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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Nolan Allan

San Jose Sharks Defense

43 games, 8 points, and no 5-on-5 record at all.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2024-25CHI43178-1316000175.915:08
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—43178-1316000175.915:08

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.

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

1 goal and 7 assists in 43 games — 8 points, minus-13, at 15:08 a night with 16 penalty minutes. His first NHL season, at 22, and his 5-on-5 work was done in Chicago.

The Finesse Game

17 shots on goal across 43 games is close to the lowest volume of any defenceman covered here who played 40 times. 1 goal, 7 assists.

There is no offensive component and the club that drafted him 32nd overall did not select him for one. He defends and he makes the first pass.

The Physical Game

6-2, 195, and a positional, physical defender — he closes gaps early, blocks shots, and is willing in front of his own net. 16 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 15 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.