Alexander Nikishin Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

It stops working when he is paired with Jesperi Kotkaniemi

The pairing with Kotkaniemi is the one that costs him: 38.3% of the expected goals together, 59.4% apart.

185 minutes together, 1,032 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Kotkaniemi does better away from him: 63.0% of the expected goals apart against 38.3% together.

185 minutes together, 269 minutes apart

Mike Reilly is the partner who brings the best out of him

Nikishin is at his best beside Reilly: 63.6% of the expected goals together against 54.7% apart.

207 minutes together, 1,011 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Staal is a different player beside him: 62.1% of the expected goals with Nikishin, 55.2% without him.

203 minutes together, 737 minutes apart for Staal

He and Andrei Svechnikov are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Nikishin and Svechnikov: 5.92 expected goals an hour.

233 minutes together at 5v5

Jackson Blake is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Blake than anyone: 405 minutes, worth 59.4% of the expected goals.

21 goals for, 14 against together

The goals go his team's way when Logan Stankoven is out there with him

With Stankoven on the ice too, the Hurricanes have outscored opponents 23 to 13 at 5v5.

63.9% goal share over 403 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Mike Reilly are out together

He gives up least beside Reilly: 3.18 expected goals against an hour.

207 minutes together at 5v5

Taylor Hall is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Hall: 96.2% of the expected goals over 69 minutes.

10 goals for, 1 against together

Seth Jarvis is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Jarvis: 5.16 expected goals against an hour.

34 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Nikishin with Blake, Gostisbehere, Hall and Stankoven, 93 minutes at 5v5.

60.2% of the expected goals, 7 goals for and 7 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Blake, Ehlers, Hall and Stankoven: 6 goals in 32 minutes.

11.13 goals an hour, 4.1 expected

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Aho, Jarvis and Walker: 2 goals against in 13 minutes.

9.17 against an hour, 1.4 expected

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Carrier, Gostisbehere, Jankowski and Robinson: 63.5% of the expected goals over 32 minutes.

0 goals for, 1 against, 68.9% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Nikishin has played 55 different five-man units at 5v5, 4 of them for real minutes.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled

The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

17 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Nikishin this season.

each of them also has that long apart from him, so every split below is a real split

Sebastian Aho is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Sebastian Aho has assisted on 7 of his 11 goals, 63.6% of them.

5 primary, 2 secondary

Mark Jankowski is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 4 of Mark Jankowski's goals, 18.2% of his own assists.

2 primary, 2 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

54.5% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

12 primary of 22 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

11 different teammates have assisted on his 11 goals.

Aho (7), Jarvis (3), Ehlers (2), Svechnikov (1)

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Nikishin's line owns 58.5% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,404 for, 997 against, 9th of 245 defencemen

Good things happen for his team when he is on the ice

The Hurricanes are up 37 goals with Nikishin on the ice.

91 for, 54 against, 11th of 245 defencemen

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 49.12 shot attempts an hour with Nikishin on the ice at 5v5.

14th of 245 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Hurricanes create 5.2 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Nikishin on.

20th of 245 defencemen

His line puts far more rubber on the net than it allows

55.8% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Nikishin is on.

625 for, 496 against, 21st of 245 defencemen

His line spends the night in the other team's end

At 5v5 the Hurricanes generate 56.1% of the expected goals with Nikishin on the ice.

105.5 xGF to 82.4 xGA over 1,218 minutes, 24th of 245 defencemen

His team wins the goal battle while he is on the ice

The Hurricanes score 57.0% of the 5v5 goals with Nikishin out there.

57 for, 43 against, 37th of 245 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.5, close to neutral.

9.1% shooting and 91.3% goaltending behind him, 109th of 245 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.06 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

59th of 245 defencemen

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 9.07 expected goals an hour.

6 goals against in 87 minutes, 50th of 156 defencemen

The power play is ordinary with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 9.66 expected goals an hour.

24 goals in 116 minutes, 36th of 85 defencemen

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:25 of penalty kill time a game, 138th among defencemen.

5.9% of his total ice time

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Nikishin plays 18:11 a night, 137th among defencemen.

1,473 minutes across 81 games

He gets an ordinary share of the power play time

He draws 1:48 of power play time a game, 48th among defencemen.

7.9% of his total ice time

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +18 on the season.

54th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

26 takeaways against 87 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.3 takeaways per giveaway

He chips in points even when his team is a man down

He has 1 short-handed points this season.

212th in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.54 times an hour.

234th most giveaways an hour

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.41 points an hour.

235th in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 3.83 shots an hour of ice time.

262nd in the league

He takes the puck off people more than almost anyone

He takes the puck back 1.06 times an hour.

280th in the league

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 5.38 checks an hour.

328th in the league

He is the one who makes the play, not the one who finishes it

He sets up 0.9 assists an hour of ice time.

402nd in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Nikishin produces 1.34 points an hour of ice time.

447th in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.45 goals an hour of ice time.

451st in the league

He puts about as many pucks on net as anyone

He puts 4.97 shots on goal an hour.

503rd in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.34 penalty minutes an hour.

486th most penalty minutes an hour

He shoots the puck far more than most players at his position

He fires 13.16 attempts an hour of ice time.

323 attempts in 1,473 minutes, 31st of 245 defencemen

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Nikishin has taken 323 shot attempts this season.

112 on goal, 73 missed, 127 blocked, 34th of 241 defencemen

He rarely gets into the dangerous areas of the ice

18.3% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

59 of 323 attempts, 203rd of 241 defencemen

He works the outside and rarely gets to the front of the net

18.3% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

59 attempts from inside the home plate, 201st of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

22.6% of his attempts are the slap shot.

73 attempts, 6 goals

He works one side of the ice far more than the other

47.1% of his attempts come from the left side.

152 left, 78 middle, 93 right

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

39.3% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

127 of 323 attempts, 158th of 241 defencemen

He hits the net about as often as anyone

62.8% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

123 of 196 unblocked, 135th of 241 defencemen

He shoots from about where everyone else shoots from

His average attempt comes from 41.8 feet.

323 located attempts, 132nd of 241 defencemen

His long range shooting is about league average

48.3% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

156 long-range attempts, 128th of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Nikishin has scored 1 times on Thomas Milic this season, more than on any other goaltender.

1 goals on 6 attempts, 16.7%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Jacob Markstrom has turned him away every time: 11 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Stuart Skinner: 13 attempts, 1 goal.

7.7% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Devils have held him without a goal on 16 attempts.

the most attempts he has taken against a club without scoring

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Jacob Melanson has hit him 4 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

He gets under this opponent's skin and draws the penalty

He has drawn 2 penalties on Oliver Moore.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 0.0% of his attempts.

0 goals on 59 close attempts, 144th of 221 defencemen

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Nikishin has 11 goals off 10.0 expected: 1.0 more than the chances alone say.

31st of 241 defencemen

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 8.9% of the shots he puts on goal.

11 goals on 123 shots, 41st of 241 defencemen

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 43.5 feet out, and the longest went in from 57.

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