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Nicolas Deslauriers
Philadelphia Flyers Left Wing
Seven hundred and forty-six career penalty minutes and 101 career points, on eight minutes a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | BUF | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -10 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 3.3 | 13:09 |
| 2014-15 | BUF | 82 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -24 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 76 | 6.6 | 11:52 |
| 2015-16 | BUF | 70 | 6 | 6 | 12 | -14 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 8.3 | 10:20 |
| 2016-17 | BUF | 42 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -6 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0.0 | 7:25 |
| 2017-18 | MTL | 58 | 10 | 4 | 14 | +7 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 77 | 13.0 | 11:36 |
| 2018-19 | MTL | 48 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -12 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 4.2 | 10:02 |
| 2019-20 | ANA | 59 | 7 | 6 | 13 | -1 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 10.9 | 9:47 |
| 2020-21 | ANA | 49 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -7 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 65 | 7.7 | 11:19 |
| 2021-22 | ANA/MIN | 81 | 8 | 5 | 13 | -11 | 113 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 90 | 8.9 | 11:22 |
| 2022-23 | PHI | 80 | 6 | 6 | 12 | -11 | 136 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 70 | 8.6 | 10:06 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 60 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -7 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 2.0 | 8:09 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 646 | 51 | 50 | 101 | -96 | 746 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 667 | 7.6 | 10:26 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
60 games, 1 goal and 3 assists for 4 points, 89 penalty minutes, 8:09 a night and minus-7. He took 44.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 491 minutes, the 17th percentile and the worst share of any forward on the club, and his ice went 9-17 against an expectation of 14.42-18.03.
Five goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and one fewer conceded than they called for. Four points in 60 games at eight minutes a night is the role stated plainly.
The Finesse Game
76 attempts at a median of 30 feet, 49 of those on goal, converted at 2.0 per cent against a career 7.65 across 667 shots.
50 career assists in 646 games. There is no offensive game and there never has been one; 51 goals in eleven seasons is what eight and a half minutes a night on a fourth line produces, and one goal last season is the low end of it.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 218 and took 89 penalty minutes in 60 games.
746 career penalty minutes in 646 games — more than a minute a game across eleven seasons. He fights, he finishes every check available and he answers for teammates, and 136 penalty minutes in a season two years ago is what the role looks like at full usage.
The Intangibles
Eighty-fourth overall in 2009 by Los Angeles, eleven seasons, five organisations, 101 points in 646 games and a career minus-96.
Three career shorthanded goals and 746 penalty minutes. He is 33 and has made eleven NHL seasons out of being the man nobody wants to play against, which is a smaller job than it was when he started.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- 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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
30.3% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He fights, he finishes every check available and he answers for teammates, and 136 penalty minutes in a season two years ago is what the role looks like at full usage.”
“746 career penalty minutes in 646 games — more than a minute a game across eleven seasons.”
“He is 6-1 and 218 and took 89 penalty minutes in 60 games.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 491 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.4%
- 18th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.8%
- 16th 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: 9 for, 17 against. Expected: 14.4 and 18.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 10 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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, 2023-24 · 60 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 40th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.22 a game
- Distance
- 1.37 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.5 mph
- 79th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 491 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, 2023-24
- The club
- PHI took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.4% — 8.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 491 minutes at five-on-five — 17th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garnet Hathaway | 48.3% | 37.6% | 59.4% |
| Scott Laughton | 35.3% | 51.5% | 47.1% |
| Ryan Poehling | 53.9% | 39.7% | 54.9% |
48.3% together, 37.6% for him apart and 59.4% for Hathaway apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Hathaway 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
76 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 4 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.