> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Maple Leafs Prospect Report: Yaroslav Fedoseyev - URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2026-27-maple-leafs-prospect-report-yaroslav-fedoseyev/ - Published: 2026-09-21T13:00:47.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-21T13:00:48.000Z - Description: Fedoseyev's season in Russia has started off with some good signs, but nothing exceptional so far. - Author: Brian S - Tags: Maple Leafs Prospects Last season, Fedoseyev was in his draft year and bounced around all three levels of Russia's top hockey leagues: the MHL junior level, the VHL tweener league, and the KHL as the top pro level. For the most part, though, he moved between the MHL and VHL. I was curious to see what level he'd both wind up starting this season but also where he'd play most of his games by the end of the year. ## STATS AND CONTEXT - **Position**: Right-shot defenseman - **League(s)**: KHL - **Height**: 6'1" - **Weight**: 181 lbs - **Birthdate**: Nov 5th, 2007 - **Drafted**: 161st overall (6th round) The good news is that he broke camp on his organization's KHL squad and he's played in all six of their games so far. He's been the 6th or 7th defensemen in all of those games, basically being the guy that gets swapped with the other guy that's either been the 6th or 7th defensemen on the bottom pair. Traktor, his team, plays their top guys pretty heavily. Their top pair averages over 20 minutes, then they have three guys that average between 17:30 and 19:10, then a drop off to the rest who all average 10-12 minutes. Of all those defensemen, Fedoseyev is among the only four to have dressed in every game this season, though he does average the lowest ice time of them all (10:58). However, Fedoseyev has at least gotten real ice time in every game. The second and third games of the season were his lowest ice times – 8:27 and 7:53 respectively – but the two games this past weekend saw him with the most ice time of the young season, both over 13 minutes. Fedoseyev has also been the team's main PP2 defenseman, in pretty much every game. He's averaged 1:28 per game on the powerplay, though he doesn't have any points so far. And again, that's been trending up – his most recent game saw him play 2:15 on the powerplay. As I said, he has no points so far in his six games but he hasn't been a null factor on offense. He's averaged two shots on net per game the past three games, and he's only taken one minor penalty on the young season. It doesn't help that Traktor has been a pretty low offense team and are tied for the 3rd worst record to start the season. That's in large part due to their lack of offense, with only 10 goals through their first six games. They're a middle of the road team in the KHL for shots on goal, but have the third worst shooting percentage. Lack of opportunity (more ice time) and lack of the team around him scoring on their chances is more why he doesn't have a single point so far than him just not helping the offense generate chances. ## THE EYE TEST So with all of that statistical information out of the way, how has Fedoseyev looked? In some ways, better than I expected – but in other ways, not as good. Overall, I'd say he's been a slightly pleasant surprise to earn a regular spot in the KHL right away, and he hasn't looked out of place even if he isn't exactly dominating. Fedoseyev been mostly good at getting the puck out, passing it up the ice, and then helping facilitate offensive zone possessions both from the blueline and on the rush by attacking up with the forwards where the situation calls for it. I do think that his offense has looked slightly better than his defense so far, mostly from a consistency basis. The biggest adjustment he needs to make is what to do with the time and space he has – or doesn't have. This comes up with his passes on breakouts too, when he's dealing with an aggressive forecheck pursuing him. He can sort of create scoring chances with his passing, skating and playmaking, but so far hasn't had many really dangerous ones that he or his teammates can capitalize on. How far he improves in this area will be the question of how far his offensive ceiling can reach. 0:00 /0:55 1× Yaroslav Fedoseyev (#89) - Offense Highlights On the defensive side of things, Fedoseyev has showed a mixture of maturity and growing pains. In some of the defensive highlights I show below, you can see him directing traffic, reading the rush offense coming at him, boxing out veteran KHL pros in front of the net, and forcing forwards to the outside trying to beat him wide and cut to the net at the last second. That's the good parts of his defensive game so far. The growing pains involve his consistency, and just like with his offensive execution I think Fedoseyev's problems are coming down to his ability to make quick decisions at the pace of the KHL. I've yet to see him make any truly egregious defensive gaffes, but there are some little things with his precise positioning, who he's covering, leaving his spot to chase a hit. Again, these aren't all-the-time problems, just little things that affect his consistency so far. I don't want to say this is an excuse for him, but I do think an added challenge he faces is the quality of his defensive partners in the bottom pairing is... not so great. Here is a description of what the three goals against were like that gave him a -3 rating: 1. The farthest player back retrieving the puck, I believe a forward, had all the time and space in the world but coughed it up at his own blueline which led to a breakaway goal. Fedoseyev was on the far side of the ice in case he wanted a safer outlet, but a bit ahead of him. When Fedoseyev was noticing the cluster fuck that was unfolding and came to help, he got body checked/picked by his own teammate before he could catch up or tie up the puck. 2. Fedoseyev was on the right side defending, his pairing partner on the left where the puck was coming down. Defensive partner just... completely whiffed on the puck ***and*** the puck carrier and, again, Fedoseyev couldn't get to him in time to deflect the puck or affect the shot that led to the goal. 3. On an empty net situation late in the game, the two defensemen came off the ice as the forwards pushed up, but they turned it over and passed it back way up the ice for an easy and unguarded empty net goal before Fedoseyev and his partner had time to really prevent them from getting an easy and open shot off on the empty net. The only one I could quibble with him was the first goal, where I could maybe see a scenario where he should have played further behind his teammate trying to break the puck up the ice just in case a turnover like is what exactly happened. 0:00 /1:44 1× Yaroslav Fedoseyev (#89) - Defense Highlights So that's it for now. No major updates, no huge leap forward that I can see. But I do think it's a noteworthy improvement from his season last year where he has enough maturity and quality to his overall game that he is getting a regular role in the KHL right away. 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