Compare players, 2025-26 season

At a glance

Nico Hischier Matthew Knies

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the regulars at his position: forwards against forwards, defencemen against defencemen. The gap between two players on a spoke is the real gap between their numbers. The dashed shape is the typical player. Hover over a dot for the number. The lines are each player's points adding up, game by game.

Where they shot from

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The numbers

Nico Hischier C, NJD		2025-26	Matthew Knies L, CBJ
	82	Games played	79
	28	Goals	23
	38	Assists	43
	66	Points	66
	0.80	Points per game	0.84
	-6	Plus/minus	-30
	211	Shots	140
	13.3	Shooting %	16.4
	58	Hits	152
	29	Penalty minutes	29
	20:43	Average ice time	18:48
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	54.4	Corsi for %	43.0
	+4.5	CF% relative to team	-3.2
	53.6	Fenwick for %	42.6
	52.8	Expected goals for %	42.8
	+6.2	xGF% relative to team	-4.1
	42.0	Goals for %	43.1
	96.6	PDO	100.4
	237	Shot attempts taken	159
Expected goals, all situations
	31.5	Expected goals	20.7
	1.11	Expected goals per 60	0.83
	10.5%	Chance per attempt	11.0%
	-4.5	Goals above expected	-2.7
Rating, in goals
	+11.1	Goals above replacement	+1.6
	+1.9	Wins above replacement	+0.3
	+2.8	Even-strength offence	+1.2
	+0.3	Even-strength defence	-3.2
	+1.7	Power play	-0.5
	+0.2	Penalty kill	-1.0
	+1.4	Penalties	+0.9
Contract
	$7.25M	Cap hit	$7.75M
	$110K	Cap dollars per point	$117K
	$10.2M	Worth at the going rate	$2.1M
	+$3M	Value: worth minus cap hit	-$5.6M

The better value in each stat is highlighted. Stats where more is not clearly better, such as games played, are not judged. Bars show each value against the larger of the two. What the advanced numbers mean