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Ilya Mikheyev
Tampa Bay Lightning Right Wing #95
Undrafted, eighteen goals, and the third percentile.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 77 | 18 | 18 | 36 | +2 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 123 | 14.6 | 17:26 |
| Career | 427 | 98 | 103 | 201 | +38 | 76 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 851 | 11.5 | 15:38 |
Last Season
Eighteen goals and 18 assists in 77 games — 36 points, plus-two, at 17:26 a night with only eighteen penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Chicago.
The Finesse Game
A hundred and seventy-two unblocked attempts, eighteen goals, median 23 feet with 46 per cent from inside twenty — good ice and a good conversion.
Eighteen assists in 77 games is the flat truth about the playmaking. Two hundred and one points in 427 career games.
The Physical Game
Six foot two, 192, and the speed is the whole tool — he is among the fastest forwards in the league and it is what generates the breakaways he is known for.
Eighteen penalty minutes in 77 games is very low, and he does not forecheck with weight or win pucks on a wall.
The Intangibles
Forty-one point five per cent of the expected goals, third percentile, and 44.5 per cent of the shot attempts, ninth, across 1,121 minutes in Chicago — with the chances 38.1 for and 53.9 against.
That is a sixteen-goal deficit in expected goals in a full season’s workload, and it is among the worst figures of any forward in this book.
He is 31, undrafted out of Russia, and joins the club with the third-best possession numbers in the league. If those figures were Chicago rather than him, Tampa has found a cheap eighteen-goal winger. If they were him, this is the first bad line on an otherwise very well-built roster.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1121 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.5%
- 3rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.5%
- 9th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 38 for, 43 against. Expected: 38.1 and 53.9.
The eye and the numbers
The numbers are colder on him than this report is — worth asking who he played with, and against whom.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
9
points in his last 10 games — 5 goals, 4 assists, 19 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with CHI · 1121 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Donato41%
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
172 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.