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Shakir Mukhamadullin
Edmonton Oilers Defense #85
A long, mobile 6-4 Russian defenseman who has just started to look like the first-round pick he was.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | SJS | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 21:09 |
| 2024-25 | SJS | 30 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 6.7 | 18:04 |
| 2025-26 | SJS | 50 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -3 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 49 | 10.2 | 17:09 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 83 | 7 | 15 | 22 | -10 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 84 | 8.3 | 17:38 |
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
5 goals and 12 points in 50 games for San Jose, 17 minutes a night, minus-3 on a team that spent most of the year being outplayed. That last part matters when reading the number.
The Finesse Game
The reach is the first thing you notice. At 6-4 with a long stick he takes away passing lanes without moving, and he defends the rush by simply being in the way of 2 options at once.
He skates well for the size — smooth rather than fast, comfortable turning and retrieving, and willing to carry the puck through the neutral zone rather than chip it. The first pass is competent and getting better; he no longer looks rushed when a forechecker arrives, which was the main knock on him coming out of the minors.
Offensively he is a work in progress. The shot from the point is fine, the instincts for when to activate are not yet reliable, and the 12 points reflect a player still learning where he is allowed to go.
The Physical Game
200 pounds on a 6-4 frame, so there is filling out still to do. He uses his length more than his body and can be out-muscled in front of the net by heavier forwards.
The Intangibles
He was the twentieth pick in 2020 and went to San Jose in the Timo Meier trade, and his development ran slower than most first-rounders because of the route he took through Russia and the AHL. Last season was the first that looked like a real NHL player rather than a prospect.
24 this season, on a team that needs left-side depth. This is the year that tells you what he is.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 797 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.8%
- 27th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.7%
- 10th 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: 30 for, 33 against. Expected: 27.9 and 31.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 34 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 — 74 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 · 50 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 48th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.66 a game
- Distance
- 2.48 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.9 mph
- 52nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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
2
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 1 assists, 16 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with SJS · 782 minutes at five-on-five
- Dmitry Orlov14%
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
- SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.8% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 797 minutes at five-on-five — 38th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Ferraro | 45.3% | 49.0% | 47.5% |
| William Eklund | 43.7% | 48.1% | 51.1% |
| Alexander Wennberg | 42.2% | 48.4% | 48.4% |
45.3% together, 49.0% for him apart and 47.5% for Ferraro apart. He was better away from Ferraro, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Ferraro.
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
67 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 39 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 73% from beyond forty.