:28 |
| 2024-25 | UTA/PIT | 35 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 10.0 | 13:01 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 74 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -7 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 7.8 | 14:14 |
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 5 assists in 35 games for 7 points, minus-12, on 13:01 a night with Utah.
The minus-12 in 35 games is the worst rate on this roster by a wide margin, and it came in third-pair minutes on a club that was not good. Some of that is the club. Not all of it.
The Finesse Game
The skating is fine and the puck moves quickly enough. He can join a rush without being a liability and he does not stall a breakout, which is most of what a seventh defenceman is asked for.
20 shots in 35 games and 2 goals. There is no offensive game to project and no power-play value; what he is competing for is the last defence spot on a roster, against men who defend better.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 198, and neither heavy nor especially willing. He does not clear a net front and he loses more board battles than he wins against NHL forwards.
10 penalty minutes in 35 games. He is not undisciplined; he is simply not often in a position where a penalty is the alternative.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, three organisations by 24, and a career spent on the boundary between the two leagues.
The honest projection is an American League defenceman who fills in for injuries, and Dallas signed him as exactly that. Anything more would be a surprise.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 442 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.1%
- 80th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51%
- 64th 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: 17 for, 12 against. Expected: 18.6 and 16.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 72 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 357 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with UTA · 279 minutes at five-on-five
- Juuso Välimäkioff the roster34%
- Ian Cole20%
- Robert Bortuzzooff the roster14%
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
- PIT took 49.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.1% — 4.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 442 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juuso Välimäki | 61.6% | 50.7% | 49.3% |
| Logan Cooley | 50.2% | 53.9% | 47.5% |
| Dylan Guenther | 47.2% | 54.5% | 50.6% |
61.6% together, 50.7% for him apart and 49.3% for Välimäki apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
31 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 60 feet. 13% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 71% from beyond forty.