Right wing · #10

Nick Merkley

Arizona Coyotes

New Jersey Devils

San Jose Sharks(traded during the season)

Age: 29
Shoots: Right
Height: 178 cm
Weight: 88 kg
Born: Calgary, CAN
Draft: 2015, round 1, #30 (ARI)

Career · 4 seasons

Games: 41
Goals: 4
Points: 15
TOI per game: 11:44
xGF% (5v5): 45.8%
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.


2017–18	ARI	1	0	0	0	0	13:30	0	–	0	0.1	19.3%
After a break: 2019–20	NJD	4	1	1	2	0	11:22	8	12.5%	0	0.9	51.3%
2020–21	NJD	27	2	8	10	−5	11:30	38	5.3%	1	3.6	44.0%
2021–22	SJS	9	1	2	3	−2	12:25	7	14.3%	1	1.0	50.1%
Total	3 teams	41	4	11	15	−7	11:44	53	7.5%	2	5.6	45.8%

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

3rd line

41st percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

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Extra / AHL

Scoring

3rd line

Goals /600.5027th pct
Assists /601.3783rd pct
ixG /600.7046th pct
Goals above expected−1.643rd pct

Play-driving

3rd line

xGF% (5v5)45.8%22nd pct
CF% (5v5)47.7%34th pct
Relative xGF%−3.820th pct
Penalty diff /600.7597th pct

Usage

3rd line

TOI per game11:4425th pct
PP time share17.1%45th pct
Offensive zone starts53.2%45th pct
Quality of competition23.7%42nd pct

Percentiles among forwards 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

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

Top skating speed33.6 km/h11th pct
Speed bursts over 20 mph1020th pct
Hardest shot115.4 km/h8th pct
Distance skated31 km21st pct
Offensive-zone time39.0%14th pct

Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

33.6 km/h2nd pct

2021–22 only

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.453rd pct

2021–22 only

Distance skated per 60

16.6 km95th pct

2021–22 only

Hardest shot

115.4 km/h0th pct

2021–22 only

Offensive-zone time

39.0%16th pct

2021–22 only