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Ilya Mikheyev

Undrafted, 18 goals, and the 3rd percentile.

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

2019-20	TOR	39	8	15	23	+7	4	0	1	1	98	8.2	15:35
2020-21	TOR	54	7	10	17	+5	6	0	0	2	107	6.5	14:13
2021-22	TOR	53	21	11	32	+16	26	4	4	4	147	14.3	15:16
2022-23	VAN	46	13	15	28	+3	2	1	0	2	91	14.3	16:55
2023-24	VAN	78	11	20	31	+1	4	0	0	1	147	7.5	14:16
2024-25	CHI	80	20	14	34	+4	16	0	3	3	138	14.5	15:41
2025-26	CHI	77	18	18	36	+2	18	0	1	2	123	14.6	17:26
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	427	98	103	201	+38	76	5	9	15	851	11.5	15:38

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

18 goals and 18 assists in 77 games — 36 points, plus-2, at 17:26 a night with only 18 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Chicago.

The Finesse Game

172 unblocked attempts, 18 goals, median 23 feet with 46 per cent from inside 20 — good ice and a good conversion.

18 assists in 77 games is the flat truth about the playmaking. 201 points in 427 career games.

The Physical Game

6-2, 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.

18 penalty minutes in 77 games is very low, and he does not forecheck with weight or win pucks on a wall.

The Intangibles

41.6 per cent of the expected goals, 4th percentile, and 44.6 per cent of the shot attempts, ninth, across 1,121 minutes in Chicago — with the chances 38.7 for and 54.3 against.

That is a 16-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 18-goal winger. If they were him, this is the first bad line on an otherwise very well-built roster.

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.

hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
32% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 6th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,121 minutes

Expected goals: 41.6%; 4th pct
Shot attempts: 44.6%; 10th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 43 against. Expected: 38.7 and 54.3.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

44th

Numbers

4th

The report ranks him 40 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 — 71 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 · 77 games

Top speed: 23.5 mph; 95th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.52 a game
Distance: 2.73 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.8 mph; 68th 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 — 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

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 41.6% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 1,121 minutes at five-on-five — 73rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Alex Vlasic	42.2%	41.0%	40.1%
Louis Crevier	42.6%	40.8%	40.9%
Jason Dickinson	46.0%	38.7%	44.8%

42.2% together, 41.0% for him apart and 40.1% for Vlasic 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

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.