- Age
- 20
- Shoots
- Left
- Height
- 198 cm
- Weight
- 104 kg
- Born
- Vitebsk, BLR
- Draft
- 2024, round 3, #75 (WSH)
Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27
- Games
- 6
- Goals
- 1
- Points
- 5
- TOI per game
- 14:10
- xGF% (5v5)
- 49.0%
- Goals above expected
- +0.2
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.
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 line
41st percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
2nd line- Goals /600.7144th pct
- Assists /602.82100th pct
- ixG /600.5513th pct
- Goals above expected+0.260th pct
Play-driving
4th line- xGF% (5v5)49.0%47th pct
- CF% (5v5)48.1%36th pct
- Relative xGF%+0.959th pct
- Penalty diff /60-0.713rd pct
Usage
3rd line- TOI per game14:1045th pct
- PP time share57.3%77th pct
- Offensive zone starts41.4%23rd pct
- Quality of competition22.8%4th pct
Percentiles among forwards 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.
Most similar players this season
Needs a regular role to compare.
Faceoffs
How often Protas wins the draw over 2025–26 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 215+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
43.9%
25–32 · below the 215 draws of a regular
Against an average centre
42.8%
Opponents won 49.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 51.0% against them.
Wins above average
−4
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
9.5
57 draws in all.
By dot, attacking to the right
Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.
By zone
- Offensive zone60.0% 9–6
- Neutral zone20.0% 3–12
- Defensive zone48.1% 13–14
By strength
- Even strength42.9% 24–32
- Power play100.0% 1–0
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +4 after a win, −6 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Max Domi37.5% 3–5
- Noel Acciari40.0% 2–3
- Rickard Rakell80.0% 4–1
- Anthony Cirelli75.0% 3–1
- John Tavares33.3% 1–2
- Joona Koppanen0.0% 0–3
- Sidney Crosby33.3% 1–2
- Charlie Coyle33.3% 1–2
Season by season
| Season | Draws | Win rate | Against average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 42 | 45.2% | 43.8% |
| 2026–27 | 15 | 40.0% | 40.0% |
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.
+0.2 goals above expected
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games
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.
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 speed34.2 km/h47th pct
- Speed bursts over 20 mph336th pct
- Hardest shot110.9 km/h24th pct
- Distance skated6 km10th pct
- Offensive-zone time37.1%13th pct
Each season against the other forwards 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.
Top skating speed
33.0 km/h0th pct
2025–26 only
Bursts over 20 mph per 60
1.98th pct
2025–26 only
Distance skated per 60
15.7 km63rd pct
2025–26 only
Hardest shot
126.6 km/h5th pct
2025–26 only
Offensive-zone time
44.5%81st pct
2025–26 only