Nazem Kadri

Nazem Kadri

C · Left shotFirst LinerAge 366'0" · 185 lbLondon, Canada
cap hit$7M7-year signingsigned Aug. 18, 2022contract ledger →

Points by season

Career NHL points, ending with the 84-game projection (violet).

20: 36 pts362021: 32 pts3222: 87 pts872223: 56 pts5624: 75 pts752425: 67 pts6726: 41 pts412626: 9 pts955PROJ27: 16 pts (projected 55)27

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

62/100
why 62?

Each row is one fantasy category turned into points over a full 84-game season. Add the rows up and that is his total fantasy worth.

  • proj goals20 × 3+60
  • proj assists35 × 1+35
  • PP points27 × 0.5+13.5
  • game-winning goals4 × 0.5+2
  • OT goals0 × 0.25+0
  • shots225 × 0.1+22.5
  • PIM27 × 0.05+1.4
  • ice time (min)1548 × 0.01+15.5
  • total150 pool points  ·  an elite forward season scores 242150 = 62/100

Weights follow what the average fantasy league actually counts: goals at 3× assists (the universal core), power-play points and game-winners at half weight (common extra categories), OT goals, shots and PIM small (many leagues skip them), and ice time as a quiet availability bonus. The scale: add up a whole season of those categories and compare against the best forwards in the NHL — an elite season scores about 242 points, and that is what 100 means. So 150 points is 62 out of a perfect fantasy season at his position. Defensemen and forwards are graded on separate scales because the D slot can only be filled by a defenseman. Goals and assists come from the backtested season model; the rest ride your own season-to-date pace over 84 games (19 games so far — small sample, secondary lines will move as roles settle). Hits/blocks are excluded: the free NHL feeds don't publish full-season totals, and we don't invent them.

The Situation

  • Minutes are shrinking: 16:52/game over the last 6, down 15% from 19:51 earlier in the season.
  • Shooting more: 3.5 SOG/game lately vs 2.3 before — volume is there even if points lag.
  • Every night: in the lineup for all of the team's last 10 games.
  • Availability: every game this season — 16 of 16 for COL.
  • Veteran card: age 36 — minutes and back-to-back load worth watching down the stretch.

Every line is measured from our own boxscore ledger; absence reasons from the NHL Status Report and our transaction wire only — no insider guessing.

Finishing check on pace O/U ▼ −1.0

Model: goals vs shot volume vs live league position baselines; talent SH% is an empirical-Bayes shrinkage of the season…

His shooting talent is estimated by shrinking his season shooting percentage toward his league position mean in proportion to sample size (kappa pseudo-shots prior), then projecting the gap over 84 games at his current shot volume. Small samples stay near zero — the number only moves when the evidence does.

The method follows published hockey-analytics research: a shooter is judged against his own career shooting percentage, because a player's own career rate predicts his next goals better than any league average (“Expected by Whom? A Skill-Adjusted Expected Goals Model for NHL Shooters and Goaltenders,” arXiv:2511.07703). Thin careers (rookies) shrink toward the league mean for the position, and the season number is shrunk toward the player's own anchor with empirical-Bayes weights — Nandakumar & Jensen (2019), Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105202. This section is about the gap between luck and his pace, not talent.

Season stats

NHL regular-season totals, season by season. The 84-G proj line extends the current season with our public model — methodology in the caption below the table.

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMPPGPPPSHGTOI/GPGWGOTGSS%FOW%
2009-10Maple Leafs1000-1000017:260000.0%15.4%
2010-11Maple Leafs293912-3802015:4700515.9%40.5%
2011-12Maple Leafs215272811014:10102817.9%26.7%
2012-13Maple Leafs48182644152358016:031010716.8%44.3%
2013-14Maple Leafs78203050-1167718017:232114813.5%45.3%
2014-15Maple Leafs73182139-72837117:361017610.2%46.2%
2015-16Maple Leafs76172845-1573414018:16212606.5%49.2%
2016-17Maple Leafs82322961-7951217016:356223613.6%48.0%
2017-18Maple Leafs803223552421219016:463021115.2%50.0%
2018-19Maple Leafs73162844-243413016:11501848.7%55.2%
2019-20Avalanche51191736797411017:261013314.3%56.8%
2020-21Avalanche56112132-73439016:28301706.5%52.8%
2021-22Avalanche712859871371829019:146024711.3%49.7%
2022-23Flames82243256-19561119017:13402679.0%47.5%
2023-24Flames822946750431022018:264227710.5%48.9%
2024-25Flames82353267-1772922019:215227912.5%46.2%
2025-26Flames61122941-2724213019:22101756.9%47.7%
2025-26Avalanche16459-3636017:48103810.5%39.6%
2026-27Avalanche20511160837018:3410568.9%47.7%
84-G projAvalanche84203555—33—21—17:10——187——

84-G proj — current pace blended with the player's own history (recent seasons weighted heaviest), mixed with a similarity projection from historical players with comparable profiles, then adjusted for the aging curve (league-average peak at 27; decline after) — at age 36 that is -6%. Dashes mark stats the model doesn't project.

Comparable player-seasons: Pierre-Luc Dubois (2025-25) · Mikael Granlund (2025-25) · Elias Pettersson (2025-25) · William Karlsson (2024-24) · Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (2025-25).

Goals — with the line

TimeSTTypeGoalHis lineOpp ice
Nov 12 · @ OTT
P2 18:04PPAssist#? (Kadri, Hughes) → 1-2
Kadri · Necas · Hughes
Malinski
Amadio · Stützle
Kleven · Matinpalo
Ullmark (G)
Nov 10 · @ TOR
P3 05:02EVAssist#? (Kadri, Malinski) → 4-3
Kadri · Roy
Toews · Malinski
Tavares · Nylander · Tverberg
McCabe · Raddysh
Bobrovsky (G)
Nov 3 · @ CBJ
P2 16:35PPGoal#? (MacKinnon, Makar) → 2-6
Landeskog · MacKinnon · Hughes
Makar
Monahan
Werenski · Provorov
Talbot (G)
Nov 2 · @ CHI
P1 15:23EVGoal#? (Landeskog, Burns) → 1-2
Landeskog · Roy
Burns · Malinski
Teravainen · Smith · Greene
Mastro · Levshunov
Knight (G)
P2 13:38PPGoal#? (Makar, MacKinnon) → 3-2
Schwartz · MacKinnon · Hughes
Makar
Teravainen · Frondell
Cole · Vlasic
Knight (G)

Line mates

Teammates sharing the most ice time with Nazem over the last 10 games — reconstructed shift-by-shift from the NHL's official timing feed (goalies excluded).

PlayerShared minGP
Gabriel Landeskog COL9010
Cale Makar COL8210
T.J. Hughes COL6310
Nathan MacKinnon COL5910
Brett Kulak COL5110

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats