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Centre · #10

Nicolas Roy

Carolina Hurricanes Vegas Golden Knights Toronto Maple Leafs Colorado Avalanche(traded during the season)
Age
29
Shoots
Right
Height
193 cm
Weight
91 kg
Born
Amos, CAN
Draft
2015, round 4, #96 (CAR)

Career · 2017–18 to 2026–27

Games
445
Goals
78
Points
194
TOI per game
14:51
xGF% (5v5)
52.4%
Goals above expected
−16.3
ShowAll teamsCarolina HurricanesVegas Golden KnightsToronto Maple LeafsColorado Avalanche

Season by season

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

2017–18CAR1000−110:4610.0%00.041.1%
2018–19CAR600006:5710.0%00.253.5%
2019–20VGK285510+311:264211.9%15.258.3%
2020–21VGK506915+913:015211.5%06.555.9%
2021–22VGK78152439+1216:1514510.3%522.352.9%
2022–23VGK65141630+1016:1810113.9%616.051.2%
2023–24VGK70132841+815:2711211.6%716.752.5%
2024–25VGK71151631−415:1310714.0%415.653.0%
2025–26TOR5951520014:45559.1%17.746.6%
2025–26COL15325013:182114.3%13.350.5%
2025–26All teams7481725014:287610.5%211.047.5%
2026–27COL2213+212:33540.0%00.869.9%
Total4 teams44578116194+3914:5164212.1%2594.352.4%

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)
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Player card

Model-based

How 2017–18 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

60th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

3rd line
  • Goals /600.7155th pct
  • Assists /601.0567th pct
  • ixG /600.8672nd pct
  • Goals above expected−16.37th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)52.4%82nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)51.3%76th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.555th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.1723rd pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game14:5168th pct
  • PP time share27.3%61st pct
  • Offensive zone starts43.6%24th pct
  • Quality of competition23.9%46th 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

  1. Ridly GreigOTT0.89
  2. Phillip DanaultMTL/LAK0.84
  3. Jordan StaalCAR0.84
  4. Yanni GourdeTBL/SEA0.82
  5. Erik HaulaVGK/CAR/BOS/NJD/NSH/LAK0.81
  6. Paul StastnyVGK/WPG0.80

Faceoffs

How often Roy wins the draw over 2017–18 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1749+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

48.4%

2198–2339 · #137 of 204 regulars, 33rd percentile

Against an average centre

48.6%

Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.

Wins above average

−66

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

10.4

4,537 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

50%1038 · +0.648%239 · +2.246%883 · +2.253%115 · +0.244%187 · +1.751%111 · +0.444%166 · −0.253%377 · +1.548%1421 · +2.8Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone46.6% 523–599
  • Neutral zone49.3% 797–820
  • Defensive zone48.8% 878–920

By strength

  • Even strength48.8% 1841–1933
  • Power play49.0% 140–146
  • Shorthanded45.5% 217–260

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +12 after a win, −19 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.7 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2017–181060.0%56.9%
2018–193953.8%53.1%
2019–2019348.2%48.0%
2020–2131744.8%45.1%
2021–2293148.8%49.1%
2022–2376848.0%48.0%
2023–2476746.8%47.3%
2024–2577847.7%47.8%
2025–2672152.3%51.9%
2026–271346.2%46.0%

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.

−16.3 goals above expected

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

−500+50+100

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 speed33.9 km/h42nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph336th pct
  • Hardest shot130.7 km/h71st pct
  • Distance skated7 km14th pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.1%71st 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

33.8 km/h2nd pct

▼ −0.5 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 34.7 km/h, 12th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 34.9 km/h, 16th percentile (65 games)2023–24: 33.9 km/h, 2nd percentile (70 games)2024–25: 34.3 km/h, 6th percentile (71 games)2025–26: 33.8 km/h, 2nd percentile (74 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.77th pct

▲ +0.1 since 2024–25

024681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 2.1, 10th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 1.1, 5th percentile (65 games)2023–24: 1.4, 6th percentile (70 games)2024–25: 1.6, 6th percentile (71 games)2025–26: 1.7, 7th percentile (74 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.8 km68th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.5 km, 43rd percentile (78 games)2022–23: 15.2 km, 39th percentile (65 games)2023–24: 15.5 km, 47th percentile (70 games)2024–25: 15.6 km, 51st percentile (71 games)2025–26: 15.8 km, 68th percentile (74 games)

Hardest shot

131.4 km/h16th pct

▼ −8.3 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 149.1 km/h, 74th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 142.7 km/h, 50th percentile (65 games)2023–24: 136.9 km/h, 26th percentile (70 games)2024–25: 139.7 km/h, 47th percentile (71 games)2025–26: 131.4 km/h, 16th percentile (74 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.7%34th pct

▼ −2.0 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 43.9%, 78th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 43.2%, 64th percentile (65 games)2023–24: 42.4%, 58th percentile (70 games)2024–25: 42.7%, 62nd percentile (71 games)2025–26: 40.7%, 34th percentile (74 games)