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Nils Aman

Vancouver Canucks Center

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

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2022-23VAN6841216-1218001508.012:42
2023-24VAN43347-380002810.710:20
2024-25 so far
Career11171623-1526001789.011:47

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.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 387 minutes

Expected goals
51%
61st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
46.7%
26th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

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.

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

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Sam Lafferty45.7%55.8%45.7%
Nils Hoglander54.9%47.6%54.3%
Filip Hronek59.4%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.