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Defence · #8

Zeev Buium

Minnesota Wild Vancouver Canucks(traded during the season)
Age
20
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
San Diego, USA
Draft
2024, round 1, #12 (MIN)

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
80
Goals
6
Points
26
TOI per game
19:41
xGF% (5v5)
43.7%
Goals above expected
+0.9

Season by season

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

2025–26MIN3131114−918:28319.7%82.344.6%
2025–26VAN453912−2420:21427.1%52.643.4%
2025–26All teams7662026−3319:35738.2%134.843.8%
2026–27VAN4000−221:4050.0%00.341.5%
Total2 teams8062026−3519:41787.7%135.143.7%

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)
00.20.40.60.81020304050607080
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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

3rd pair

24th 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.2361st pct
  • Assists /600.7657th pct
  • ixG /600.1953rd pct
  • Shots /602.9729th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)43.7%9th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.2%29th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.750th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.937th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game19:4159th pct
  • PP time share47.3%87th pct
  • PK time share1.0%2nd pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%37th 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.

+0.9 goals above expected

01234561020304050607080Game

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 speed33.7 km/h69th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph376th pct
  • Hardest shot133.2 km/h56th pct
  • Distance skated20 km92nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.2%14th 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

36.6 km/h84th pct

2025–26 only

3435363725–262025–26: 36.6 km/h, 84th percentile (76 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.856th pct

2025–26 only

0.511.522.5325–262025–26: 1.8, 56th percentile (76 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.1 km77th pct

2025–26 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.225–262025–26: 14.1 km, 77th percentile (76 games)

Hardest shot

135.0 km/h4th pct

2025–26 only

13014015016025–262025–26: 135.0 km/h, 4th percentile (76 games)

Offensive-zone time

44.5%88th pct

2025–26 only

38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 44.5%, 88th percentile (76 games)