- Age
- 30
- Shoots
- Left
- Height
- 193 cm
- Weight
- 93 kg
- Born
- Riga, LVA
- Draft
- 2016, round 7, #184 (VAN)
Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26
- Games
- 64
- Goals
- 5
- Points
- 15
- TOI per game
- 10:03
- xGF% (5v5)
- 43.8%
- Goals above expected
- −2.6
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.
Player card
How 2024–25 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.
Overall rating
Extra / AHL
9th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
4th line- Goals /600.4721st pct
- Assists /600.9350th pct
- ixG /600.7038th pct
- Goals above expected−2.633rd pct
Play-driving
Extra / AHL- xGF% (5v5)43.8%14th pct
- CF% (5v5)45.2%14th pct
- Relative xGF%−8.26th pct
- Penalty diff /60-0.0928th pct
Usage
Extra / AHL- TOI per game10:0310th pct
- PP time share0.9%12th pct
- Offensive zone starts46.6%32nd pct
- Quality of competition22.4%1st 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
Faceoffs
How often Abols wins the draw over 2024–25 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 410+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
53.8%
224–192 · #40 of 183 regulars, 78th percentile
Against an average centre
53.9%
Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.
Wins above average
+16
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
6.8
416 draws in all.
By dot, attacking to the right
Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.
By zone
- Offensive zone61.3% 68–43
- Neutral zone48.3% 85–91
- Defensive zone55.0% 71–58
By strength
- Even strength53.7% 216–186
- Power play57.1% 4–3
- Shorthanded57.1% 4–3
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +11 after a win, −19 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.5 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Mark Jankowski37.5% 6–10
- Luke Glendening30.8% 4–9
- Nico Hischier36.4% 4–7
- Luke Kunin66.7% 6–3
- Kyle MacLean87.5% 7–1
- Michael McCarron62.5% 5–3
- Jack Finley37.5% 3–5
- John Beecher62.5% 5–3
Season by season
| Season | Draws | Win rate | Against average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024–25 | 113 | 58.4% | 58.6% |
| 2025–26 | 303 | 52.1% | 52.1% |
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.
−2.6 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.
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 speed35.4 km/h39th pct
- Speed bursts over 20 mph3436th pct
- Hardest shot136.5 km/h50th pct
- Distance skated120 km33rd pct
- Offensive-zone time39.4%16th pct
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.
Top skating speed
35.4 km/h28th pct
▼ −0.3 km/h since 2024–25
Bursts over 20 mph per 60
4.643rd pct
▼ −0.4 since 2024–25
Distance skated per 60
16.3 km88th pct
▲ +0.3 km since 2024–25
Hardest shot
136.5 km/h40th pct
▲ +2.1 km/h since 2024–25
Offensive-zone time
39.4%17th pct
▼ −3.0 points since 2024–25