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Nikolaj Ehlers

L · Carolina Hurricanes · career →

82 GP · 1,044 min 5v5
2025-26 · 5v5
Adjusts with rink filters
on-ice for◀ 5v5 offense
on-ice against5v5 defense ▶
How to read this map

One rink, both ends while Nikolaj Ehlers is on the ice: what the team generates on the left, what it concedes on the right. Every attempt is a Gaussian bump of height = its model xG, summed per 60 minutes of ice time (a player's exposure is time, not games). The controls switch the surface (xG heatmapvs league, the league baseline per team-hour at the same strength) and the markers: × goal · on net · missed · small blocked — and own shots narrows the left end's markers to attempts Nikolaj Ehlers took.

The page opens at 5v5; empty-net attempts are excluded throughout. On-ice membership comes from the shift charts; attempts without usable shift coverage are absent from both ends. Blocked-shot membership cannot be cross-checked against the play-by-play, so treat blocked-marker detail as softer than the rest.

Observed production

5v5 · on-ice
for against
axis spans ±200% of the forward cohort average · centre = average · right = more
Goalson-ice
53 85th pctl43 72nd pctl
Shotson-ice
583 95th pctl376 53rd pctl
Attemptson-ice
1,220 95th pctl796 51st pctl
xGon-ice
52.4 90th pctl40.8 67th pctl
xGF%share of on-ice xG
56.2%91st pctl
0% 50% = even split · gray = cohort middle 50% / 90% 100%

Percentiles rank against the other forwards over the display floor at the selected strength — a non-strength filter (rush, period, …) moves the bars but keeps that strength's spread as the backdrop.

Rolling on-ice xGF%

5v5 · on-ice
Per-game chance share while on the ice, smoothed. drag the slider to set the window

Model estimates

🔒 full season · not filtered
Season-long ratings — the filters above don't apply here. goals/60 vs cohort average · bar grows from average
Shootingfinishing · goals/60
+0.1793rd pctl
↳ attempts
4,33491st pctl
↳ shooting talent
+0.2798th pctl
own attempts × per-shot logit
OffenseRAPM · team xGF/60 impact
+0.1888th pctl
DefenseRAPM · team xGA/60 impact (sign-flipped)
+0.0566th pctl
GAA/60goals above average / 60 · comprehensive
Shooting +0.17 goals/60Offense +0.18 goals/60Defense +0.05 goals/60
+0.4195th pctl
the three rows above, stacked — shooting + offense + defense
−0.46average+0.46

Ranked against forwards; the band behind each bar is that cohort's spread (p5–p95, middle half brighter, dashed median), so where a bar lands against its band is the rank — the ordinal beside it makes that exact. The per-shot rating is quality only: it says nothing about how many attempts a player generates or faces, which is what the attempts sub-row is for.

Usage & context

descriptive · not modeled
The job the coach handed Nikolaj Ehlers, not how well it went. Not a modeled component: each is its own metric (minutes, a rate, a TOI share, or opponents'/teammates' net xG-RAPM), shown with a cohort percentile only where one exists, never added together. Not a grade. The deployment rows are measured over the same 5v5 stints the isolate is fit on (regular season + playoffs); ice time and the penalty rates are all situations, every game — penalties create non-5v5 time, so a 5v5 denominator would inflate every rate.
Time on iceall situations · min per game
16:34per game
Penalties takenminor penalties / 60
0.35per 60 · all situations
Penalties drawnminor penalties / 60
0.71per 60 · all situations
Zone startsOZS% · O-zone start share
57%offensive / (off + def)
Score stateTOI by game state
trail 23%tied 37%lead 40%
leads a lot
Competition (QoC)opponents' net xG-RAPM
+0.021xG/60
Teammates (QoT)teammates' net xG-RAPM
+0.137xG/60
On-the-flyshare of 5v5 TOI
65%of 5v5 TOI
0cohort average100 pctl

A skater absent from the fit counts as exactly cohort average (0) in QoC/QoT — the same claim ridge shrinkage makes. Penalty rates are descriptive only: taken-rate includes defensively correct penalties, and neither side is opponent- or deployment-adjusted. Nothing here is priced in goals.

Full table · all numbers
FamilyStatValue (current slice)
Observed ◆ filtered Goals on-ice for / against 53 / 43
Observed ◆ filtered xG on-ice for / against 52.4 / 40.8
Observed ◆ filtered Shots on-ice for / against 583 / 376
Observed ◆ filtered Attempts on-ice for / against 1,220 / 796
Observed ◆ filteredxGF% 56.2%
Modeled 🔒 season Shooting — finishing · goals/60 +0.17 93rd pctl
Modeled 🔒 season ↳ attempts (own attempts) 4,334 91st pctl
Modeled 🔒 season ↳ shooting talent (per-shot logit) +0.27 98th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season Offense — RAPM · team xGF/60 impact +0.18 88th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season Defense — RAPM · team xGA/60 impact (sign-flipped) +0.05 66th pctl
Modeled 🔒 seasonGAA/60 +0.41 95th pctl
ContextTime on ice — all situations · min per game 16:34 (65th pctl)
ContextPenalties taken — minor penalties / 60 0.35 (14th pctl)
ContextPenalties drawn — minor penalties / 60 0.71 (41st pctl)
ContextZone starts — OZS% · O-zone start share 57% (77th pctl)
ContextScore state — TOI by game state trail 23%, tied 37%, lead 40%
ContextCompetition (QoC) — opponents' net xG-RAPM +0.021 (89th pctl)
ContextTeammates (QoT) — teammates' net xG-RAPM +0.137 (98th pctl)
ContextOn-the-fly — share of 5v5 TOI 65%

Observed values reflect the active rink filters; modeled values are fixed at their full-season fit.

On-ice numbers pair the regular-season shot set with shift-chart membership; skaters and goalies under the display floors are fit but not shown. Modeled rows come from the value artifact keyed to RAPM fit rapm__c5b9b663 on flat__joint_structure_xg__4f64c88b (the joint-xg structural baseline), with ratings from joint__baseline_xg__42ccb89b (as of 2026-06-14) — separate surfaces from the box-score xG model badged in the footer.