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Emil Heineman
New York Islanders Left Wing
Acquired from Montreal in the Noah Dobson trade, with 10 goals in 62 games at eleven minutes a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | MTL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 9:57 |
| 2024-25 | MTL | 62 | 10 | 8 | 18 | -6 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 15.6 | 11:24 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 66 | 10 | 8 | 18 | -4 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 15.6 | 11:19 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
62 games with Montreal, 10 goals and 8 assists for 18 points at 11:24 a night, on 64 shots at 15.63 per cent. 20 penalty minutes. Minus-6. He came to the Islanders in June as part of the return for Noah Dobson.
Ten goals on 64 shots at eleven minutes a night is a good rate on very little ice time, and the conversion percentage is high enough that it should be read with caution.
The Finesse Game
The release is quick and he shoots without hesitating, which is the most marketable thing about him — a fourth- line winger who scores ten goals in eleven minutes is doing something the roster needs.
The playmaking is limited: 8 assists in 62 games. He goes north with the puck and he does not hold it to make a play, and at 23 that is as likely to be coaching as it is to be ceiling.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 204 and he forechecks hard and finishes checks. He is willing on the wall and does not get moved off a puck easily.
20 penalty minutes in 62 games is a reasonable rate, and on a club whose penalty kill finished 25th it matters more than usual.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, traded twice before 24 — first in the Tyler Toffoli deal, then as part of the price of a top-four defenceman.
He is 23 and cheap and he arrived on a club with room in its bottom six. Being the secondary piece in a trade made for draft picks is the cheapest kind of opportunity there is, and it is the kind most likely to be taken.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“6-2 and 204 and he forechecks hard and finishes checks.”
“he forechecks hard”
“He is willing on the wall”
“does not get moved off a puck easily”
“The playmaking is limited: 8 assists in 62 games. He goes north with the puck and he does not hold it to make a play”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 652 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.8%
- 33rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.1%
- 44th 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: 21 for, 27 against. Expected: 22.2 and 24.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 20 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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, 2024-25 · 62 games
- Top speed
- 22.9 mph
- 82nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.24 a game
- Distance
- 1.89 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.8 mph
- 83rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with MTL · 652 minutes at five-on-five
- Jake Evans58%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- MTL took 48.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.8% — 0.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 652 minutes at five-on-five — 25th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Armia | 49.1% | 45.9% | 41.2% |
| Jake Evans | 49.2% | 45.6% | 48.0% |
| Lane Hutson | 53.6% | 45.0% | 52.1% |
49.1% together, 45.9% for him apart and 41.2% for Armia apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
112 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 28% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 29% from beyond forty.