Maxim Shabanov
Minnesota Wild Right Wing
An undrafted KHL scorer who arrived at 25 and looked, in a bottom-6 role, like he could do more.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | NYI | 44 | 5 | 13 | 18 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 8.9 | 13:41 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 44 | 5 | 13 | 18 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 8.9 | 13:41 |
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
5 goals and 18 points in 44 games on 13 and a half minutes a night, with 2 penalty minutes all season. 18 points in that role, in a first North American year, is a better return than it looks.
The Finesse Game
The skill is real and it is why a club signed a 25-year-old out of Russia. He is quick in small areas, he makes plays through traffic that most bottom-6 forwards do not attempt, and 13 assists against 5 goals says a player looking to create rather than finish.
56 shots in 44 games is a decent volume, and the release is good. What has not yet been established is whether the creativity survives against harder competition — most of his minutes came in sheltered spots.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 167, and there is no getting around it. He does not go to the interior, he is removed from pucks along the wall by anybody who wants to, and 2 penalty minutes across a season describes a player who avoids contested areas entirely.
The Intangibles
He was a genuine star in the KHL, which historically translates unevenly. The early evidence here is encouraging without being conclusive.
The realistic projection is a skilled middle-6 winger who needs a spot alongside players who can win pucks for him. On a team that just lost 2 veterans, the opening exists.
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.05 penalty minutes a game over 44, 1st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 517 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.9%
- 5th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.3%
- 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: 24 for, 26 against. Expected: 18.7 and 26.0.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 44 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 — 72 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 · 44 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 23rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.20 a game
- Distance
- 2.22 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.2 mph
- 53rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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
3
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 2 assists, 19 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with NYI · 517 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
- NYI took 48.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.9% — 6.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 517 minutes at five-on-five — 18th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Schaefer | 47.4% | 39.0% | 51.3% |
| Scott Mayfield | 39.1% | 43.1% | 48.5% |
| Tony DeAngelo | 44.8% | 40.1% | 49.0% |
47.4% together, 39.0% for him apart and 51.3% for Schaefer apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Schaefer and did not follow him.
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
84 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.