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Vladislav Gavrikov Out Week-To-Week With Lower-Body Injury

December 13, 2023 at 2:54 pm CDT | by Josh Erickson 2 Comments

Kings blueliner Vladislav Gavrikov left Sunday’s game against the Rangers with a lower-body injury, just one night after he was on the wrong end of a knee-on-knee collision with Islanders captain Anders Lee. Today, the team announced that Gavrikov will not be in the lineup for tonight’s game against the Jets and is sidelined on a week-to-week basis.

Gavrikov, 28, has blossomed into a solid second-pairing defender since beginning his NHL career in 2019 with the Blue Jackets. A sixth-round pick of Columbus in 2015, Gavrikov played four seasons in his home country of Russia before joining the NHL ranks, including an Olympics appearance in 2018 and multiple World Championship appearances.

He cracked the Blue Jackets out of camp on his first try, going on to record 18 points and a +1 rating while averaging 18:59 per game through 69 contests during his rookie season. The pandemic-shortened 2020-21 campaign was a tough one for him, recording 12 points and a -13 rating in 55 games, but he broke out as a true top-four threat the following season with five goals, 33 points, and a respectable -3 rating on a Blue Jackets team that finished below the .500 mark while playing over 22 minutes a game.

Amidst a disappointing campaign for Columbus last season, the organization parted ways with Gavrikov near the trade deadline, dealing him to the Kings, along with netminder Joonas Korpisalo, for a package headlined by Los Angeles’ 2023 first-round draft pick. He’s been dynamite in Hollywood since the deal, and he’s posted some of the best possession numbers of any player in the league this season. Through 25 games, Gavrikov is playing nearly 20 minutes per game, has three goals and six assists, and boasts a 57.5% Corsi share at even strength. He also leads the NHL in Hockey Reference’s expected plus-minus metric with a +9.5 rating.

Needless to say, his services will be tough to replace for a Kings team whose .720 points percentage ranks fourth in the NHL and second in the Western Conference. 25-year-old Jacob Moverare, who has been recalled on numerous occasions this season but has yet to see game action with the Kings, will make his 2023-24 debut tonight in place of Gavrikov on their second pairing alongside Matt Roy. Moverare has five assists and a +1 rating through 16 games with AHL Ontario. He’s amassed 21 games of NHL experience with the Kings dating back to 2021, recording two assists and a +2 rating in 16:13 of average ice time.

The Kings do have cap space to make a corresponding recall from Ontario while winger Viktor Arvidsson remains on long-term injured reserve, but their 23-man roster is currently full. Given he’s expected to miss longer than seven days, expect the Kings to move Gavrikov to injured reserve in the near future to accommodate an extra defenseman on the active roster.

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  1. rpoabr

    2 years ago

    Well that sucks!

    Usual Kings injury reporting, day to day initially means week to week or longer.

    Hoping for the best!

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  2. jabronieramone

    2 years ago

    Bummer man

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