Nick Lardis
Chicago Blackhawks Left Wing
10 goals in 41 games at 20, and 165 pounds to carry into next season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | CHI | 41 | 10 | 5 | 15 | -18 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 17.5 | 12:40 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 41 | 10 | 5 | 15 | -18 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 17.5 | 12:40 |
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
10 goals and 5 assists in 41 games — 15 points, minus-18, at 12:40 a night. His first NHL season, at 20.
The Finesse Game
A shooter, and the rate says so: 10 goals from 100 unblocked attempts in 41 games of fourth-line ice time. The release is quick and he gets it away before the defender expects it.
The location is respectable rather than brave — 31 per cent inside 20 feet, median 28. He is scoring from the middle distance on a team with no screens, which is the harder version.
5 assists in 41 games is the flat truth about the rest of the offensive game.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 165 pounds, level with Logan Stankoven for the lightest skater in this edition — and unlike Stankoven, he does not yet have the strength or the edges to make it irrelevant. 10 penalty minutes in 41 games.
He is removed from pucks by anyone who reaches him.
The Intangibles
43.1 per cent of the expected goals, 8th percentile, in 457 minutes, which on this roster is one of the better forward marks.
6 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals. A third-round pick who scored at a 20-goal pace as a rookie on the worst offensive team in hockey.
The scoring is real and the body is not ready. Those 2 facts will fight it out over the next 2 seasons.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 457 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.1%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.8%
- 25th 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: 14 for, 30 against. Expected: 15.9 and 21.0.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 7 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
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 — 65 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 · 41 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 84th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.88 a game
- Distance
- 2.03 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.1 mph
- 64th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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
6
points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 2 assists, 20 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 457 minutes at five-on-five
- Oliver Moore38%
- Ryan Greene28%
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
- CHI took 43.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.1% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 457 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Moore | 45.4% | 41.8% | 48.6% |
| Wyatt Kaiser | 43.5% | 42.8% | 44.0% |
| Alex Vlasic | 37.7% | 45.6% | 41.3% |
45.4% together, 41.8% for him apart and 48.6% for Moore apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Moore and did not follow 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, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.