Armchair Scout
5

Nolan Allan

San Jose Sharks Defense

Forty-three games, eight points, and no five-on-five record at all.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2024-2543178-1316000175.915:08
Career43178-1316000175.915:08

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

Last Season

One goal and seven assists in 43 games — eight points, minus-13, at 15:08 a night with sixteen penalty minutes. His first NHL season, at 22, and his five-on-five work was done in Chicago.

The Finesse Game

Seventeen shots on goal across 43 games is close to the lowest volume of any defenceman covered here who played forty times. One goal, seven assists.

There is no offensive component and the club that drafted him thirty-second overall did not select him for one. He defends and he makes the first pass.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 195, and a positional, physical defender — he closes gaps early, blocks shots, and is willing in front of his own net. Sixteen penalty minutes.

The skating is good enough to defend the rush, which for a stay-at-home defenceman is the whole requirement.

The Intangibles

A note on what is missing. This page carries no on-ice or shot-location figures because he does not appear in the play-by-play files at all — not a small sample, an absent one.

That happens occasionally with players who split a season between leagues, and it means the honest position here is that there is no underlying evidence to weigh. The minus-13 in fifteen minutes a night on a poor Chicago club is all there is, and plus-minus is the least informative number in the sport.

He is 23, and this report will be worth rather more next year.