Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Vladislav Namestnikov

Winnipeg Jets Center

Seven hundred and eight games across seven organisations.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2013-14TBL4000-1400040.09:28
2014-15TBL439716+1131034619.612:00
2015-16TBL80142135+174510210613.214:07
2016-17TBL74101828-4313001148.814:47
2017-18TBL/NYR81222648+64590215514.217:05
2018-19NYR78112031-7441231199.215:48
2019-20NYR/OTT/COL65171431-5452429817.315:03
2020-21DET538917-524000879.216:11
2021-22DET/DAL75161430+2450119117.614:39
2022-23TBL/WPG7781725+5351001087.412:38
2023-24WPG78112637+17373109511.614:28
2024-25 so far
Career708126172298+2636821813102312.314:44

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

78 games, 11 goals and 26 assists for 37 points, 3 on the power play, 1 shorthanded, 37 penalty minutes, 14:28 a night and plus-17. He took 53.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 920 minutes, the 75th percentile, and his ice went 45-32 against an expectation of 37.84-33.54.

Seven goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and two goals of goaltending above them. Thirty-seven points is his most since 2017-18 and it came at fourteen and a half minutes a night.

The Finesse Game

138 attempts at a median of 18 feet with 55 per cent of them from inside twenty and 11 per cent from beyond forty, 91 of those on goal, converted at 11.6 per cent against a career 12.32 across 1,023 shots.

126 career goals and 172 assists in 708 games. An eighteen-foot median attempt with more than half of them from inside twenty feet is a third-line centre who gets to the slot; the rate has held at twelve per cent across a thousand shots and eleven seasons.

The Physical Game

He is 6-0 and 181 and took 37 penalty minutes.

368 career penalty minutes in 708 games. He is light and plays the middle of the ice anyway, taking the punishment on the way to the slot rather than handing it out.

The Intangibles

Twenty-seventh overall in 2011 by Tampa Bay, eleven seasons, and Winnipeg is his seventh organisation.

A career plus-26 and 8 shorthanded goals in 708 games. He is 31, he has played for seven clubs in eleven seasons, and 37 points last season was his best return in six years.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 920 minutes

Expected goals
53%
76th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
52.4%
75th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 45 for, 32 against. Expected: 37.8 and 33.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
87th
Numbers
76th

The two rank him within 11 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 78 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 · 920 minutes at five-on-five

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
WPG took 52.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.0% — 1.0 above the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 920 minutes at five-on-five — 49th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Cole Perfetti56.6%49.6%50.5%
Josh Morrissey55.7%51.3%54.1%
Alex Iafallo59.3%50.4%50.9%

56.6% together, 49.6% for him apart and 50.5% for Perfetti 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

138 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 56% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.