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Nicolas Roy
Toronto Maple Leafs Center
Six-foot-four, a Stanley Cup ring, and the man Vegas sent back for Mitch Marner.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 369 | 68 | 98 | 166 | +37 | 171 | 9 | 1 | 15 | 561 | 12.1 | 14:56 |
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
15 goals and 16 assists in 71 games for Vegas — 31 points at 15:13 a night, minus-4, with 2 power-play goals, 3 game-winners and 43 penalty minutes on 107 shots.
A 14.0 per cent conversion at fifteen minutes a night from a third-line centre on a club that finished with 110 points. He has scored 15 goals three times in four seasons.
The Finesse Game
107 attempts and 15 goals. The shot is functional and he gets to the net to use it.
16 assists in 71 games. There is not much creation; the value is that he wins the draw that begins the shift, makes the correct first pass, and does not turn the puck over in his own end.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 200 and he plays a heavy, honest game. He forechecks with force, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he is difficult to move off possession.
43 penalty minutes in 71 games is a moderate rate. He plays with an edge and he does not back out of anything, and he is not an agitator by trade.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick of Carolina in 2015 and 369 games and 166 points, with a Stanley Cup in Vegas in 2023.
He is 28 and Toronto acquired him in the summer as the return in the trade that sent Mitch Marner to Vegas, which is not a comparison anybody wants to make and is the one that will be made.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 884 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.4%
- 75th 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: 54 for, 33 against. Expected: 37.3 and 33.9.
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 — 75 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
2024-25 with VGK · 884 minutes at five-on-five
- Tomas Hertl15%
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
- VGK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.4% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 884 minutes at five-on-five — 43rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keegan Kolesar | 52.3% | 52.5% | 51.3% |
| Noah Hanifin | 55.1% | 50.7% | 55.9% |
| Alex Pietrangelo | 52.2% | 52.5% | 54.1% |
52.3% together, 52.5% for him apart and 51.3% for Kolesar apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
150 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.