Defence · #89

Nikita Nesterov

Tampa Bay Lightning

Montréal Canadiens

Calgary Flames(traded during the season)

Age: 33
Shoots: Left
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 87 kg
Born: Chelyabinsk, RUS
Draft: 2011, round 5, #148 (TBL)

Career · 4 seasons

Games: 170
Goals: 9
Points: 37
TOI per game: 15:41
xGF% (5v5): 50.7%
Goals above expected: −1.6

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Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.


2014–15	TBL	27	2	5	7	+6	16:03	44	4.5%	2	2.7	53.3%
2015–16	TBL	57	3	6	9	−6	14:53	57	5.3%	4	3.4	49.1%
2016–17	TBL	35	3	9	12	−3	16:35	46	6.5%	2	2.1	49.6%
2016–17	MTL	13	1	4	5	+3	15:29	17	5.9%	0	0.9	47.3%
2016–17	All teams	48	4	13	17	0	16:17	63	6.3%	2	3.0	49.0%
After a break: 2020–21	CGY	38	0	4	4	−10	15:52	33	0.0%	0	1.4	52.6%
Total	3 teams	170	9	28	37	−10	15:41	197	4.6%	8	10.6	50.7%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)

Player card

Model-based

How 4 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd pair

59th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

1st pair
2nd pair
3rd pair
Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd pair

Goals /600.2063rd pct
Assists /600.6354th pct
ixG /600.2471st pct
Shots /604.4359th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair

xGF% (5v5)50.7%64th pct
CF% (5v5)52.6%85th pct
Relative xGF%−2.724th pct
xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2162nd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL

TOI per game15:4122nd pct
PP time share15.7%57th pct
PK time share6.7%14th pct
Quality of competition23.6%21st pct

Percentiles among defencemen with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−1.6 goals above expected

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games