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Shakir Mukhamadullin
San Jose Sharks Defense
Six-foot-four, a first-round pick acquired in the Timo Meier trade, and 18 minutes a night in a 30-game debut.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 33 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 5.7 | 18:21 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
2 goals and 7 assists in 30 games — 9 points at 18:04 a night, minus-7, on 8 penalty minutes.
45.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 21st percentile, across 485 minutes. His ice went 13-20 against an expectation of 14.98-18.21, which on that sample is close to what the chances predicted.
The Finesse Game
30 attempts in 30 games at a median of 52 feet with 69 per cent from beyond 40 and 12 per cent from inside 20 — a higher share from close range than any other defenceman on this roster, which says he joins the rush.
7 assists in 30 games is a genuinely promising rate. He carries the puck out of his own zone, he is comfortable under pressure, and the first pass is ambitious in a way that will occasionally cost him.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 200 and still filling out. He has the reach to defend the rush without contact and he is not yet strong enough to move a grown forward off the front of his own net.
8 penalty minutes in 30 games is a very low rate. He is not beaten badly enough to foul often, and the physicality is a projection rather than a fact.
The Intangibles
Twentieth overall in 2020 by New Jersey, and acquired by San Jose in the 2023 trade that sent Timo Meier the other way — the most important asset in it.
33 NHL games after two full American League seasons. He is 23, and on a blue line whose best player is a 5-11 shot-blocker, he is the only defenceman here with a top-four ceiling.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“He carries the puck out of his own zone, he is comfortable under pressure, and the first pass is ambitious in a way that will occasionally cost him.”
“He has the reach to defend the rush without contact and he is not yet strong enough to move a grown forward off the front of his own net.”
“He has the reach to defend the rush without contact and he is not yet strong enough to move a grown forward off the front of his own net.”
“He is not beaten badly enough to foul often, and the physicality is a projection rather than a fact.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 485 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.1%
- 17th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.8%
- 32nd 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: 13 for, 20 against. Expected: 15.0 and 18.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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, 2024-25 · 30 games
- Top speed
- 21.4 mph
- 39th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.43 a game
- Distance
- 2.61 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.1 mph
- 29th 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 89.7
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 485 minutes at five-on-five
- Jan Ruttaoff the roster22%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- SJS took 44.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.1% — 0.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 485 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Ferraro | 49.2% | 40.6% | 46.0% |
| Alexander Wennberg | 52.2% | 42.5% | 43.3% |
| Will Smith | 49.2% | 43.3% | 44.8% |
49.2% together, 40.6% for him apart and 46.0% for Ferraro apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
52 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 66 feet. 12% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 69% from beyond forty.