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Defence · #98

Pavel Mintyukov

Age
22
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Moscow, RUS
Draft
2022, round 1, #10 (ANA)

Career · 2023–24 to 2026–27

Games
209
Goals
17
Points
70
TOI per game
18:19
xGF% (5v5)
45.4%
Goals above expected
+0.3

Season by season

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

2023–24ANA6342428−2018:51884.5%75.346.3%
2024–25ANA6851419−417:36697.2%34.641.2%
2025–26ANA7381422−318:267910.1%26.348.0%
2026–27ANA5011+120:0050.0%00.550.0%
Total1 team209175370−2618:192417.1%1216.745.4%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200
12m14m16m18m20m22m50100150200Game

Player card

How 2023–24 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

39th 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

1st pair
  • Goals /600.2773rd pct
  • Assists /600.8370th pct
  • ixG /600.2678th pct
  • Shots /603.7856th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)45.4%18th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.4%21st pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.541st pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.947th pct

Usage

2nd pair
  • TOI per game18:1955th pct
  • PP time share23.3%72nd pct
  • PK time share25.1%47th pct
  • Quality of competition24.4%47th 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.

+0.3 goals above expected

0510152050100150200Game

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

−10−50+5+10+15

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 speed30.7 km/h4th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot106.4 km/h4th pct
  • Distance skated9 km23rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time34.8%6th 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

35.4 km/h50th pct

▲ +0.9 km/h since 2024–25

3434.53535.53636.523–2424–2525–262023–24: 35.3 km/h, 51st percentile (63 games)2024–25: 34.5 km/h, 30th percentile (68 games)2025–26: 35.4 km/h, 50th percentile (73 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.062nd pct

▲ +0.1 since 2024–25

0.511.522.5323–2424–2525–262023–24: 1.8, 60th percentile (63 games)2024–25: 1.9, 64th percentile (68 games)2025–26: 2.0, 62nd percentile (73 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.8 km55th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.223–2424–2525–262023–24: 13.6 km, 54th percentile (63 games)2024–25: 13.5 km, 40th percentile (68 games)2025–26: 13.8 km, 55th percentile (73 games)

Hardest shot

132.1 km/h1st pct

▲ +4.2 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016023–2424–2525–262023–24: 129.8 km/h, 1st percentile (63 games)2024–25: 127.9 km/h, 1st percentile (68 games)2025–26: 132.1 km/h, 1st percentile (73 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.9%40th pct

▲ +1.9 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%23–2424–2525–262023–24: 41.6%, 48th percentile (63 games)2024–25: 39.0%, 11th percentile (68 games)2025–26: 40.9%, 40th percentile (73 games)