Nils Aman

A sixth-round pick with 111 games and 23 points.

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

2022-23	VAN	68	4	12	16	-12	18	0	0	1	50	8.0	12:42
2023-24	VAN	43	3	4	7	-3	8	0	0	0	28	10.7	10:20
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	111	7	16	23	-15	26	0	0	1	78	9.0	11:47

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

43 games, 3 goals and 4 assists for 7 points, 8 penalty minutes, 10:20 a night and minus-3. He took 51.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 387 minutes, the 61st percentile, and his ice went 10-13 against an expectation of 12.28-11.78.

Two goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and a goal more conceded than they called for. Ten goals for in 387 minutes is the lowest rate of anybody on this club.

The Finesse Game

39 attempts at a median of 18 feet with 54 per cent of them from inside twenty and 18 per cent from beyond forty, 28 of those on goal, converted at 10.7 per cent against a career 8.97 across 78 shots.

Seven career goals and 16 assists in 111 games. He gets to the inside — more than half his attempts came from within twenty feet — and 39 attempts in 43 games is a fourth-line centre who is not being asked to shoot.

The Physical Game

He is 6-2 and 179 and took 8 penalty minutes.

Twenty-six career penalty minutes in 111 games. He is tall and very light and plays a positional game rather than a physical one; there is not enough weight here to win a wall and he does not try.

The Intangibles

One hundred and sixty-seventh overall in 2020 by Colorado, two seasons, and Vancouver is his second organisation.

A career minus-15 in 111 games. He was a sixth-round pick by a club he never played a game for, reached the league at 22, and has been a ten-minute fourth-line centre for two seasons.

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
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

wins-the-wallhe lacks it· the corners and below the goal line
“He is tall and very light and plays a positional game rather than a physical one; there is not enough weight here to win a wall and he does not try.”
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He gets to the inside — more than half his attempts came from within twenty feet — and 39 attempts in 43 games is a fourth-line centre who is not being asked to shoot.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 387 minutes

Expected goals: 51%; 61st pct
Shot attempts: 46.7%; 26th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 10 for, 13 against. Expected: 12.3 and 11.8.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

57th

Numbers

61st

The two rank him within 4 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 — 71 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 · 43 games

Top speed: 21.3 mph; 17th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.84 a game
Distance: 1.71 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.4 mph; 40th 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.

Usual linemates

2023-24 · 387 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: VAN took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.0% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 387 minutes at five-on-five — 12th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Sam Lafferty	45.7%	55.8%	45.7%
Nils Hoglander	54.9%	47.6%	54.3%
Filip Hronek	59.4%	46.1%	50.8%

45.7% together, 55.8% for him apart and 45.7% for Lafferty apart. He was better away from Lafferty, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Lafferty.

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

39 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.