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Defence · #64 · Rookie

Joel Nystrom

Age
24
Shoots
Right
Height
180 cm
Weight
81 kg
Born
Karlstad, SWE
Draft
2021, round 7, #219 (CAR)

2025–26

Games
38
Goals
1
Points
10
TOI per game
15:11
xGF% (5v5)
58.3%
Goals above expected
−0.4

Season

The regular-season line, by team for traded players.

2025–26CAR381910+615:11432.3%01.458.3%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.5101520253035
13m14m15m16m17m18m101520253035Game

Player card

How this season compares with everyone else at the position, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

75th 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 /600.1027th pct
  • Assists /600.9474th pct
  • ixG /600.1532nd pct
  • Shots /604.4775th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)58.3%96th pct
  • CF% (5v5)59.5%98th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.770th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2683rd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game15:1117th pct
  • PP time share1.3%31st pct
  • PK time share24.8%37th pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%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.

−0.4 goals above expected

00.511.55101520253035Game

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

−8−6−4−20+2+4+6+8+10

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 speed34.3 km/h37th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1440th pct
  • Hardest shot143.9 km/h44th pct
  • Distance skated135 km37th pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.7%89th 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

34.3 km/h21st pct

2025–26 only

3434.53535.53636.525–262025–26: 34.3 km/h, 21st percentile (38 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.543rd pct

2025–26 only

0.511.522.5325–262025–26: 1.5, 43rd percentile (38 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.0 km72nd pct

2025–26 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.225–262025–26: 14.0 km, 72nd percentile (38 games)

Hardest shot

143.9 km/h29th pct

2025–26 only

14014515015525–262025–26: 143.9 km/h, 29th percentile (38 games)

Offensive-zone time

44.7%89th pct

2025–26 only

38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 44.7%, 89th percentile (38 games)