Zeev Buium
Vancouver Canucks Defense #8
Twenty years old, twenty-six points, and minus thirty-three.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 76 | 6 | 20 | 26 | -33 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 73 | 8.2 | 19:35 |
| Career | 76 | 6 | 20 | 26 | -33 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 73 | 8.2 | 19:35 |
Last Season
Six goals and 20 assists in 76 games — 26 points, minus-33, at 19:35 a night with three power-play goals and 41 penalty minutes. His first professional season.
He turned 20 in December.
The Finesse Game
The skating and the passing are why he went twelfth overall and both are already NHL quality. He escapes forechecks by turning through them and the outlet is quick and accurate.
A hundred and eleven unblocked attempts from a median of 46 feet, 62 per cent from beyond forty, six goals. Twenty assists in a rookie season at nineteen and twenty is a genuinely strong return.
The Physical Game
Six foot even and 183 pounds, and a teenager. Forty-one penalty minutes.
He cannot defend a net front, is moved by anybody who chooses to, and will be until two summers have passed.
The Intangibles
Forty-four per cent of the expected goals, tenth percentile, and 47.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 30th, across 1,263 minutes — a genuine top-four workload for a nineteen-year-old.
The minus-33 is the joint third-worst figure in this book, and it belongs to a club that conceded 210 goals at five-on-five and got .8755 from its starting goaltender.
Five points in his last ten. He is 20, and the only fair reading of this page is that Vancouver put a teenager in nineteen and a half minutes a night on the worst defensive team in the league and he produced twenty-six points. The minus is the club’s, not his.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1263 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44%
- 10th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.5%
- 30th 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: 37 for, 60 against. Expected: 47.7 and 60.6.
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
5
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 4 assists, 17 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 793 minutes at five-on-five
- Filip Hronek47%
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
111 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 62% from beyond forty.