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Centre · #88

Nils Aman

Vancouver Canucks
Age
26
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
81 kg
Born
Avesta, SWE
Draft
2020, round 6, #167 (COL)

Career · 2022–23 to 2025–26

Games
132
Goals
8
Points
29
TOI per game
11:33
xGF% (5v5)
45.8%
Goals above expected
−3.2

Season by season

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

2022–23VAN6841216−1212:42508.0%06.443.2%
2023–24VAN43347−310:202810.7%03.651.8%
2024–25VAN19156−210:29812.5%01.143.4%
2025–26VAN200008:4010.0%00.168.8%
Total1 team13282129−1711:33879.2%011.245.8%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.620406080100120
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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

Extra / AHL

6th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.318th pct
  • Assists /600.8342nd pct
  • ixG /600.443rd pct
  • Goals above expected−3.234th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)45.8%25th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.7%9th pct
  • Relative xGF%−5.017th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.0831st pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game11:3326th pct
  • PP time share1.1%12th pct
  • Offensive zone starts42.0%23rd pct
  • Quality of competition23.2%11th 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. Marat Khusnutdinov0.93
  2. Chris TierneyNJD0.92
  3. Jayson MegnaCOL0.90
  4. Tanner LaczynskiPHI0.90
  5. Mattias JanmarkEDM0.90
  6. Dylan GambrellOTT0.89

Faceoffs

How often Aman wins the draw over 2022–23 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 820+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

39.8%

282–426 · below the 820 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

39.9%

Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.

Wins above average

−72

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

Draws per game

5.7

708 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

36%198 · +1.343%127 · +1.526%35 · +13.045%33 · +2.736%22 · +2.048%40 · +1.536%14 · −2.446%126 · +1.437%113 · +1.6Attacking 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 zone39.5% 64–98
  • Neutral zone38.4% 118–189
  • Defensive zone41.8% 100–139

By strength

  • Even strength40.2% 267–397
  • Power play33.3% 3–6
  • Shorthanded34.3% 12–23

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +10 after a win, −21 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
2022–2347438.2%38.2%
2023–2415845.6%45.6%
2024–257437.8%38.2%
2025–26250.0%55.0%

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.

−3.2 goals above expected

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

−40−200+20+40+60

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/h7th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph24th pct
  • Hardest shot97.1 km/h2nd pct
  • Distance skated5 km4th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.7%17th 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/h1st pct

▼ −0.4 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373822–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 35.5 km/h, 34th percentile (68 games)2023–24: 34.3 km/h, 7th percentile (43 games)2024–25: 34.0 km/h, 3rd percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 33.6 km/h, 1st percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.966th pct

▲ +0.9 since 2024–25

2468101222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 10.4, 89th percentile (68 games)2023–24: 4.9, 47th percentile (43 games)2024–25: 6.0, 57th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 6.9, 66th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.3 km90th pct

▲ +0.1 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.522–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 16.2 km, 90th percentile (68 games)2023–24: 16.0 km, 76th percentile (43 games)2024–25: 16.2 km, 85th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 16.3 km, 90th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

97.1 km/h0th pct

▼ −9.7 km/h since 2024–25

8010012014016022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 123.9 km/h, 1st percentile (68 games)2023–24: 137.5 km/h, 28th percentile (43 games)2024–25: 106.8 km/h, 0th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 97.1 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

39.7%19th pct

▼ −3.1 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 39.1%, 16th percentile (68 games)2023–24: 40.9%, 38th percentile (43 games)2024–25: 42.8%, 63rd percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 39.7%, 19th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)