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Nicolas Roy
Vegas Golden Knights Center
A fifteen-foot median attempt at 6-4, and a career high in points.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 298 | 53 | 82 | 135 | +41 | 128 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 454 | 11.7 | 14:52 |
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
70 games, 13 goals and 28 assists for 41 points, 1 on the power play, 1 shorthanded, 29 penalty minutes, 15:27 a night and plus-8, with 2 game-winners. He took 51.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 869 minutes, the 63rd percentile, and his ice went 34-31 against an expectation of 31.87-30.10.
Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and level at the other end. Forty-one points is a career high by two and it came in fifteen and a half minutes a night.
The Finesse Game
155 attempts at a median of 15 feet with 59 per cent of them from inside twenty and 14 per cent from beyond forty, 110 of those on goal, converted at 11.6 per cent against a career 11.67 across 454 shots.
Fifty-three career goals and 82 assists in 298 games. A fifteen-foot median attempt is the closest chart on this club; at 6-4 he takes the puck into the paint and shoots from there, and 12 career game-winners in 298 games is a third-line centre who scores when it matters.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 200 and took 29 penalty minutes.
128 career penalty minutes in 298 games. He is tall and long and wins pucks below the goal line with reach rather than weight; there is more forechecking in this game than the penalty totals suggest.
The Intangibles
Ninety-sixth overall in 2015 by Carolina, seven seasons, and Vegas is his second organisation.
A career plus-41 in 298 games. He was a fourth-round pick who played 7 games for the club that drafted him, and he has been a third-line centre here for five seasons.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 869 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.4%
- 63rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.5%
- 68th 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: 34 for, 31 against. Expected: 31.9 and 30.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 30 points above where the numbers do. 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. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 80 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
2023-24 · 869 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
- VGK took 51.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.4% — 0.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 869 minutes at five-on-five — 46th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keegan Kolesar | 52.6% | 50.4% | 42.1% |
| Nicolas Hague | 50.4% | 51.9% | 50.1% |
| Ivan Barbashev | 46.6% | 54.1% | 50.8% |
52.6% together, 50.4% for him apart and 42.1% for Kolesar apart. Kolesar was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Kolesar 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
155 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 59% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.