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Defence · #46

Ilya Lyubushkin

Arizona Coyotes Toronto Maple Leafs Buffalo Sabres Anaheim Ducks Dallas Stars(traded during the season)
Age
32
Shoots
Right
Height
188 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Moscow, RUS
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2018–19 to 2025–26

Games
133
Goals
2
Points
23
TOI per game
16:44
xGF% (5v5)
48.7%
Goals above expected
−2.6

Season by season

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

2018–19ARI41044−913:44270.0%01.247.6%
2019–20ARI51044+414:11410.0%01.554.2%
2020–21ARI42112−1315:42362.8%01.246.1%
2021–22ARI46099−618:07330.0%01.245.1%
2021–22TOR31246+416:28219.5%00.952.9%
2021–22All teams7721315−217:27543.7%02.148.6%
2022–23BUF6821214−215:01414.9%01.446.1%
2023–24ANA55044−1317:09380.0%02.143.4%
2023–24TOR19044+217:0390.0%00.455.1%
2023–24All teams74088−1117:07470.0%02.546.2%
2024–25DAL8011314+517:23512.0%03.149.6%
2025–26DAL53189+115:44333.0%01.547.2%
Total5 teams48676370−2716:033302.1%014.548.1%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.620406080100120
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Player card

Model-based

How 2018–19 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

14th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.0510th pct
  • Assists /600.4823rd pct
  • ixG /600.117th pct
  • Shots /602.544th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.1%41st pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.8%23rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.330th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.4955th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game16:0337th pct
  • PP time share0.9%14th pct
  • PK time share32.0%60th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%48th pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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. Korbinian HolzerANA0.92
  2. Noah JuulsenVAN/PHI0.92
  3. Vincent DesharnaisEDM0.88
  4. Jaycob MegnaANA0.88
  5. Jack St. IvanyPIT0.87
  6. Adam McQuaidNYR0.87

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.

−2.6 goals above expected

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

−20−100+10+20+30+40

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 speed33.6 km/h23rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph525th pct
  • Hardest shot141.3 km/h36th pct
  • Distance skated183 km44th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.6%33rd pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

33.6 km/h8th pct

▼ −0.6 km/h since 2024–25

333435363721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.4 km/h, 57th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 33.4 km/h, 4th percentile (68 games)2023–24: 34.2 km/h, 22nd percentile (74 games)2024–25: 34.2 km/h, 16th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 33.6 km/h, 8th percentile (53 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.46th pct

▼ −0.4 since 2024–25

012321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 0.7, 23rd percentile (77 games)2022–23: 0.6, 12th percentile (68 games)2023–24: 0.8, 18th percentile (74 games)2024–25: 0.7, 18th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 0.4, 6th percentile (53 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.2 km20th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 13.5 km, 42nd percentile (77 games)2022–23: 13.6 km, 58th percentile (68 games)2023–24: 13.5 km, 45th percentile (74 games)2024–25: 13.7 km, 51st percentile (80 games)2025–26: 13.2 km, 20th percentile (53 games)

Hardest shot

141.3 km/h20th pct

▼ −4.9 km/h since 2024–25

13014015016017021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 161.6 km/h, 93rd percentile (77 games)2022–23: 151.1 km/h, 51st percentile (68 games)2023–24: 158.7 km/h, 86th percentile (74 games)2024–25: 146.2 km/h, 41st percentile (80 games)2025–26: 141.3 km/h, 20th percentile (53 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.6%34th pct

▲ +2.2 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 38.7%, 7th percentile (77 games)2022–23: 39.0%, 12th percentile (68 games)2023–24: 37.0%, 2nd percentile (74 games)2024–25: 38.4%, 6th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 40.6%, 34th percentile (53 games)