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Defence · #26

Dmitri Simashev

Age
21
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
90 kg
Born
Kostroma, RUS
Draft
2023, round 1, #6 (ARI)

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
32
Goals
0
Points
2
TOI per game
15:14
xGF% (5v5)
48.0%
Goals above expected
−1.4

Season by season

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

2025–26UTA28011−1115:06260.0%01.147.5%
2026–27UTA4011+316:0520.0%00.350.7%
Total1 team32022−815:14280.0%01.448.0%

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)
00.020.040.060.080.11015202530
13m14m15m16m17m18m1015202530Game

Player card

How 2025–26 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

7th 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 /600.006th pct
  • Assists /600.254th pct
  • ixG /600.1746th pct
  • Shots /603.4545th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)48.0%35th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.9%35th pct
  • Relative xGF%−7.84th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.6531st pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game15:1417th pct
  • PP time share0.5%13th pct
  • PK time share5.9%10th pct
  • Quality of competition24.5%46th 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.

−1.4 goals above expected

00.511.551015202530Game

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

−8−6−4−20+2+4+6+8+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 speed32.4 km/h31st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph257th pct
  • Hardest shot138.2 km/h68th pct
  • Distance skated14 km61st pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.4%55th 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

35.3 km/h47th pct

2025–26 only

3434.53535.53636.525–262025–26: 35.3 km/h, 47th percentile (28 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.194th pct

2025–26 only

01234525–262025–26: 4.1, 94th percentile (28 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.8 km59th pct

2025–26 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.225–262025–26: 13.8 km, 59th percentile (28 games)

Hardest shot

150.0 km/h58th pct

2025–26 only

14014515015525–262025–26: 150.0 km/h, 58th percentile (28 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.1%13th pct

2025–26 only

38%40%42%44%25–262025–26: 39.1%, 13th percentile (28 games)