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Nic Dowd
Vegas Golden Knights Center #26
Six hundred and fifty-seven games, the hundred and ninety-eighth pick, and seventy-three penalty minutes.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 75 | 5 | 16 | 21 | -4 | 73 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 66 | 7.6 | 14:32 |
| Career | 657 | 89 | 108 | 197 | +18 | 380 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 664 | 13.4 | 13:12 |
Last Season
Five goals and 16 assists in 75 games — 21 points, minus-four, at 14:32 a night with 73 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Washington.
His 657th career game.
He turned 36 in May.
The Finesse Game
A hundred and three unblocked attempts, six goals, median 21 feet with 48 per cent from inside twenty. The location is right and the volume is a fourth-liner’s.
A hundred and ninety-seven points in 657 career games. Sixteen assists in 75 games is a fair return for the role.
The Physical Game
Six foot two, 195, and a genuinely hard checking centre — he wins faceoffs at one of the best rates in the league, kills penalties, and blocks shots. Seventy-three penalty minutes is a high total for fourteen minutes a night.
The skating has slowed at 36 and the positioning has not.
The Intangibles
Forty-seven per cent of the expected goals, 26th percentile, and 49.1 per cent of the shot attempts, 47th, across 909 minutes in Washington, with the goals 48-45 in his favour.
Those are the hardest defensive minutes on a good club and the numbers are what those minutes produce.
Four points in his last ten. He is 36, a hundred and ninety-eighth overall pick, and exactly the fourth-line centre a club with Vegas’s ambitions carries. Ten seasons of doing the same job well.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 909 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47%
- 26th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.1%
- 47th 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: 48 for, 45 against. Expected: 34.2 and 38.5.
The eye and the numbers
The numbers are colder on him than this report is — worth asking who he played with, and against whom.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
4
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 3 assists, 13 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with WSH · 698 minutes at five-on-five
- Ethen Frank38%
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.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
103 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.