Armchair Scout
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Dmitri Simashev

Utah Mammoth Defense

Six foot four, twenty-eight games, and one point.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2628011-1123000260.015:06
Career28011-1123000260.015:06

Last Season

No goals and one assist in 28 games — one point, minus-11, at 15:06 a night with 23 penalty minutes. His first professional season in North America.

He turned 21 in February.

The Finesse Game

Thirty-five unblocked attempts from a median of 48 feet, 66 per cent from beyond forty, none of them scored.

One point in 28 games is among the lowest returns of any regular in this edition, and it is what a twenty-one-year-old defenceman playing fifteen minutes usually produces.

The first pass is the developed part of the game and the offensive instincts are not there yet.

The Physical Game

Six foot four and 198 pounds, and the skating for that size is genuinely excellent — it is why he went sixth overall. He closes on puck carriers with a long, easy stride and does not get beaten wide.

Twenty-three penalty minutes in 28 games is a fairly high rate. He is thin and will be pushed off the net front until the weight arrives.

The Intangibles

Forty-six point eight per cent of the expected goals, 25th percentile, and 47.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 30th, across 410 minutes, with the goals level at 16-16.

On a club where nine skaters cleared the seventieth percentile, those are below-average figures — in a small sample, in a first season, at twenty-one, on a blue line where he was the sixth option.

He is 21, the sixth pick in 2023, and the minus-11 is the least useful number on this page.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 410 minutes

Expected goals
46.8%
25th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47.5%
30th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 16 for, 16 against. Expected: 16.5 and 18.8.

The eye and the numbers

Report
67
Numbers
25

The numbers are colder on him than this report is — worth asking who he played with, and against whom.

Recent form

Last 17 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

1

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 1 assists, 14 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 410 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.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

35 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 0 of them goals. 9% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 66% from beyond forty.