Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Minnesota Wild Right Wing
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.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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 forechecks and finishes checks.”
“He hits hard, he is willing to fight, and he plays a genuinely difficult game below the goal line.”
“he is willing to fight”
“he plays a genuinely difficult game below the goal line”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 206 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.9%
- 34th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.6%
- 48th 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: 4 for, 9 against. Expected: 6.7 and 7.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 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 · 22 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 68th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.05 a game
- Distance
- 1.61 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.0 mph
- 59th 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 with BUF · 179 minutes at five-on-five
- Peyton Krebs36%
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 47.9% — 0.2 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 | 38.3% | 54.0% | 47.7% |
| Owen Power | 43.3% | 50.4% | 47.3% |
| Bowen Byram | 50.7% | 46.7% | 48.7% |
38.3% together, 54.0% for him apart and 47.7% 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.