Compare players, 2025-26 season

At a glance

Lian Bichsel Nick DeSimone

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

Lian Bichsel D, DAL		2025-26	Nick DeSimone D, UTA
	50	Games played	40
	4	Goals	2
	4	Assists	6
	8	Points	8
	0.16	Points per game	0.20
	6	Plus/minus	4
	27	Shots	35
	14.8	Shooting %	5.7
	139	Hits	19
	37	Penalty minutes	10
	15:40	Average ice time	14:13
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	46.1	Corsi for %	53.6
	-1.2	CF% relative to team	+1.2
	45.9	Fenwick for %	54.1
	49.3	Expected goals for %	54.1
	-3.7	xGF% relative to team	+0.8
	57.4	Goals for %	54.5
	104.2	PDO	100.6
	83	Shot attempts taken	77
Expected goals, all situations
	1.3	Expected goals	2.2
	0.10	Expected goals per 60	0.23
	3.1%	Chance per attempt	4.0%
	+2.7	Goals above expected	-0.2
Rating, in goals
	-0.5	Goals above replacement	+1.6
	-0.1	Wins above replacement	+0.3
	-2.2	Even-strength offence	-1.2
	-0.3	Even-strength defence	+1.5
	0.0	Power play	0.0
	+0.1	Penalty kill	+0.0
	-0.7	Penalties	-0.5
Contract
	$918K	Cap hit	$800K
	$115K	Cap dollars per point	$100K
	$362K	Worth at the going rate	$2.2M
	-$556K	Value: worth minus cap hit	+$1.4M

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