Vasily Podkolzin Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Savoie is a different player beside him: 57.4% of the expected goals with Podkolzin, 44.6% without him.

255 minutes together, 736 minutes apart for Savoie

It stops working when he is paired with Jake Walman

The pairing with Walman is the one that costs him: 44.9% of the expected goals together, 53.3% apart.

252 minutes together, 890 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Stastney does better away from him: 58.6% of the expected goals apart against 49.3% together.

143 minutes together, 245 minutes apart

Mattias Ekholm is the partner who brings the best out of him

Podkolzin is at his best beside Ekholm: 56.4% of the expected goals together against 48.1% apart.

411 minutes together, 732 minutes apart

He and Matt Savoie are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Podkolzin and Savoie: 4.87 expected goals an hour.

255 minutes together at 5v5

Leon Draisaitl is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Draisaitl than anyone: 592 minutes, worth 48.9% of the expected goals.

37 goals for, 23 against together

The goals go his team's way when Evan Bouchard is out there with him

With Bouchard on the ice too, the Oilers have outscored opponents 29 to 13 at 5v5.

69.0% goal share over 423 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Alec Regula are out together

He gives up least beside Regula: 3.57 expected goals against an hour.

116 minutes together at 5v5

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Podkolzin with Bouchard, Ekholm, McDavid and Savoie, 88 minutes at 5v5.

61.7% of the expected goals, 5 goals for and 3 against

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Draisaitl, Nurse, Roslovic and Walman: 30.1% of the expected goals.

3 goals for, 2 against over 39 minutes

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Draisaitl, Nurse, Regula and Savoie: 66.9% of the expected goals over 31 minutes.

2 goals for, 0 against, 56.1% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Podkolzin has played 53 different five-man units at 5v5, 6 of them for real minutes.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled

The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

15 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Podkolzin this season.

each of them also has that long apart from him, so every split below is a real split

Leon Draisaitl is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Leon Draisaitl has assisted on 6 of his 19 goals, 31.6% of them.

6 primary, 0 secondary

Kasperi Kapanen is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 4 of Kasperi Kapanen's goals, 22.2% of his own assists.

2 primary, 2 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

55.6% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

10 primary of 18 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

17 different teammates have assisted on his 19 goals.

Draisaitl (6), McDavid (3), Nurse (3), Bouchard (3)

The kill leaks goals when he is the one out there

Short-handed he concedes 12.65 expected goals an hour.

9 goals against in 51 minutes, 171st of 180 forwards

His line puts far more rubber on the net than it allows

56.4% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Podkolzin is on.

583 for, 450 against, 34th of 454 forwards

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 50.76 shot attempts an hour with Podkolzin on the ice at 5v5.

56th of 454 forwards

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Podkolzin's line owns 53.4% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,110 for, 967 against, 77th of 454 forwards

His team wins the goal battle while he is on the ice

The Oilers score 56.7% of the 5v5 goals with Podkolzin out there.

59 for, 45 against, 83rd of 454 forwards

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.0 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

97th of 454 forwards

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.1, close to neutral.

10.1% shooting and 90.0% goaltending behind him, 199th of 454 forwards

His line finishes better than the chances it creates

His line is scoring above the chances it creates: 56.7% of the goals off 51.2% of the expected goals.

5.5 points of goal share above expectation

Good things happen for his team when he is on the ice

The Oilers are up 12 goals with Podkolzin on the ice.

68 for, 56 against, 132nd of 466 forwards

His line spends the night in the other team's end

At 5v5 the Oilers generate 51.2% of the expected goals with Podkolzin on the ice.

80.0 xGF to 76.1 xGA over 1,143 minutes, 169th of 454 forwards

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Oilers create 4.2 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Podkolzin on.

265th of 454 forwards

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:15 of penalty kill time a game, 157th among forwards.

4.1% of his total ice time

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Podkolzin plays 15:22 a night, 214th among forwards.

1,261 minutes across 82 games

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +16 on the season.

66th in the league

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 11.48 checks an hour.

109th in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 3 penalty minutes an hour.

162nd most penalty minutes an hour

How he gets his points says what kind of player he is

Only 8.1% of his points come on the power play: this is even-strength production.

3 of 37 points with the man advantage

A lot of his goals arrive when the game is on the line

Podkolzin has 5 game winners this season.

19 goals in total

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 0.91 goals an hour of ice time.

203rd in the league

Losing draws is a real hole in his game

He wins 32.3% of his draws.

450th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

18 takeaways against 52 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.35 takeaways per giveaway

He shoots the puck himself, not just when his line has it

He puts 6.62 shots on goal an hour.

244th in the league

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Podkolzin produces 1.76 points an hour of ice time.

295th in the league

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.48 times an hour.

653rd most giveaways an hour

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.14 points an hour.

367th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.86 assists an hour of ice time.

435th in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.43 shots an hour of ice time.

523rd in the league

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.86 times an hour.

449th in the league

When he shoots, it tends to be on target

74.3% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

139 of 187 unblocked, 20th of 468 forwards

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

7.1% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

16 long-range attempts, 59th of 468 forwards

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

16.5% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

37 of 224 attempts, 60th of 468 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

34.4% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

77 attempts, 6 goals

He works one side of the ice far more than the other

40.6% of his attempts come from the middle lane.

72 left, 91 middle, 61 right

He does not shoot, he looks to pass or carry instead

He fires 10.66 attempts an hour of ice time.

224 attempts in 1,261 minutes, 332nd of 466 forwards

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 24.9 feet.

224 located attempts, 157th of 468 forwards

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Podkolzin has taken 224 shot attempts this season.

120 on goal, 48 missed, 37 blocked, 197th of 468 forwards

He gets to the middle of the ice about as often as most

54.5% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

122 of 224 attempts, 203rd of 468 forwards

He takes an ordinary share of his shots from close range

53.1% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

119 attempts from inside the home plate, 223rd of 468 forwards

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Podkolzin has scored 2 times on Alex Nedeljkovic this season, more than on any other goaltender.

2 goals on 7 attempts, 28.6%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Lukas Dostal has turned him away every time: 8 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Sharks this season.

11 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Lukas Dostal: 8 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

There is one opponent he goes looking for all night

Podkolzin has finished his check on Axel Sandin-Pellikka 5 times, more than anyone.

hits delivered, from play-by-play

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

MacKenzie Weegar has hit him 4 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Ridly Greig has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

One shot in his bag goes in far more often than the rest

His deadliest shot is the snap shot: 16.3% of them go in.

8 goals on 49 attempts

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Podkolzin has 19 goals off 15.4 expected: 3.6 more than the chances alone say.

122nd of 468 forwards

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 10.7% of his attempts.

13 goals on 122 close attempts, 128th of 468 forwards

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 19.8 feet out, and the longest went in from 43.

19 goals located by coordinate

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 13.7% of the shots he puts on goal.

19 goals on 139 shots, 189th of 468 forwards

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