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Defence · #37

Yan Kuznetsov

Age
24
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Murmansk, RUS
Draft
2020, round 2, #50 (CGY)

Career · 3 seasons

Games
60
Goals
4
Points
12
TOI per game
19:55
xGF% (5v5)
44.5%
Goals above expected
+1.2

Season by season

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

2023–24CGY1000−111:5820.0%00.144.7%
After a break: 2025–26CGY574812−820:05646.3%02.644.8%
2026–27CGY2000−318:5140.0%00.137.1%
Total1 team604812−1219:55705.7%02.844.5%

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
18m19m20m21m22m102030405060Game

Player card

How 3 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

19th 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

3rd pair
  • Goals /600.2054th pct
  • Assists /600.4010th pct
  • ixG /600.1427th pct
  • Shots /603.5244th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)44.5%14th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.3%39th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.824th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.977th pct

Usage

2nd pair
  • TOI per game19:5568th pct
  • PP time share1.4%32nd pct
  • PK time share39.5%66th pct
  • Quality of competition24.8%68th 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).

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.

+1.2 goals above expected

01234102030405060Game

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

−50+5+10

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 speed33.0 km/h52nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph590th pct
  • Hardest shot140.0 km/h73rd pct
  • Distance skated9 km24th pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.4%74th 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

35.5 km/h53rd pct

▲ +2.2 km/h since 2023–24

32333435363723–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 33.3 km/h, 3rd percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.5 km/h, 53rd percentile (57 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.063rd pct

▼ −8.0 since 2023–24

02468101223–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 10.0, 100th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 2.0, 63rd percentile (57 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.0 km70th pct

▼ −0.6 km since 2023–24

1313.51414.51523–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 14.6 km, 96th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.0 km, 70th percentile (57 games)

Hardest shot

161.2 km/h96th pct

▲ +18.6 km/h since 2023–24

14014515015516016523–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 142.7 km/h, 19th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 161.2 km/h, 96th percentile (57 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.9%26th pct

▲ +0.4 points since 2023–24

39%40%41%42%43%44%23–2424–2525–262024–25: no NHL games2023–24: 39.5%, 24th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 39.9%, 26th percentile (57 games)