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Akil Thomas

Los Angeles Kings
Age
26
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Toronto, CAN
Draft
2018, round 2, #51 (LAK)

Career · 2023–24 to 2024–25

Games
32
Goals
4
Points
7
TOI per game
9:39
xGF% (5v5)
47.0%
Goals above expected
+1.5

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2023–24LAK731408:44933.3%00.654.5%
2024–25LAK25123−49:55205.0%01.944.6%
Total1 team32437−49:392913.8%02.547.0%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.10.20.30.40.51015202530
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Player card

Model-based

How 2023–24 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

27th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

4th line
  • Goals /600.7854th pct
  • Assists /600.5816th pct
  • ixG /600.498th pct
  • Goals above expected+1.569th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)47.0%32nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.7%43rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−6.113th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.7897th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:397th pct
  • PP time share2.2%21st pct
  • Offensive zone starts47.2%32nd pct
  • Quality of competition22.4%2nd pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Reese Johnson0.86
  2. Conor GeekieTBL0.86
  3. Zemgus GirgensonsTBL0.83
  4. Justin BaileySJS0.83
  5. Michael Sgarbossa0.80
  6. Brock McGinn0.80

Faceoffs

How often Thomas wins the draw over 2023–24 to 2024–25, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 410+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

43.1%

22–29 · below the 410 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

42.6%

Opponents won 49.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.5% against them.

Wins above average

−4

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

2.4

51 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

43%7 · −2.220%5 · −2.345%11 · 0.0100%1 · –50%6 · +5.967%3 · +0.5100%1 · –35%17 · +0.4Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone37.5% 6–10
  • Neutral zone52.9% 9–8
  • Defensive zone38.9% 7–11

By strength

  • Even strength42.9% 21–28
  • Shorthanded50.0% 1–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +23 after a win, +3 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2023–241040.0%36.9%
2024–254143.9%44.0%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+1.5 goals above expected

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Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−20−100+10+20+30

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed34.6 km/h19th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2631st pct
  • Hardest shot130.5 km/h24th pct
  • Distance skated65 km27th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.2%7th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

34.6 km/h8th pct

▲ +1.2 km/h since 2023–24

33343536373823–2424–252023–24: 33.4 km/h, 1st percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 34.6 km/h, 8th percentile (25 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.361st pct

▲ +3.3 since 2023–24

24681023–2424–252023–24: 2.9, 20th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 6.3, 61st percentile (25 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.8 km61st pct

▲ +0.0 km since 2023–24

1515.215.415.615.81616.223–2424–252023–24: 15.7 km, 64th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.8 km, 61st percentile (25 games)

Hardest shot

130.5 km/h11th pct

▲ +1.8 km/h since 2023–24

12513013514014515023–2424–252023–24: 128.7 km/h, 6th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 130.5 km/h, 11th percentile (25 games)

Offensive-zone time

38.2%8th pct

▼ −4.8 points since 2023–24

36%38%40%42%44%46%23–2424–252023–24: 43.0%, 66th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 38.2%, 8th percentile (25 games)