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Emil Heineman
New York Islanders Left Wing #51
Twenty-two goals and nine assists, which is one of the strangest splits in this book.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 82 | 22 | 9 | 31 | -13 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 174 | 12.6 | 16:37 |
| Career | 148 | 32 | 17 | 49 | -17 | 38 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 238 | 13.5 | 14:15 |
Last Season
Twenty-two goals and nine assists in all 82 games — 31 points, minus-13, at 16:37 a night with four power-play goals.
The Finesse Game
Twenty-two goals and nine assists is a ratio almost nobody posts. He shoots, and when he does not shoot the play ends.
Two hundred and fifty-six unblocked attempts from a median of 29 feet with only 30 per cent from inside twenty — a lot of volume from middle distance, converted at a rate that will not repeat.
The release is genuinely quick. Nothing else about the offensive game is developed.
The Physical Game
Six foot two, 204, and he forechecks hard and straight. Eighteen penalty minutes in 82 games is low for the way he plays.
The speed is real and it is what gets him to the loose puck first.
The Intangibles
Forty-eight point eight per cent of the expected goals, 43rd percentile, with the goals 40-39 across 1,122 minutes — the only Islander forward whose actual goals came out level.
Five points in his last ten, four of them goals.
He is 24, a second-round pick, and forty-nine points into 148 career games. A twenty-goal winger who cannot pass is a real thing and a limited one; the question is whether nine assists is the floor or the ceiling.