Aliaksei Protas

6-6, 250 pounds, and 25 goals.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2021-22	WSH	33	3	6	9	+4	0	0	0	0	34	8.8	11:50
2022-23	WSH	58	4	11	15	-8	12	0	0	0	83	4.8	11:31
2023-24	WSH	78	6	23	29	-3	8	0	0	1	113	5.3	13:45
2024-25	WSH	76	30	36	66	+40	18	0	3	6	142	21.1	16:27
2025-26	WSH	76	25	27	52	+20	20	0	2	5	159	15.7	18:14
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	321	68	103	171	+53	58	0	5	12	531	12.8	14:51

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

25 goals and 27 assists in 76 games — 52 points, plus-20, at 18:14 a night with only 20 penalty minutes.

171 points in 321 career games.

The Finesse Game

257 unblocked attempts, 22 goals, median 25 feet with 40 per cent from inside 20.

25 goals is a career high and the second season running he has improved by 10. 27 assists says the hands are real — for a man this size the puck skills below the goal line are genuinely unusual.

The Physical Game

6-6 and 250 pounds — only Matt Rempe and Elmer Soderblom weigh more among forwards. 20 penalty minutes in 76 games is remarkably low for a player his size.

That is the criticism and the compliment together: he occupies space and controls pucks rather than punishing people. He is impossible to move off a wall and impossible to check off the puck.

The Intangibles

50.6 per cent of the expected goals, 59th percentile, and 53.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 83rd, across 1,139 minutes, with the goals 60 for and 43 against.

That is a genuinely good second-line season, and the plus-20 has real work underneath it as well as Thompson’s goaltending.

6 points in his last 10, 3 of them goals. He is 25, a 91st overall pick, and Washington has him signed a long time. That is one of the better contracts in the league.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:59 a game at five-on-five, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,139 minutes

Expected goals: 50.6%; 60th pct
Shot attempts: 53.5%; 84th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 60 for, 43 against. Expected: 52.7 and 51.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

92nd

Numbers

60th

The report ranks him 32 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 81 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 76 games

Top speed: 23.1 mph; 89th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.21 a game
Distance: 2.71 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.2 mph; 78th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 3 assists, 22 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1139 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: WSH took 49.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.6% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,139 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Tom Wilson	56.3%	43.5%	52.8%
Martin Fehervary	46.5%	53.1%	50.2%
Jakob Chychrun	53.4%	48.8%	49.0%

56.3% together, 43.5% for him apart and 52.8% for Wilson apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

257 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.