Adam Wilsby
Nashville Predators Defense
15 assists from the third pair, and the best possession share of any Nashville defenceman.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | NSH | 23 | 1 | 4 | 5 | +3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 3.0 | 18:06 |
| 2025-26 | NSH | 58 | 1 | 15 | 16 | +2 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 1.7 | 17:01 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 81 | 2 | 19 | 21 | +5 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 2.2 | 17:19 |
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
1 goal and 15 assists in 58 games — 16 points, plus-2, at 17:01 a night. His first real NHL season, at 25.
The Finesse Game
A mover rather than a shooter. 91 unblocked attempts from a median of 52 feet, 13 per cent inside 20, 1 goal.
15 assists in 58 games from a third pair is a good rate and comes from a quick, accurate first pass under pressure. 21 points in 81 career games.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 188 pounds, which is light. 29 penalty minutes. He is not clearing a crease and he avoids the corners where he can; the defending is angles and stick.
The Intangibles
46.8 per cent of the expected goals, 26th percentile, and 50.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 65th — second among the club’s defencemen to Barron, in 902 minutes.
On a blue line where Skjei sits at the 34th percentile in attempts, Perbix at the 29th and Lyubushkin arrives from the 3rd, that is worth something, and a fourth-round pick playing 17 minutes at 25 is a fair outcome.
4 points in his last 10. He is 26 and this is probably his level: a puck-moving third-pair defenceman who does not sink a pair. Nashville needs several more of those before it needs anything else.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 902 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.8%
- 27th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.9%
- 67th 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: 31 for, 34 against. Expected: 33.5 and 38.0.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 16 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
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 — 64 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 · 58 games
- Top speed
- 22.5 mph
- 82nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.17 a game
- Distance
- 2.55 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.6 mph
- 50th 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
4
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 4 assists, 14 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 902 minutes at five-on-five
- Brady Skjei33%
- Roman Josi19%
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
- NSH took 47.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.8% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 902 minutes at five-on-five — 49th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brady Skjei | 47.0% | 46.7% | 47.6% |
| Filip Forsberg | 45.3% | 47.7% | 49.7% |
| Ryan O'Reilly | 44.1% | 48.1% | 52.0% |
47.0% together, 46.7% for him apart and 47.6% for Skjei apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
91 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 37 feet. 13% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 67% from beyond forty.