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Nick Foligno
Chicago Blackhawks Left Wing
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.
45.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 18th 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 948 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.9%
- 18th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.2%
- 26th 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: 44 for, 44 against. Expected: 32.9 and 38.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 58 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 357 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.
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 45.9% — 2.7 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 | 44.6% | 46.7% | 41.0% |
| Connor Murphy | 47.6% | 45.2% | 44.6% |
| Teuvo Teravainen | 46.3% | 45.7% | 45.5% |
44.6% together, 46.7% for him apart and 41.0% for Vlasic apart. Vlasic was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Vlasic 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
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.