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Defence · #2

Artem Zub

Ottawa Senators
Age
31
Shoots
Right
Height
191 cm
Weight
91 kg
Born
Khabarovsk, RUS
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2020–21 to 2025–26

Games
387
Goals
24
Points
114
TOI per game
20:30
xGF% (5v5)
51.6%
Goals above expected
+4.3

Season by season

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

2020–21OTT4731114+418:23397.7%01.549.1%
2021–22OTT8161622+121:02926.5%04.547.8%
2022–23OTT533710+220:15417.3%02.052.8%
2023–24OTT6952025+521:01855.9%04.951.1%
2024–25OTT5621113+320:38573.5%12.754.8%
2025–26OTT8152530+2220:48925.4%04.055.0%
Total1 team3872490114+3720:304065.9%119.751.6%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.650100150200250300350
16m18m20m22m24m50100150200250300350Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2020–21 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

79th 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 /600.1852nd pct
  • Assists /600.6854th pct
  • ixG /600.1532nd pct
  • Shots /603.0721st pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)51.6%76th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.3%65th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.983rd pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2987th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game20:3078th pct
  • PP time share3.0%42nd pct
  • PK time share45.7%83rd pct
  • Quality of competition25.0%94th 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. Marcus PetterssonPIT/VAN0.92
  2. Ian ColeCAR/TBL/VAN/UTA0.85
  3. Dylan DeMeloWPG0.85
  4. Justin HollTOR/DET0.82
  5. Brenden DillonWPG/NJD0.82
  6. Niko MikkolaSTL/NYR/FLA0.79

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.

+4.3 goals above expected

051015202550100150200250300350Game

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 speed33.7 km/h25th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph933rd pct
  • Hardest shot152.5 km/h77th pct
  • Distance skated364 km79th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.3%46th 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

33.7 km/h10th pct

▲ +0.9 km/h since 2024–25

32333435363721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 34.9 km/h, 41st percentile (81 games)2022–23: 33.3 km/h, 4th percentile (53 games)2023–24: 33.3 km/h, 3rd percentile (69 games)2024–25: 32.8 km/h, 1st percentile (56 games)2025–26: 33.7 km/h, 10th percentile (81 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.35th pct

▲ +0.1 since 2024–25

012321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 0.4, 9th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 0.6, 13th percentile (53 games)2023–24: 0.3, 3rd percentile (69 games)2024–25: 0.3, 3rd percentile (56 games)2025–26: 0.3, 5th percentile (81 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.0 km9th pct

▲ +0.1 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 13.0 km, 11th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 13.4 km, 46th percentile (53 games)2023–24: 12.7 km, 3rd percentile (69 games)2024–25: 12.8 km, 4th percentile (56 games)2025–26: 13.0 km, 9th percentile (81 games)

Hardest shot

152.5 km/h69th pct

▼ −3.1 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015516016521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 161.0 km/h, 92nd percentile (81 games)2022–23: 156.2 km/h, 79th percentile (53 games)2023–24: 151.0 km/h, 57th percentile (69 games)2024–25: 155.6 km/h, 82nd percentile (56 games)2025–26: 152.5 km/h, 69th percentile (81 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.3%47th pct

▲ +1.5 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 40.5%, 37th percentile (81 games)2022–23: 40.7%, 32nd percentile (53 games)2023–24: 39.5%, 24th percentile (69 games)2024–25: 39.8%, 23rd percentile (56 games)2025–26: 41.3%, 47th percentile (81 games)