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Vladislav Namestnikov

Seventy-one per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet at a median of 14 — the most net-front profile in this chapter.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2013-14	TBL	4	0	0	0	-1	4	0	0	0	4	0.0	9:28
2014-15	TBL	43	9	7	16	+1	13	1	0	3	46	19.6	12:00
2015-16	TBL	80	14	21	35	+17	45	1	0	2	106	13.2	14:07
2016-17	TBL	74	10	18	28	-4	31	3	0	0	114	8.8	14:47
2017-18	TBL/NYR	81	22	26	48	+6	45	9	0	2	155	14.2	17:05
2018-19	NYR	78	11	20	31	-7	44	1	2	3	119	9.2	15:48
2019-20	NYR/OTT/COL	65	17	14	31	-5	45	2	4	2	98	17.3	15:03
2020-21	DET	53	8	9	17	-5	24	0	0	0	87	9.2	16:11
2021-22	DET/DAL	75	16	14	30	+2	45	0	1	1	91	17.6	14:39
2022-23	TBL/WPG	77	8	17	25	+5	35	1	0	0	108	7.4	12:38
2023-24	WPG	78	11	26	37	+17	37	3	1	0	95	11.6	14:28
2024-25	WPG	78	11	27	38	+20	38	2	0	1	94	11.7	15:05
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	786	137	199	336	+46	406	23	8	14	1117	12.3	14:46

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

11 goals and 27 assists in 78 games — 38 points at 15:05 a night, plus-20, with 2 power-play goals on 94 shots, converting at 11.7 per cent, and 38 penalty minutes.

53.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 71st percentile. His ice went 37-26 against an expectation of 38.99-33.98 — ten goals of scoring missing and three conceded above expectation.

The Finesse Game

94 attempts at a median of 14 feet with 71 per cent from inside 20 and 7 per cent from beyond 40 — the most net-front shot profile of anybody in this chapter. He takes almost nothing from distance.

27 assists in 78 games is a good rate for a third-line centre. He makes the correct first pass out of his own end and he can distribute on a power play, which is why he has lasted twelve seasons in eight organisations.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 181 and he is not a physical player. He goes to the front of the net without being able to hold it against a heavy defenceman.

38 penalty minutes in 78 games is a moderate rate. He kills penalties, he is defensively reliable, and he can be put out with a lead.

The Intangibles

Twenty-seventh overall in 2011 by Tampa Bay and 786 games and 336 points across eight organisations, three separate stints of it here.

He is 32. He has been traded or signed as a free agent nine times and has played 78 or more games in each of his three Winnipeg seasons.

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
80.0% of his attempts in the slot, 100th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
66% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 97th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“**94 attempts at a median of 14 feet with 71 per cent from inside 20 and 7 per cent from beyond 40** — the most net-front shot profile of anybody in this chapter. He takes almost nothing from distance.”
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“**He makes the correct first pass out of his own end and he can distribute on a power play**, which is why he has lasted twelve seasons in eight organisations.”
hard-to-movehe lacks it· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He goes to the front of the net without being able to hold it against a heavy defenceman.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“He kills penalties, he is defensively reliable, and he can be put out with a lead.”
defensively-responsiblea strength· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“He kills penalties, he is defensively reliable, and he can be put out with a lead.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 972 minutes

Expected goals: 53.4%; 81st pct
Shot attempts: 52.2%; 75th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 37 for, 26 against. Expected: 39.0 and 34.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

55th

Numbers

81st

The numbers rank him 26 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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, 2024-25 · 78 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 72nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.04 a game
Distance: 2.48 miles a game
Hardest shot: 80.5 mph; 21st 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

2024-25 · 972 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, 2024-25

The club: WPG took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.4% — 1.6 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 972 minutes at five-on-five — 57th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Cole Perfetti	54.2%	49.2%	49.4%
Nikolaj Ehlers	53.8%	52.8%	59.4%
Josh Morrissey	57.0%	51.5%	53.2%

54.2% together, 49.2% for him apart and 49.4% 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

135 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 72% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.