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Raphael Lavoie

#36 · Centre · Vegas Golden Knights

Born Sep 25, 2000 in Chambly, Quebec, CAN (age 26) · 6'4", 214 lb · Shoots right · Drafted 38th overall in 2019 by EDM (round 2)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2026-27. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Alexey Toropchenko STL · 0 P in 1 GP Andre Lee LAK · 0 P in 1 GP Andrew Mangiapane CHI · 0 P in 1 GP Aydar Suniev CGY · 0 P in 1 GP Brennan Othmann CGY · 0 P in 1 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

00.20.40.60.812023-24: 0 points023-242024-25: 0 points024-252025-26: 0 points025-262026-27: 0 points026-27

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2023-24 EDM 7 0 0 0 -2 2 4 13 0.00 $874K
2024-25 VGK 9 0 0 0 -4 2 10 16 0.00 $775K
2025-26 VGK 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 $775K
2026-27 VGK 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 0.00 $900K
4 seasons Career 18 0 0 0 -7 4 14 34 0.00

2026-27 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 0.00 0.0 8:14

Contract

$900KCap hitends in 2027

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. The season is still being played, so each rating is projected over the whole season: the games played so far, plus the games left at the rate of the last three seasons and this one. He rated at or below a spare-part player, so there is no cost per goal to show.

The contract

Signed by the Vegas Golden Knights on Jul 1, 2026, as a new contract (two-way): 1 year and $900K, beginning in 2026-27. It runs through 2026-27, so this is its last season.

Season Cap hit
2026-27 $900K

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
Jul 1, 2026 Vegas Golden Knights New contract (two-way) 2026-27 to 2026-27 1 $900K $900K
2025-26 to 2025-26 $775K
Jul 8, 2024 Edmonton Oilers New contract 2024-25 to 2024-25 1 $775K $775K
Jul 14, 2023 Edmonton Oilers New contract 2023-24 to 2023-24 1 $874K $874K
Mar 21, 2020 Edmonton Oilers Entry-level 2020-21 to 2022-23 3 $2.775M $870K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2026-27 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2026-27 analytics

Rating, projected over the full season

2026-27 is still being played, so these are a projection of his whole season, not a count so far: what he has done in 1 game (-0.3 goals above replacement), plus the 6 more he is taken to play, going by how much of his team's games he has played before, at a rate set by his last three seasons and this one. The more he plays, the more this season counts, and by the last game it is simply his season.

-0.4Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
-0.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.4Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.3Even-strength defence-0.1Power play0.0Penalty kill0.0Penalties0.0

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. His projection rests on fewer than 20 games, counting the last three seasons, too few to be ranked.

-1.5-1-0.500.512023-242024-252025-262026-27Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

46.7Corsi for %7 attempts for, 8 against
-12.4CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
24.5Expected goals for %0.1 expected for, 0.4 against
-43.1xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
37.5Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
0.0Goals for %0 for, 1 against
75.0PDO0.0% shooting + 75.0% saves
0Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tomas Hertl · Raphael Lavoie · Trevor Connelly17:0446.215.60-1
Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel · Raphael Lavoie10:20100.0100.00-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Oct 8, 2026 vs TOR W 4-3 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 08:14