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Artyom Levshunov

The second pick in 2024, minus 41, and 24 points to show for it.

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

2024-25	CHI	18	0	6	6	-13	8	0	0	0	21	0.0	20:19
2025-26	CHI	68	2	22	24	-41	44	1	0	0	84	2.4	19:35
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	86	2	28	30	-54	52	1	0	0	105	1.9	19:44

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

2 goals and 22 assists in 68 games — 24 points, minus-41, at 19:35 a night. His first full NHL season, at 20.

The Finesse Game

The skating is genuinely good for a 6-2 defenceman and it is the reason he went 2nd overall. He can carry the puck out of trouble and he wants the puck, which at his age is the harder half to teach.

22 assists is a fair rookie return. The shot is not a factor: 128 unblocked attempts from a median of 45 feet, 9 per cent inside 20, 2 goals.

The Physical Game

6-2, 208, and willing. 44 penalty minutes in 68 games suggests he is competing rather than hiding, which given the scoreline most nights is worth noting.

He is beaten in front of his own net by stronger men, which is ordinary at 20 and is not ordinary at 19:35 a night.

The Intangibles

Minus-41 is the second-worst figure in this book, behind Brock Boeser, and it wants context in both directions. The context for it: Chicago was the worst team in the league by expected goals and he played nearly 20 minutes a night as a rookie defenceman. The context against it: 42.3 per cent of the expected goals, 6th percentile, and the expected goals 41.3 to 56.4 against, so the process agrees with the scoreboard.

3 points in his last 10.

He is 20 and a 2nd overall pick, and this was a season played under conditions no development plan would choose. There is no verdict available here. There is a warning that a club has burned a year of him.

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.

sheltered· is started in the attacking end
59% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 93rd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,063 minutes

Expected goals: 42.3%; 6th pct
Shot attempts: 45.1%; 13th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 34 for, 61 against. Expected: 41.3 and 56.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

27th

Numbers

6th

The report ranks him 21 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 — 68 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 · 68 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 69th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.63 a game
Distance: 2.82 miles a game
Hardest shot: 93.2 mph; 67th 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 — 0 goals, 3 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1063 minutes at five-on-five

Wyatt Kaiser41%
Matt Grzelcykoff the roster34%
Alex Vlasic20%

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: CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.3% — 0.9 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second pair, 1,063 minutes at five-on-five — 68th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Wyatt Kaiser	42.6%	42.0%	44.8%
Andre Burakovsky	46.0%	39.7%	45.2%
Ryan Greene	44.1%	41.2%	42.1%

42.6% together, 42.0% for him apart and 44.8% for Kaiser apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

128 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 33 feet. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 62% from beyond forty.