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Defence · #53 · Rookie

Nicolas Meloche

Age
29
Shoots
Right
Height
191 cm
Weight
92 kg
Born
LaSalle, CAN
Draft
2015, round 2, #40 (COL)

Career · 2020–21 to 2021–22

Games
57
Goals
2
Points
8
TOI per game
15:59
xGF% (5v5)
44.9%
Goals above expected
+0.2

Season by season

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

2020–21SJS7011+19:3560.0%00.153.0%
2021–22SJS50257−1716:53365.6%01.644.0%
Total1 team57268−1615:59424.8%01.844.9%

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)
00.10.20.31020304050
12m14m16m18m20m1020304050Game

Player card

How 2020–21 to 2021–22 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

7th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

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

Scoring

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.1333rd pct
  • Assists /600.4013th pct
  • ixG /600.1211th pct
  • Shots /602.775th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)44.9%13th pct
  • CF% (5v5)42.8%3rd pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.257th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.6534th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game15:5926th pct
  • PP time share2.8%37th pct
  • PK time share18.8%31st pct
  • Quality of competition23.1%12th 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).

Finishing

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.

+0.2 goals above expected

00.511.521020304050Game

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

−10−50+5+10+15

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 speed35.7 km/h74th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1550th pct
  • Hardest shot148.3 km/h48th pct
  • Distance skated187 km48th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.3%5th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

35.7 km/h65th pct

2021–22 only

3434.53535.53636.521–222021–22: 35.7 km/h, 65th percentile (50 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.137th pct

2021–22 only

0.511.522.5321–222021–22: 1.1, 37th percentile (50 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.3 km29th pct

2021–22 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–222021–22: 13.3 km, 29th percentile (50 games)

Hardest shot

148.3 km/h35th pct

2021–22 only

14014515015516021–222021–22: 148.3 km/h, 35th percentile (50 games)

Offensive-zone time

38.3%5th pct

2021–22 only

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–222021–22: 38.3%, 5th percentile (50 games)