Nino Niederreiter

1,000 games of heavy, honest wing play, with the goals now drying up.

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

2010-11	NYI	9	1	1	2	-1	8	0	0	0	12	8.3	13:36
2011-12	NYI	55	1	0	1	-29	12	0	0	0	74	1.4	10:07
2013-14	MIN	81	14	22	36	+12	44	2	0	1	143	9.8	14:06
2014-15	MIN	80	24	13	37	+2	28	6	1	5	149	16.1	14:33
2015-16	MIN	82	20	23	43	+9	36	2	0	1	159	12.6	15:33
2016-17	MIN	82	25	32	57	+17	53	8	0	3	186	13.4	15:04
2017-18	MIN	63	18	14	32	+14	36	7	0	4	133	13.5	15:00
2018-19	MIN/CAR	82	23	30	53	-4	30	6	0	3	184	12.5	16:14
2019-20	CAR	67	11	18	29	-3	42	4	0	2	115	9.6	14:49
2020-21	CAR	56	20	14	34	+20	29	4	0	4	126	15.9	15:43
2021-22	CAR	75	24	20	44	+29	34	4	0	5	144	16.7	14:50
2022-23	NSH/WPG	78	24	17	41	-13	22	4	0	2	181	13.3	16:17
2023-24	WPG	77	18	16	34	+12	34	3	0	3	170	10.6	14:58
2024-25	WPG	82	17	20	37	+16	24	4	0	3	150	11.3	14:51
2025-26	WPG	61	8	11	19	-7	18	1	0	2	84	9.5	13:46
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1030	248	251	499	+74	450	55	1	38	2010	12.3	14:48

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 19 points in 61 games, minus-7, on under 14 minutes a night. He has scored 24 in a season; this was not close, and the decline has been steady for 3 years.

The Finesse Game

Modest and always was, though he scored more than the reputation suggests — 248 goals in 1,030 games, nearly all of them from within 15 feet. He tips pucks, finishes rebounds, and shoots quickly from the slot when the chance arrives.

He does not create for others and never has. 84 shots in 61 games is a low rate for a player whose whole offensive game is volume around the net.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 218, and this is what has lasted. He forechecks heavily, is genuinely hard to move off a puck along the wall, and plays a physical game without taking many penalties.

The skating has slowed noticeably, which is why the ice time has come down.

The Intangibles

A 5th overall pick who did not become a star and turned into something durable instead — 15 years, 5 organisations, and a reputation as a good teammate in each.

He is 34. The body still works; the finishing has gone, and a bottom-6 winger who cannot score is replaceable by anyone with legs.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 748 minutes

Expected goals: 48.8%; 45th pct
Shot attempts: 50.5%; 64th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 20 for, 28 against. Expected: 25.7 and 27.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

67th

Numbers

45th

The report ranks him 22 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 — 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 61 games

Top speed: 21.7 mph; 27th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.48 a game
Distance: 2.20 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.3 mph; 65th 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, 0 assists, 20 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 748 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: WPG took 47.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.8% — 1.5 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 748 minutes at five-on-five — 34th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Vladislav Namestnikov	50.8%	47.3%	43.5%
Adam Lowry	46.7%	50.4%	49.3%
Dylan DeMelo	58.3%	43.9%	49.3%

50.8% together, 47.3% for him apart and 43.5% for Namestnikov apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

112 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.