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Zakhar Bardakov

Age
25
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
90 kg
Born
Berdsk, RUS
Draft
2021, round 7, #203 (NJD)

2025–26

Games
60
Goals
1
Points
10
TOI per game
7:12
xGF% (5v5)
53.4%
Goals above expected
−3.1

Season

The regular-season line, by team for traded players.

2025–26COL601910+67:12352.9%04.153.4%

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)
00.10.20.30.4102030405060
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Player card

How this season compares with everyone else at the position, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

31st 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 /600.142nd pct
  • Assists /601.2568th pct
  • ixG /600.5615th pct
  • Goals above expected−3.121st pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)53.4%79th pct
  • CF% (5v5)54.7%89th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.318th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4283rd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game7:120th pct
  • PP time share1.0%14th pct
  • Offensive zone starts59.8%60th pct
  • Quality of competition22.5%3rd 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).

Faceoffs

How often Bardakov wins the draw this season, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 202+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

42.4%

73–99 · below the 202 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

42.4%

Opponents won 49.9% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.1% against them.

Wins above average

−13

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

Draws per game

4.3

172 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

32%44 · +3.254%39 · +1.542%19 · −1.850%6 · +0.925%4 · +3.740%5 · −1.050%6 · −2.143%23 · −1.842%26 · +3.2Attacking 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 zone50.0% 29–29
  • Neutral zone35.4% 23–42
  • Defensive zone42.9% 21–28

By strength

  • Even strength42.6% 72–97
  • Power play0.0% 0–1
  • Shorthanded50.0% 1–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +16 after a win, −12 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.2 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Finishing

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.

−3.1 goals above expected

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

−15−10−50+5+10+15+20

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 speed35.7 km/h48th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph6854th pct
  • Hardest shot136.9 km/h51st pct
  • Distance skated115 km33rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.8%46th 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

35.7 km/h37th pct

2025–26 only

3535.53636.53725–262025–26: 35.7 km/h, 37th percentile (60 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

9.484th pct

2025–26 only

2468101225–262025–26: 9.4, 84th percentile (60 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.0 km77th pct

2025–26 only

14.51515.51616.525–262025–26: 16.0 km, 77th percentile (60 games)

Hardest shot

136.9 km/h41st pct

2025–26 only

13013514014515025–262025–26: 136.9 km/h, 41st percentile (60 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.8%49th pct

2025–26 only

38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 41.8%, 49th percentile (60 games)