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Frank Nazar
Chicago Blackhawks Center #91
41 points in 66 games at 21, and nothing underneath it that agrees.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | CHI | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 50.0 | 16:09 |
| 2024-25 | CHI | 53 | 12 | 14 | 26 | -11 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 91 | 13.2 | 15:52 |
| 2025-26 | CHI | 66 | 15 | 26 | 41 | -21 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 138 | 10.9 | 18:19 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 122 | 28 | 40 | 68 | -36 | 50 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 231 | 12.1 | 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
15 goals and 26 assists in 66 games — 41 points, minus-21, at 18:19 a night.
The Finesse Game
The skating is the best on the roster and one of the better sets of wheels in the league — genuinely explosive, with a first 3 strides that separate him from defencemen who are not expecting it.
The shot selection is sound: 43 per cent of his unblocked attempts inside 20 feet, median 24, and 16 goals. He is getting to the middle, which most of this forward group does not.
26 assists at 21 in a top-6 role on a bad team is a real rate.
The Physical Game
5-10, 190, and light. 26 penalty minutes. He is not winning wall battles and he does not need to if he keeps arriving first, but against a defence that closes quickly the speed stops being enough.
The Intangibles
42.7 per cent of the expected goals, 5th percentile, in nearly 900 minutes.
That number should be read the way every Chicago number should. The club was 43.2 per cent. Nazar was slightly below a team that was worst in the league, in top-6 minutes, at 21.
7 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals. He was the thirteenth pick in 2022 and he is the second-best forward on this roster. Alongside Bedard and Moore he is one of 3 young centres the club is developing at once, which is either a plan or an admission.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 895 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.7%
- 7th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45%
- 12th 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: 36 for, 46 against. Expected: 32.2 and 43.3.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 48 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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 · 66 games
- Top speed
- 23.8 mph
- 98th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.88 a game
- Distance
- 2.93 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 94.0 mph
- 95th 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 83.6
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
7
points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 3 assists, 28 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 895 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Donato18%
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
- CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.7% — 0.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 895 minutes at five-on-five — 47th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Bertuzzi | 42.8% | 42.5% | 46.3% |
| Teuvo Teravainen | 44.0% | 41.5% | 39.7% |
| Alex Vlasic | 38.6% | 44.6% | 41.5% |
42.8% together, 42.5% for him apart and 46.3% for Bertuzzi apart. Bertuzzi was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
218 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.