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Right wing · #28 · Rookie

Michael Brandsegg-Nygård

Age
21
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Oslo, NOR
Draft
2024, round 1, #15 (DET)

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
18
Goals
1
Points
4
TOI per game
12:51
xGF% (5v5)
58.2%
Goals above expected
−2.9

Season by season

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

2025–26DET14011−512:31200.0%02.054.7%
2026–27DET4123+214:02147.1%01.966.6%
Total1 team18134−312:51342.9%03.958.2%

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)
0.10.150.20.250.3101112131415161718
12m12m12m12m12m13m101112131415161718Game

Player card

How 2025–26 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

55th 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

4th line
  • Goals /600.267th pct
  • Assists /600.7831st pct
  • ixG /601.0279th pct
  • Goals above expected−2.924th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)58.2%96th pct
  • CF% (5v5)59.8%98th pct
  • Relative xGF%+9.899th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0037th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game12:5133rd pct
  • PP time share19.8%43rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts54.5%51st pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%14th 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.

Most similar players this season

Needs a regular role to compare.

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.

−2.9 goals above expected

0123424681012141618Game

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/h68th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph336th pct
  • Hardest shot135.6 km/h83rd pct
  • Distance skated11 km39th pct
  • Offensive-zone time45.9%81st 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

35.6 km/h33rd pct

2025–26 only

3535.53636.53725–262025–26: 35.6 km/h, 33rd percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.135th pct

2025–26 only

24681025–262025–26: 4.1, 35th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.3 km36th pct

2025–26 only

1515.215.415.615.81616.225–262025–26: 15.3 km, 36th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

141.2 km/h60th pct

2025–26 only

13013514014515025–262025–26: 141.2 km/h, 60th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

43.0%67th pct

2025–26 only

38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 43.0%, 67th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)