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Adam Erne

#73 · Left wing · Free agent, last with the Dallas Stars

Born Apr 20, 1995 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA · 6'1", 209 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 33rd overall in 2013 by TBL (round 2)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2016-17. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Ryan Garbutt ANA · 3 P in 27 GP Kyle Rau FLA · 3 P in 24 GP Laurent Dauphin ARI · 3 P in 24 GP Frederik Gauthier TOR · 3 P in 21 GP Paul Thompson FLA · 3 P in 21 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

051015202016-17: 3 points316-172017-18: 4 points417-182018-19: 20 points2018-192019-20: 5 points519-202020-21: 20 points2020-212021-22: 19 points1921-222022-23: 18 points1822-232023-24: 2 points223-242025-26: 8 points825-26

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2016-17 TBL 26 3 0 3 -9 11 40 71 0.12 $874K
2017-18 TBL 23 3 1 4 -1 11 29 37 0.17 $874K
2018-19 TBL 65 7 13 20 10 40 70 159 0.31 $800K
2019-20 DET 56 2 3 5 -24 28 63 142 0.09 $1.05M
2020-21 DET 45 11 9 20 -1 26 71 82 0.44 $998K
2021-22 DET 79 6 13 19 -22 34 108 161 0.24 $2.1M
2022-23 DET 61 8 10 18 -12 21 55 160 0.30 $2.1M
2023-24 EDM 24 1 1 2 0 9 13 68 0.08 $775K
2025-26 DAL 45 6 2 8 1 19 43 142 0.18 $775K
9 seasons Career 424 47 52 99 -58 199 492 1022 0.23

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2018-19 TBL 3 0 0 0 0 2 4 9 0.00
2025-26 DAL 1 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 0.00
2 seasons Playoffs 4 0 0 0 -1 2 6 11 0.00

2016-17 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
26 3 0 3 -9 11 40 71 0.12 7.5 11:48

Contract

$874KCap hit2016-17
$291KCap dollars per point3 points in 26 games
$779KCap dollars per goal above replacement1.1 goals above replacement
$1.3MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$416KValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 664 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. When it ends is not known.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
Oct 7, 2025 Dallas Stars New contract 2025-26 to 2025-26 1 $775K $775K
2023-24 to 2023-24 $775K
2021-22 to 2022-23 $2.1M
2020-21 to 2020-21 $998K
2019-20 to 2019-20 $1.05M
2016-17 to 2018-19 $874K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2016-17 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2016-17 analytics

Rating

+1.1Goals above replacement420th of 664 skaters, 294th of 435 forwards
+0.2Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+0.3Goals above averagethe five parts below added up

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 435 ranked forwards: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile.

Even-strength offence-1.1 36th percentileEven-strength defence+1.3 74th percentilePower play-0.3 29th percentilePenalty kill0.0 42nd percentilePenalties+0.4 54th percentile

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater, and the rank beside it is among forwards. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. Provisional: under 40 games it is more chance than player. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

-3-2-101232016-172018-192020-212022-232025-26Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

50.8Corsi for %248 attempts for, 240 against
+0.1CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
54.5Expected goals for %9.2 expected for, 7.7 against
+6.0xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
51.4Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
25.0Goals for %4 for, 12 against
93.9PDO3.2% shooting + 90.7% saves
60Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Yanni Gourde · Joel Vermin · Adam Erne644:4350.741.10-3
Vladislav Namestnikov · Adam Erne · Jonathan Drouin739:4544.363.81-3
Vladislav Namestnikov · Cedric Paquette · Adam Erne217:2868.256.71-0
Vladislav Namestnikov · Yanni Gourde · Adam Erne313:5976.984.51-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Chances and finishing

Expected goals adds up how likely each of his shots was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. All situations, leaving out shots at an empty net. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

3Goalsnot counting empty-netters
3.6Expected goalsfrom 58 unblocked attempts
-0.6Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.71 expected goals per 60 minutes49th
Shot quality 6.2% chance per attempt13th
Finishing -0.6 goals above expected47thOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 421 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

0123Game 20Expected 3.6Goals 3

His goals and his expected goals as the season went on. When the goals line pulls away above, he is scoring more than his chances were worth; below, less.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took this season, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 9, 2017 vs BUF W 4-2 0 0 0 -2 0 0 4 13:01
Apr 7, 2017 @ MTL W 4-2 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 09:40
Apr 6, 2017 @ TOR W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11:54
Apr 4, 2017 @ BOS L 0-4 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 09:04
Apr 2, 2017 vs DAL W 6-3 2 0 2 2 0 5 2 13:36
Apr 1, 2017 vs MTL L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11:44
Mar 30, 2017 vs DET W 5-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 10:12
Mar 27, 2017 vs CHI W 5-4 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 11:19
Mar 24, 2017 @ DET W 2-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 7 1 3 08:15
Mar 23, 2017 @ BOS W 6-3 0 0 0 -1 0 2 5 09:45
Mar 21, 2017 vs ARI L 3-5 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 13:50
Mar 18, 2017 vs WSH L 3-5 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 11:19
Mar 16, 2017 vs TOR L 0-5 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 12:46
Mar 14, 2017 @ OTT W 2-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 08:30
Mar 13, 2017 @ NYR W 3-2 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 12:22
Mar 11, 2017 vs FLA W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:01
Mar 9, 2017 vs MIN W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 14:20
Mar 6, 2017 vs NYR L 0-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 6 2 11:32
Mar 4, 2017 @ BUF W 2-1 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:32
Mar 3, 2017 @ PIT L 2-5 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 13:35
Mar 1, 2017 vs CAR W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 15:12
Feb 27, 2017 vs OTT W 5-1 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 13:33
Jan 8, 2017 @ PIT L 2-6 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 11:19
Jan 7, 2017 @ PHI L 2-4 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 08:36
Jan 5, 2017 vs NSH L 1-6 0 0 0 -2 0 1 6 14:59
Jan 3, 2017 vs WPG L 4-6 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 12:03