Brock Nelson

1,000 games of quiet, heavy, reliable centre play, and 33 goals at 34.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2013-14	NYI	72	14	12	26	-10	12	3	0	1	132	10.6	14:16
2014-15	NYI	82	20	22	42	+6	24	10	0	3	190	10.5	15:53
2015-16	NYI	81	26	14	40	-3	30	3	0	3	165	15.8	15:48
2016-17	NYI	81	20	25	45	-6	36	1	0	4	173	11.6	15:39
2017-18	NYI	82	19	16	35	-4	43	4	0	3	138	13.8	14:44
2018-19	NYI	82	25	28	53	+20	28	2	1	3	181	13.8	17:58
2019-20	NYI	68	26	28	54	+6	32	4	0	5	175	14.9	18:52
2020-21	NYI	56	18	15	33	-5	14	7	0	4	121	14.9	17:50
2021-22	NYI	72	37	22	59	-5	33	11	0	5	171	21.6	17:41
2022-23	NYI	82	36	39	75	+13	24	6	0	8	222	16.2	18:26
2023-24	NYI	82	34	35	69	-5	28	9	1	2	250	13.6	18:05
2024-25	NYI/COL	80	26	30	56	+8	18	3	3	7	193	13.5	18:55
2025-26	COL	81	33	32	65	+15	36	10	0	9	186	17.7	19:39
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1001	334	318	652	+30	358	73	5	57	2297	14.5	17:12

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

33 goals and 65 points in 81 games, plus-15, 10 of the goals on the power play, on 19 and a half minutes a night. He passed 1,000 career games.

The Finesse Game

The shot is better than his reputation — a quick, heavy release from the slot, and a large share of his goals come from the net front where he is very difficult to move. 334 career goals is a lot for a player almost nobody would name as a scorer.

He is a capable playmaker and a poor puck-carrier. The offence comes from arriving in the right place rather than from creating anything at speed.

The skating is heavy. He was never quick and is less so now.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 205, and he uses it properly — he protects pucks below the goal line, screens goaltenders, and wins his share of faceoffs against bigger centres.

He is remarkably durable. 81 games is normal for him and has been for a decade.

The Intangibles

He spent his whole career on Long Island being underrated and is now doing the same thing in Colorado, which is a compliment to how little his game depends on being noticed.

At 34 the goals will start to go. Everything else about him — the size, the faceoffs, the reliability — declines slowly, which is why clubs keep wanting this type in the spring.

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.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

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.

durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,121 minutes

Expected goals: 58%; 97th pct
Shot attempts: 57.5%; 96th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 60 for, 38 against. Expected: 59.1 and 42.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

92nd

Numbers

97th

The two rank him within 5 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 — 81 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.6 mph; 70th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.85 a game
Distance: 3.25 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.5 mph; 60th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 6 assists, 19 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1121 minutes at five-on-five

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: COL took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 58.0% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,121 minutes at five-on-five — 73rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Valeri Nichushkin	58.9%	56.9%	55.6%
Brent Burns	55.3%	59.8%	55.0%
Josh Manson	59.0%	57.4%	55.7%

58.9% together, 56.9% for him apart and 55.6% for Nichushkin apart. Nichushkin was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Nichushkin than for him.

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

268 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 32 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.