Nick Cousins

92 penalty minutes at 33, and 723 games.

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

2014-15	PHI	11	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	6	0.0	8:49
2015-16	PHI	36	6	5	11	+5	4	0	0	1	41	14.6	10:44
2016-17	PHI	60	6	10	16	-6	31	1	0	0	99	6.1	12:00
2017-18	ARI	71	12	7	19	-7	31	1	0	1	119	10.1	12:52
2018-19	ARI	81	7	20	27	-8	35	1	0	2	144	4.9	13:33
2019-20	MTL/VGK	65	10	15	25	0	35	3	0	0	115	8.7	13:31
2020-21	NSH	52	5	13	18	+4	41	0	0	1	60	8.3	13:22
2021-22	NSH	68	9	13	22	-8	31	3	0	1	103	8.7	12:28
2022-23	FLA	79	9	18	27	-1	38	0	0	2	102	8.8	11:02
2023-24	FLA	69	7	8	15	+1	64	0	0	3	111	6.3	12:11
2024-25	OTT	50	6	9	15	-1	41	0	0	0	68	8.8	11:54
2025-26	OTT	81	9	14	23	+8	92	0	0	1	79	11.4	11:25
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	723	86	132	218	-12	445	9	0	12	1047	8.2	12:16

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

9 goals and 14 assists in 81 games — 23 points, plus-8, at 11:25 a night with 92 penalty minutes, the most on the club.

The Finesse Game

Modest and correctly placed. 100 unblocked attempts with 49 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 22, and 9 goals.

218 points in 723 career games. He is not here to score and everybody knows it.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 191 pounds, and one of the most disliked opponents in the league. 92 penalty minutes, a long record of crossing lines, and a willingness to fight men who outweigh him considerably.

He forechecks hard and talks constantly, and clubs keep signing him because that is worth something in April.

The Intangibles

53.9 per cent of the expected goals, 82nd percentile, and 52.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 75th, with the goals 36-27 in his favour across 917 minutes.

Those are genuinely good fourth-line numbers on the best defensive team in the league.

He is 33, a third-round pick, 12 seasons in. 3 points in his last 10. This is the modern version of the agitator job — small, quick enough to play a real shift, and no longer required to fight for a living to justify the roster spot.

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.

durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 917 minutes

Expected goals: 53.9%; 82nd pct
Shot attempts: 52.2%; 76th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 27 against. Expected: 34.8 and 29.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

44th

Numbers

82nd

The numbers rank him 38 points above where the report does. 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 — 71 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 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 44th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.47 a game
Distance: 1.93 miles a game
Hardest shot: 86.6 mph; 60th 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, 2 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 917 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: OTT took 54.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.9% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 917 minutes at five-on-five — 51st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Michael Amadio	54.4%	53.5%	51.0%
Shane Pinto	57.5%	51.4%	51.7%
Artem Zub	50.3%	56.2%	52.7%

54.4% together, 53.5% for him apart and 51.0% for Amadio apart. Amadio was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Amadio 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

100 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.