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Nazem Kadri

35 goals at 34 on 279 shots, 72 penalty minutes, and a minus-17 on the club's first line.

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

2009-10	TOR	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	—	17:26
2010-11	TOR	29	3	9	12	-3	8	0	0	0	51	5.9	15:47
2011-12	TOR	21	5	2	7	+2	8	1	0	1	28	17.9	14:10
2012-13	TOR	48	18	26	44	+15	23	5	0	1	107	16.8	16:03
2013-14	TOR	78	20	30	50	-11	67	7	0	2	148	13.5	17:23
2014-15	TOR	73	18	21	39	-7	28	3	1	1	176	10.2	17:36
2015-16	TOR	76	17	28	45	-15	73	4	0	2	260	6.5	18:16
2016-17	TOR	82	32	29	61	-7	95	12	0	6	236	13.6	16:35
2017-18	TOR	80	32	23	55	+2	42	12	0	3	211	15.2	16:46
2018-19	TOR	73	16	28	44	-2	43	4	0	5	184	8.7	16:11
2019-20	COL	51	19	17	36	+7	97	4	0	1	133	14.3	17:26
2020-21	COL	56	11	21	32	-7	34	3	0	3	170	6.5	16:28
2021-22	COL	71	28	59	87	+13	71	8	0	6	247	11.3	19:14
2022-23	CGY	82	24	32	56	-19	56	11	0	4	267	9.0	17:13
2023-24	CGY	82	29	46	75	0	43	10	0	4	277	10.5	18:26
2024-25	CGY	82	35	32	67	-17	72	9	0	5	279	12.5	19:21
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	985	307	403	710	-50	760	93	1	44	2774	11.1	17:24

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

35 goals and 32 assists in 82 games for 67 points, minus-17, on 19:21 a night and 279 shots — the most on the club by 85.

48.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 41st percentile, with on-ice goals of 40-45 against an expected 48-51. The minus-17 is largely a special-teams and empty-net artefact; the five-on-five play was roughly even.

The Finesse Game

The shot volume is the whole offensive engine of this club. 279 attempts in 82 games at 34 is a remarkable rate, and 12.5 per cent conversion is close to his career mark — he shoots from everywhere and about a third of them come from inside 20 feet.

The hands still work in traffic and 32 assists is a fair return on a club that finished 29th in finishing. What has gone is the first step; he no longer separates from a defenceman and now scores by arriving in the right place rather than by beating anybody.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 185, and he plays as though he is a good deal larger. He goes to the net front, initiates contact, and remains one of the more genuinely disliked opponents of his era.

72 penalty minutes at 34 is the second-highest total on the club and the habit has never softened. On a club whose penalty kill finished 24th, that is a real cost.

The Intangibles

Sixteen seasons, three organisations, a Cup, and a career of being the most useful player nobody wants to play against.

At 34 with 35 goals, the reasonable projection is 25 next season and a decline that arrives suddenly rather than gradually — the game has always depended on effort and volume rather than pace, and volume is the first thing to go.

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
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

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
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:45 a game at five-on-five, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
61% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He goes to the net front, initiates contact, and remains one of the more genuinely disliked opponents of his era.”
nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“He goes to the net front, initiates contact, and remains one of the more genuinely disliked opponents of his era.”
agitatora strength· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“a career of being the most useful player nobody wants to play against”
takes-libertiesa strength· crosses the line and knows where it is
“72 penalty minutes at 34 is the second-highest total on the club and the habit has never softened.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,209 minutes

Expected goals: 48.7%; 41st pct
Shot attempts: 52.6%; 79th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 45 against. Expected: 48.1 and 50.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

93rd

Numbers

41st

The report ranks him 52 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 82 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 21.9 mph; 35th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.87 a game
Distance: 3.23 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.4 mph; 48th 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1209 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, 2024-25

The club: CGY took 48.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.7% — level with the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,209 minutes at five-on-five — 85th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jonathan Huberdeau	49.9%	47.4%	47.9%
Martin Pospisil	48.9%	48.5%	45.5%
Rasmus Andersson	48.6%	48.8%	48.6%

49.9% together, 47.4% for him apart and 47.9% for Huberdeau apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

369 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 33 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.