Nathan Walker

5-9, 275 games, and the first Australian in the National Hockey League.

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

2017-18	WSH/EDM	9	1	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	6	16.7	9:27
2018-19	WSH	3	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	2	0.0	8:09
2019-20	STL	5	1	1	2	-2	4	0	0	0	6	16.7	11:08
2020-21	STL	8	1	0	1	-4	2	0	0	0	10	10.0	13:30
2021-22	STL	30	8	4	12	+1	2	0	0	2	38	21.1	11:33
2022-23	STL	56	2	8	10	+10	25	0	0	1	43	4.7	10:17
2023-24	STL	45	7	6	13	-1	18	0	0	0	43	16.3	10:49
2024-25	STL	73	8	8	16	-5	63	0	0	0	72	11.1	12:06
2025-26	STL	46	4	7	11	-9	28	0	0	1	38	10.5	11:59
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	275	32	35	67	-9	150	0	0	4	258	12.4	11:20

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

4 goals and 7 assists in 46 games — 11 points, minus-9, at 11:59 a night with 28 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

59 unblocked attempts, 4 goals, median 21 feet with 47 per cent from inside 20. The location is right and the volume is a fourth-liner’s.

67 points in 275 career games. 7 assists in 46 games is the honest rate.

The Physical Game

5-9 and 191 pounds, and thick for the height — he forechecks hard, finishes checks well above his weight, and gets to the front of the net. 28 penalty minutes.

He has spent a career being the smallest man on the ice and playing as though he had not noticed.

The Intangibles

46.4 per cent of the expected goals, 24th percentile, and 44.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 9th, across 500 minutes.

That is a middling fourth-line season, which is all the role asks.

2 points in his last 10. He is 32, a third-round pick, and the first player developed in Australia to reach the National Hockey League — 275 games into a career that was not supposed to happen at all.

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.

hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
34% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 10th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 500 minutes

Expected goals: 46.4%; 24th pct
Shot attempts: 44.4%; 9th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 19 for, 29 against. Expected: 16.1 and 18.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

33rd

Numbers

24th

The two rank him within 9 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 — 69 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 · 46 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 79th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.46 a game
Distance: 1.89 miles a game
Hardest shot: 82.7 mph; 34th 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, 1 assists, 11 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 500 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: STL took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.4% — 3.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 500 minutes at five-on-five — 17th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Alexey Toropchenko	41.1%	53.1%	42.4%
Philip Broberg	48.5%	45.1%	52.0%
Oskar Sundqvist	44.1%	47.5%	40.5%

41.1% together, 53.1% for him apart and 42.4% for Toropchenko apart. He was better away from Toropchenko, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Toropchenko.

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

59 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 47% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 27% from beyond forty.