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Nick Robertson

#14 · Left wing · Pittsburgh Penguins

Born Sep 11, 2001 in Pasadena, California, USA (age 25) · 5'9", 180 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 53rd overall in 2019 by TOR (round 2)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2026-27. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Adam Lowry WPG · 3 P in 4 GP Anders Lee UTA · 3 P in 4 GP Brock Boeser VAN · 3 P in 4 GP Easton Cowan TOR · 3 P in 4 GP Hendrix Lapierre PIT · 3 P in 4 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.

01020302020-21: 1 points120-212021-22: 1 points121-222022-23: 5 points522-232023-24: 27 points2723-242024-25: 22 points2224-252025-26: 32 points3225-262026-27: 3 points326-27

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2020-21 TOR 6 0 1 1 1 0 9 3 0.17 $822K
2021-22 TOR 10 1 0 1 -4 4 14 10 0.10 $797K
2022-23 TOR 15 2 3 5 2 0 27 18 0.33 $797K
2023-24 TOR 56 14 13 27 4 4 96 34 0.48 $797K
2024-25 TOR 69 15 7 22 -1 16 112 79 0.32 $875K
2025-26 TOR 78 16 16 32 -13 10 127 75 0.41 $1.825M
2026-27 PIT 4 3 0 3 3 4 7 0 0.75 $3.25M
7 seasons Career 238 51 40 91 -8 38 392 219 0.38

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2019-20 TOR 4 1 0 1 -1 2 7 2 0.25
2023-24 TOR 6 0 0 0 -2 0 11 6 0.00
2024-25 TOR 3 1 1 2 1 6 2 3 0.67
3 seasons Playoffs 13 2 1 3 -2 8 20 11 0.23

2026-27 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
4 3 0 3 3 4 7 0 0.75 42.9 13:06

Contract

$3.25MCap hitends in 2028, then RFA
$1.083MCap dollars per point3 points in 4 games
$783KCap dollars per goal above replacement4.1 goals above replacement, projected
$4.8MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$1.5MValueworth less cap hit

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. The season is still being played, so each rating is projected over all of it: what the player has done so far, plus the games left at a rate taken from his last three seasons and this one. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 647 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins on Jul 14, 2026, as a new contract: 2 years and $6.5M, beginning in 2026-27. It runs through 2027-28, with 1 season left after this one, and he is then a restricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2026-27 $3.25M
2027-28 $3.25M

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
Jul 14, 2026 Pittsburgh Penguins New contract 2026-27 to 2027-28 2 $6.5M $3.25M
2025-26 to 2025-26 $1.825M
Sep 10, 2024 Toronto Maple Leafs New contract 2024-25 to 2024-25 1 $875K $875K
Sep 19, 2019 Toronto Maple Leafs Entry-level 2021-22 to 2023-24 signed for 2019-20, slid 3 $2.56M $797K

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 2026-27 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.

2026-27 analytics

Rating, projected over the full season

2026-27 is still being played, so these are a projection of his whole season, not a count so far: what he has done in 4 games (+0.3 goals above replacement), plus the 71 more he is taken to play, going by how much of his team's games he has played before, at a rate set by his last three seasons and this one. The more he plays, the more this season counts, and by the last game it is simply his season.

+4.1Goals above replacement226th of 647 skaters, 160th of 422 forwards
+0.7Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+1.6Goals above averagethe five parts below added up

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 422 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+0.5 56th percentileEven-strength defence+0.9 69th percentilePower play-0.5 16th percentilePenalty kill+0.2 81st percentilePenalties+0.5 60th 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.

-202462020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Goals 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

51.5Corsi for %50 attempts for, 47 against
+1.4CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
59.9Expected goals for %2.6 expected for, 1.8 against
+4.8xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
55.1Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
80.0Goals for %4 for, 1 against
107.7PDO12.5% shooting + 95.2% saves
9Attempts 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
Sidney Crosby · Rickard Rakell · Nick Robertson331:2558.068.13-1
Connor Dewar · Blake Lizotte · Nick Robertson27:5746.269.61-0
Evgeni Malkin · Sidney Crosby · Nick Robertson21:000.00.00-0
Connor Dewar · Nick Robertson · Elmer Soderblom10:590.00.00-0

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.

3Goalsnot counting empty-netters
0.5Expected goalsfrom 10 unblocked attempts
+2.5Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.56 expected goals per 60 minutes1st
Shot quality 4.9% chance per attempt1st
Finishing +2.5 goals above expected1stOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 0 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

0123Goals 3Expected 0.5

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
Oct 7, 2026 @ WSH L 3-5 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 08:32
Oct 5, 2026 vs WPG L 2-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:14
Oct 3, 2026 vs MTL W 6-5 (OT) 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 13:35
Sep 30, 2026 @ PHI W 7-0 2 0 2 2 2 4 0 15:02