Nicolas Aube-Kubel

2 points in 22 games and 19 penalty minutes, and a depth winger on his fifth organisation.

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

2018-19	PHI	9	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	5:35
2019-20	PHI	36	7	8	15	+1	19	2	0	1	48	14.6	11:17
2020-21	PHI	50	3	9	12	-3	44	0	0	0	53	5.7	11:10
2021-22	PHI/COL	74	11	12	23	+11	47	0	0	2	87	12.6	9:49
2022-23	TOR/WSH	53	4	8	12	+1	50	0	0	0	67	6.0	11:22
2023-24	WSH	60	6	10	16	+4	23	0	0	0	58	10.3	12:12
2024-25	BUF/NYR	22	1	1	2	-5	19	0	0	0	18	5.6	9:25
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	304	32	48	80	+10	202	2	0	3	333	9.6	10:48

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

1 goal and 1 assist in 22 games for 2 points, minus-5, on 9:25 a night with Washington.

18 shots in 22 games. The smallest role available and a set of numbers that says nothing beyond that.

The Finesse Game

Very little. 2 points in 22 games is close to his rate over four seasons and his career high is 16 points.

He forechecks and finishes checks. There is no offensive projection.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 213, and this is the job. He hits hard, he is willing to fight, and he plays a genuinely difficult game below the goal line.

19 penalty minutes in 22 games is a very high rate.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick, five organisations, and a Cup in Colorado from a fourth-line role.

The projection is a thirteenth forward. On a minimum contract that is a reasonable use of a roster spot and not much more.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 206 minutes

Expected goals: 48.9%; 40th pct
Shot attempts: 50.1%; 54th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 9 for, 10 against. Expected: 7.0 and 7.3.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

25th

Numbers

40th

The two rank him within 15 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 with BUF · 179 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: NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.9% — 1.2 above the club he did it on.
The role: 206 minutes at five-on-five — 0th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Peyton Krebs	37.2%	55.6%	47.3%
Owen Power	38.5%	54.0%	48.6%
Bowen Byram	57.9%	45.4%	48.2%

37.2% together, 55.6% for him apart and 47.3% for Krebs apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

32 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 28% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.