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Nick Foligno

The captain at 37, 35 points, and 60 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

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

2007-08	OTT	45	6	3	9	0	20	0	0	0	44	13.6	9:10
2008-09	OTT	81	17	15	32	-10	59	7	0	2	145	11.7	13:41
2009-10	OTT	61	9	17	26	+6	53	2	0	2	83	10.8	14:19
2010-11	OTT	82	14	20	34	-19	43	5	0	3	149	9.4	15:35
2011-12	OTT	82	15	32	47	+2	124	1	0	3	153	9.8	14:39
2012-13	CBJ	45	6	13	19	+6	28	1	0	2	69	8.7	16:31
2013-14	CBJ	70	18	21	39	+5	96	3	0	5	111	16.2	16:04
2014-15	CBJ	79	31	42	73	+16	50	11	0	3	182	17.0	18:50
2015-16	CBJ	72	12	25	37	-14	53	0	0	2	149	8.1	16:54
2016-17	CBJ	79	26	25	51	-4	55	11	0	5	185	14.1	18:26
2017-18	CBJ	72	15	18	33	+1	50	2	0	1	137	10.9	18:21
2018-19	CBJ	73	17	18	35	+12	44	2	0	2	141	12.1	17:42
2019-20	CBJ	67	10	21	31	-3	62	2	0	1	131	7.6	18:40
2020-21	CBJ/TOR	49	7	13	20	+2	32	1	0	0	81	8.6	17:46
2021-22	BOS	64	2	11	13	-13	61	0	0	0	99	2.0	12:28
2022-23	BOS	60	10	16	26	+18	45	2	0	1	71	14.1	12:22
2023-24	CHI	74	17	20	37	-29	57	8	1	0	146	11.6	17:46
2024-25	CHI	78	15	20	35	-17	48	2	2	1	104	14.4	15:55
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1233	247	350	597	-41	980	60	3	33	2180	11.3	16:00

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

15 goals and 20 assists in 78 games for 35 points, minus-17, on 15:55 a night with 2 shorthanded goals.

44.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 16th percentile, which on this roster is above average. 60 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 14 — the most extreme interior profile on the club, at 37 years old.

The Finesse Game

Limited and directed with total precision. He does not carry the puck and does not create off the rush; 104 shots in 78 games all come from the paint and the inside lane, and 14.4 per cent conversion is what those locations produce.

20 assists is a fair total. There is no skill here that has not been compensating for lost pace for five years.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 210, and he is still one of the more willing forwards in the league to go where it hurts. He fights, he blocks shots, he stands in front of a goaltender, and at 37 he has not adjusted the temperature at all.

48 penalty minutes over 78 games. The durability across eighteen seasons of playing this way is remarkable.

The Intangibles

Eighteen seasons, six organisations, a captaincy on a club with a 19-year-old franchise player, and a role that is at least half about the room.

That is a real job on this roster and it is being done. What a scouting report can add is that at 37, on a team that lost 57 games, the on-ice value is close to the end and the club knows it.

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
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
64.8% of his attempts in the slot, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“he stands in front of a goaltender”
shot-blockera strength· gets in front of it
“he blocks shots”
nastya strength· hard to play against; the edge is the point
“He fights, he blocks shots, he stands in front of a goaltender, and at 37 he has not adjusted the temperature at all.”
transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control
“He does not carry the puck and does not create off the rush”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“a captaincy on a club with a 19-year-old franchise player, and a role that is at least half about the room.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 948 minutes

Expected goals: 44.9%; 16th pct
Shot attempts: 46.9%; 24th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 50 against. Expected: 32.3 and 39.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

76th

Numbers

16th

The report ranks him 60 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 — 77 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 · 78 games

Top speed: 21.3 mph; 13th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.19 a game
Distance: 2.32 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.3 mph; 61st 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 · 948 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: CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.9% — 1.7 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 948 minutes at five-on-five — 53rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Alex Vlasic	43.0%	46.1%	42.5%
Connor Murphy	46.8%	44.2%	45.9%
Teuvo Teravainen	49.7%	43.2%	45.0%

43.0% together, 46.1% for him apart and 42.5% for Vlasic apart. He was better away from Vlasic, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Vlasic.

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

125 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 60% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.