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Nick Robertson
Toronto Maple Leafs Left Wing
Fifteen goals in 69 games at 12 minutes a night, and seven assists.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | TOR | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 9:26 |
| 2021-22 | TOR | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7.1 | 10:16 |
| 2022-23 | TOR | 15 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 7.4 | 10:53 |
| 2023-24 | TOR | 56 | 14 | 13 | 27 | +4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 96 | 14.6 | 11:23 |
| 2024-25 | TOR | 69 | 15 | 7 | 22 | -1 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 112 | 13.4 | 12:00 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 156 | 32 | 24 | 56 | +2 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 258 | 12.4 | 11:28 |
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 7 assists in 69 games — 22 points at 12:00 a night, minus-1, with 3 game-winners and 16 penalty minutes on 112 shots.
48.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 47th percentile, across 718 minutes. His ice went 27-27 against an expectation of 24.85-26.63 — ten goals better than expected for and four worse against, on a third line.
The Finesse Game
112 attempts at a median of 29 feet with 28 per cent from inside 20, converting at 13.4 per cent. Fifteen goals in twelve minutes a night is a genuinely good rate and the shot is the reason he is in the league.
7 assists in 69 games is close to the lowest rate of any regular forward in this edition. He shoots, and when the shot is not there the play tends to stop.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 180 and among the smallest forwards on the roster. He does not forecheck with force and he will not win a puck against a defenceman.
16 penalty minutes in 69 games. He competes hard and he is out-muscled routinely, and the club has never been able to give him more than fourth-line minutes because of it.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2019 who scored 55 goals in a junior season, and then lost most of three years to knee and shoulder injuries.
156 games and 56 points. He is 24, he has asked to be traded once, and he has scored 14 and 15 goals in his two healthy seasons on the fourth line of a club that has no room for him.
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.
- 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.
“He does not forecheck with force and he will not win a puck against a defenceman.”
“He does not forecheck with force and he will not win a puck against a defenceman.”
“He competes hard and he is out-muscled routinely, and the club has never been able to give him more than fourth-line minutes because of it.”
“**7 assists in 69 games** is close to the lowest rate of any regular forward in this edition.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 718 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.3%
- 37th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49%
- 43rd 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: 27 for, 27 against. Expected: 24.9 and 26.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 12 points of one another. 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.
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 — 68 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 · 69 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 89th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.59 a game
- Distance
- 1.98 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 95.6 mph
- 97th 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 83.9
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 · 718 minutes at five-on-five
- Max Domi47%
- Bobby McMann43%
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
- TOR took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.3% — 1.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 718 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max Domi | 49.1% | 47.5% | 47.8% |
| Bobby McMann | 51.4% | 46.1% | 50.9% |
| Morgan Rielly | 47.8% | 48.6% | 50.3% |
49.1% together, 47.5% for him apart and 47.8% for Domi apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
163 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 28% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.