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Nikita Tolopilo

#60 · Goalie · Vancouver Canucks

Born Apr 6, 2000 in Minsk, BLR (age 26) · 6'6", 229 lb · Catches left

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 2025-26. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Charlie Lindgren WSH · 21 GP, 0.879 Vitek Vanecek UTA · 22 GP, 0.883 Dennis Hildeby TOR · 20 GP, 0.914 Leevi Meriläinen OTT · 20 GP, 0.860 Thatcher Demko VAN · 20 GP, 0.897

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.

051015202024-25: 2 games224-252025-26: 21 games2125-26

Games played by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save % Cap hit
2024-25 VAN 2 26 23 3 0.885 $950K
2025-26 VAN 21 582 513 69 0.881 $775K
2 seasons Career 23 608 536 72 0.882

2025-26 season totals

GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save % Goals against per game
21 582 513 69 0.881 3.29

Contract

$775KCap hitends in 2027
$192KCap dollars per goal above replacement4.0 goals above replacement
$1.8MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$1MValueworth 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. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 66 ranked goalies whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. It runs through 2026-27, with 1 season left after this one.

Season Cap hit
2025-26 $775K
2026-27 $775K

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
2025-26 to 2026-27 $775K
Mar 31, 2023 Vancouver Canucks Entry-level 2023-24 to 2024-25 2 $1.9M $950K

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 2025-26 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.

2025-26 analytics

Rating

+4.0Goals above replacement43rd of 66 goalies
+0.7Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-2.7Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 66 ranked goalies: 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. Goals above average is coloured as it is under Shots faced below, where it is taken per 60 minutes.

The goals he saved for his team, compared with a spare-part goalie facing the same shots. A goalie's season is about one-third the goalie and two-thirds chance, so read one year lightly. Provisional: under 40 games it is more chance than player.

012342024-252025-26Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

Shots faced

Expected goals adds up how likely each shot he faced was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. A goalie who lets in fewer than that has saved goals above expected. Only shots taken while he was in net count, and the league's goalies as a whole come out at zero. What these numbers mean

-2.7Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
66.3Expected goals againstfrom 893 unblocked attempts
69Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.881Save %0.886 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 68 goalies who played enough to be ranked: 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. The two goals against tiles are left plain, since they follow how much he played.

Goals saved -0.14 above expected per 60 minutes35th
Shot difficulty 7.4% chance per attempt faced96thA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 68 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

0204060Game 10Game 20Allowed 69Expected 66.3

The goals he was expected to let in and the goals he did, as the season went on. When the allowed line runs below the expected line, he is saving more than his shots were worth.

Where he was shot at

Every unblocked attempt he faced this season, with his net on the right. Darker red means more attempts from that spot, and each dot is a goal. "Show every shot" switches to a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result Shots against Saves Goals against Save % TOI
Apr 12, 2026 @ ANA W 4-3 (OT) 27 24 3 0.889 64:50
Apr 9, 2026 @ LAK L 1-4 26 22 4 0.846 56:18
Apr 7, 2026 vs VGK L 1-2 29 27 2 0.931 58:19
Apr 4, 2026 vs UTA L 4-7 24 18 6 0.750 58:21
Apr 2, 2026 @ MIN L 2-5 38 34 4 0.895 57:17
Mar 28, 2026 @ CGY L 3-7 11 7 4 0.636 24:36
Mar 14, 2026 vs SEA L 2-5 33 28 5 0.848 60:00
Mar 12, 2026 vs NSH W 4-3 (SO) 19 16 3 0.842 63:53
Mar 6, 2026 @ CHI W 6-3 23 20 3 0.870 60:00
Mar 4, 2026 vs CAR L 4-6 10 9 1 0.900 27:17
Mar 2, 2026 vs DAL L 1-6 37 31 6 0.838 60:00
Feb 25, 2026 vs WPG L 2-3 (OT) 28 25 3 0.893 61:16
Jan 31, 2026 vs TOR L 2-3 (SO) 41 39 2 0.951 65:00
Jan 29, 2026 vs ANA W 2-0 32 32 0 1.000 57:49
Jan 27, 2026 vs SJS L 2-5 27 25 2 0.926 54:05
Jan 17, 2026 vs EDM L 0-6 35 29 6 0.829 59:53
Jan 12, 2026 @ MTL L 3-6 41 35 6 0.854 60:00
Dec 8, 2025 vs DET L 0-4 6 6 0 1.000 19:12
Dec 6, 2025 vs MIN W 4-2 30 28 2 0.933 59:32
Nov 28, 2025 @ SJS L 2-3 24 21 3 0.875 58:11
Nov 26, 2025 @ ANA W 5-4 41 37 4 0.902 59:52