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Photo of NHL player Amir Miftakhov

Carolina Hurricanes Logo Amir Miftakhov

Position Goaltender Current Team Carolina Hurricanes
Catches Left Current Contract 1 year ($775.0K CapHit)
Height 6'0" Expires 2025-26
Weight (lbs) 184 Expiry Age (Jun 30) 26
Age (DOB) 26 (Apr 26, 2000) Expiry Status RFA-arb
Drafted 2020, Round 6, Overall 186 (TBL)
Date Team Transaction
Jul 1, 2025 Carolina Hurricanes Signed 1 year @ $775K AAV starting in 2025-26
May 3, 2021 Tampa Bay Lightning Signed to an entry level contract.
Status History Coming Soon

About Player Cards

Player cards present an infographic of a players performance using a series of Player Archetypes developed for Puckalytics.com and TheStanleyCap.com. The boxes in the rink image show the archetype ratings for the season specified in the card while the graphs to the right show the five-year trends for those archetypes.

Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in pink. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI, Skating (even strength) and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary
  • Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
  • Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
  • 5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
  • Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
  • Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
  • Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
  • Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
  • Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
  • Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
  • Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).
  • 5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
  • Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
  • Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
  • Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
  • 4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Data Sources
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5v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE

4v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE

Legend

Percentile 0-25 Percentile 25-50 Percentile 50-75 Percentile 75-100

Glossary

Statistic Definition
SAA/60Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes.
SA/60Shots Against per 60 minutes.
xGA/60Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes.
GA/60Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
GS/60Goals Saved per 60 minutes (xGA/60 -GA/60).
Sv%Save Percentage.
xSv%Expected Save Percentage.
Sv%AESave Percentage above Expected (Sv% - xSv%).
Data from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16).

Current Contract

Amir Miftakhov signed a $775,000 1-year contract with the Carolina Hurricanes and General Manager Eric Tulsky on July 1, 2025 with an AAV of $775,000. This contract will start in 2025-26 and end after the 2025-26 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 0.81% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (UFA) ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2025-26 25 $775,000 $775,000 - - $775,000 $775,000 $100,000 RFA-arb
Total - - $775,000 $775,000 $100,000
Signed: July 1, 2025
Team: Carolina Hurricanes
Exp. Status: RFA-arb
Cap %: 0.81
Note: Guaranteed minimum salary is $240,000.

Previous Contracts (show) (hide)

Amir Miftakhov signed a $2,515,000 3-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning and General Manager Julien Brisebois on May 3, 2021 with an AAV of $838,333. This contract will start in 2021-22 and end after the 2023-24 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.03% of the salary cap. The Tampa Bay Lightning terminated this contract on July 2, 2022.

Entry Level Contract ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2021-22 21 $838,333 $838,333 - $80,000 $750,000 $830,000 $70,000 ELC
2022-23 22 $838,333 $838,333 - $80,000 $750,000 $830,000 $70,000 ELC
2023-24 23 $838,333 $838,333 - $80,000 $775,000 $855,000 $70,000 ELC
Total - $240,000 $2,275,000 $2,515,000 $210,000
Signed: May 3, 2021
Team: Tampa Bay Lightning
Exp. Status: RFA-arb
Termination: This contract was terminated by Tampa Bay Lightning on July 2, 2022

Career Statistics

Regular Season Playoffs
Season League Team GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv% GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv%
2016-17 WHC-17 Russia U17 5 1.77 0.953
2016-17 MHL Irbis Kazan 26 16 6 2 648 53 2.15 0.918 1 16 1 2.07 0.938
2017-18 WJC-18 Russia U18 5 2 2 119 14 3.31 0.883
2017-18 VHL Bars Kazan 1 1 34 2 1.85 0.941
2017-18 MHL Irbis Kazan 26 15 9 2 753 50 1.91 0.934 5 2 3 141 16 3.22 0.887
2018-19 VHL Bars Kazan 33 13 12 5 913 74 2.40 0.919
2018-19 MHL Irbis Kazan 2 1 1 63 5 2.38 0.921
2019-20 KHL Ak Bars Kazan 2 1 35 4 2.31 0.886
2019-20 WJC-20 Russia U20 5 2 2 86 7 2.12 0.919
2019-20 VHL Bars Kazan 23 8 10 3 517 45 2.19 0.913 8 5 3 3 251 16 2.03 0.936
2020-21 KHL Ak Bars Kazan 7 4 2 169 14 2.25 0.917
2020-21 VHL Bars Kazan 17 6 7 1 441 41 2.73 0.907 3 2 1 1 61 4 1.50 0.934
2021-22 AHL Syracuse Crunch 22 7 8 3 523 57 3.03 0.891
2021-22 ECHL Orlando Solar Bears 5 2 3 138 11 2.23 0.920
2024-25 KHL Ak Bars Kazan 30 13 11 3 820 60 2.18 0.927 2 1 3 7 2 3.68 0.714
2025-26 AHL Chicago Wolves 28 12 8 6 777 87 3.25 0.888