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Nicolas Deslauriers
Philadelphia Flyers Left Wing
761 penalty minutes in 677 games, and 31 games at 7:38 a night in the twelfth season of it.
| 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 | PHI | 31 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -9 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 8.0 | 7:38 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 677 | 53 | 51 | 104 | -105 | 761 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 692 | 7.7 | 10:18 |
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
2 goals and 1 assist in 31 games — 3 points at 7:38 a night, minus-9, with 15 penalty minutes.
43.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 9th percentile — the worst mark in this chapter. His ice went 6-15 across 207 minutes against an expectation of 6.22-8.24, which on a sample that size is mostly noise and is not a good number in any reading.
The Finesse Game
25 attempts in 31 games and 2 goals. There is no offensive component and there has not been one for a decade; his career high is 10 goals, set in 2017-18.
The puck skills are below the standard of the league and the deployment says the club knows it. He is not on the ice when the puck is expected to arrive.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 218 and among the most feared fighters in the league for most of ten years. He hits extremely hard and he answers everything.
761 penalty minutes in 677 games. He crosses the line as a matter of employment, and the reason a club dresses him is that the other bench adjusts.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2009 who converted from defence to wing, and twelve NHL seasons on from that with six organisations behind him.
He is 34 and played 31 games. The role is disappearing from the league faster than he is, and a club that finished 32nd on the power play cannot easily give up a lineup spot for it.
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 hits extremely hard and he answers everything.”
“He hits extremely hard and he answers everything.”
“He crosses the line as a matter of employment, and the reason a club dresses him is that the other bench adjusts.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 207 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43%
- 9th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.1%
- 65th 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: 6 for, 15 against. Expected: 6.2 and 8.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 2 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 — 62 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 · 31 games
- Top speed
- 21.1 mph
- 10th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.13 a game
- Distance
- 1.26 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.2 mph
- 61st 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 · 207 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
- PHI took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.0% — 9.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 207 minutes at five-on-five — 1st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rodrigo Abols | 39.8% | 46.0% | 55.2% |
| Jamie Drysdale | 33.1% | 50.4% | 51.6% |
| Travis Sanheim | 45.2% | 41.6% | 53.8% |
39.8% together, 46.0% for him apart and 55.2% for Abols 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
43 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 28% from beyond forty.