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Defence · #57

Nick DeSimone

Calgary Flames New Jersey Devils Utah Mammoth(traded during the season)
Age
31
Shoots
Right
Height
188 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
East Amherst, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2022–23 to 2025–26

Games
98
Goals
5
Points
21
TOI per game
14:07
xGF% (5v5)
52.4%
Goals above expected
+0.6
ShowAll teamsCalgary FlamesNew Jersey DevilsUtah Mammoth

Season by season

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

2022–23CGY4000−411:1540.0%00.250.4%
2023–24CGY23145−412:03195.3%00.746.6%
2023–24NJD11112+716:29911.1%00.352.4%
2023–24All teams34257+313:29287.1%01.048.9%
2024–25UTA20156+415:35244.2%01.152.2%
2025–26UTA40268+414:13355.7%02.255.7%
Total3 teams9851621+714:07915.5%04.452.4%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.520406080
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Player card

Model-based

How 2022–23 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd pair

64th 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.2265th pct
  • Assists /600.6958th pct
  • ixG /600.1957th pct
  • Shots /603.9560th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)52.4%80th pct
  • CF% (5v5)51.5%76th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.750th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3084th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game14:0712th pct
  • PP time share0.5%8th pct
  • PK time share5.9%12th pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%17th 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

  1. Matt Kiersted0.80
  2. Josh MahuraSEA0.77
  3. Declan ChisholmMIN0.77
  4. Vladislav Kolyachonok0.76
  5. Nils LundkvistDAL0.75
  6. Kyle CapobiancoDAL0.74

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.

+0.6 goals above expected

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

−15−10−50+5+10+15+20

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 speed34.8 km/h47th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1237th pct
  • Hardest shot142.3 km/h39th pct
  • Distance skated135 km37th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.8%82nd 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

34.8 km/h32nd pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2024–25

303234363822–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 31.0 km/h, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 32.3 km/h, 0th percentile (34 games)2024–25: 34.1 km/h, 12th percentile (20 games)2025–26: 34.8 km/h, 32nd percentile (40 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.336th pct

▲ +0.9 since 2024–25

012322–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 0.0, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 0.1, 1st percentile (34 games)2024–25: 0.4, 8th percentile (20 games)2025–26: 1.3, 36th percentile (40 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.2 km87th pct

▼ −0.4 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.51522–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 14.2 km, 89th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 14.4 km, 90th percentile (34 games)2024–25: 14.6 km, 96th percentile (20 games)2025–26: 14.2 km, 87th percentile (40 games)

Hardest shot

142.3 km/h23rd pct

▼ −3.6 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 124.5 km/h, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 139.9 km/h, 14th percentile (34 games)2024–25: 146.0 km/h, 38th percentile (20 games)2025–26: 142.3 km/h, 23rd percentile (40 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.8%83rd pct

▲ +1.3 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 40.1%, 28th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 41.7%, 50th percentile (34 games)2024–25: 42.5%, 61st percentile (20 games)2025–26: 43.8%, 83rd percentile (40 games)