Nicolas Roy

A 6-4 centre who wins faceoffs, kills penalties and has been on a Cup team doing it.

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

2017-18	CAR	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	10:46
2018-19	CAR	6	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0.0	6:57
2019-20	VGK	28	5	5	10	+3	8	1	0	1	42	11.9	11:26
2020-21	VGK	50	6	9	15	+9	14	0	0	1	52	11.5	13:01
2021-22	VGK	78	15	24	39	+12	51	2	0	3	145	10.3	16:15
2022-23	VGK	65	14	16	30	+10	24	3	0	5	101	13.9	16:18
2023-24	VGK	70	13	28	41	+8	29	1	1	2	112	11.6	15:27
2024-25	VGK	71	15	16	31	-4	43	2	0	3	107	14.0	15:13
2025-26	TOR/COL	74	8	17	25	0	23	2	0	0	76	10.5	14:27
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	443	76	115	191	+37	194	11	1	15	637	11.9	14:51

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

8 goals and 25 points in 74 games, even on the plus-minus, on 14 and a half minutes a night. That is roughly his established rate across 5 seasons.

The Finesse Game

Modest but not absent. He has scored 15 in a season, he finishes around the net, and he can make a play from below the goal line with his reach. 76 shots in 74 games is a low volume that fits the role.

He is a genuinely good faceoff centre, which is the specific skill that keeps him on a roster.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 200, and he uses the length more than the weight. He protects pucks well, is hard to check off the cycle, and does the defensive work without being a punishing hitter.

The Intangibles

A fourth-round pick who became a useful third-line centre on a championship team, which is exactly the kind of player who gets traded to a contender and quietly matters in April.

At 29 this is settled. He is a good third-line centre and will be for several more seasons.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 892 minutes

Expected goals: 48.2%; 39th pct
Shot attempts: 46.9%; 26th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 35 for, 34 against. Expected: 34.2 and 36.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

39th

The report ranks him 34 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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, 2025-26 · 74 games

Top speed: 21.0 mph; 8th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.41 a game
Distance: 2.36 miles a game
Hardest shot: 81.7 mph; 29th pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 2 assists, 14 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with TOR · 719 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, 2025-26

The club: COL took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.2% — 8.7 below the club he did it on.
The role: 892 minutes at five-on-five — 47th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Dakota Joshua	49.2%	47.7%	45.6%
Nicholas Robertson	53.2%	45.8%	44.2%
Jake McCabe	50.7%	47.2%	45.9%

49.2% together, 47.7% for him apart and 45.6% for Joshua apart. Joshua was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Joshua than for 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

118 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 55% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.