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Nick Cousins

C · 5′11″ / 191 lb · Shoots L · Belleville, CAN · Age 33 · 2011 #68 by PHI

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218Career points

0.302Career P/GP

723Games played

86Goals

12 seasonsNHL service

Overview

2025-2623points

The latest read.

23 points in 81 games in 2025-26. Career: 218 points across 723 games.

81GP

9goals

14assists

23points

79shots

0PP points

official NHL landing · 2025-26

The career ledger.

Regular season and playoffsofficial NHL landing

Regular season218 pts

86 G · 132 A · 723 GP
0.302 P/GP · 21 PPP · 12:16 ATOI

Stanley Cup playoffs16 pts

4 G · 12 A · 72 GP
0.222 P/GP · 2 PPP · 12:25 ATOI

0.000 → 0.284P/GP by season · 12 seasons of 10+ GP · peak 2019-20

The arc.

Points and points per game by seasonNHL season log · 12 seasons

pointspoints per gamecareer 0.302peak 2019-20

When it mattered.

Postseason against the field. A smaller, self-selected population, so it is marked on the scale rather than filled1,215 all-time peers

Playoff career · 72 GP · 4 G · 12 A · 16 pts (0.222 P/GP)

Points · his class51.0

#25 of 49

Points · all-time64.9

#427 of 1,215

Goals · all-time57.0

#524 of 1,215

Last five games.

Most recent official appearancesofficial game log

2026-04-25vs CARPlayoff7:18 TOI0G 0A0 P · 2 S

2026-04-23vs CARPlayoff7:32 TOI0G 1A1 P · 0 S

2026-04-20@ CARPlayoff15:04 TOI0G 0A0 P · 0 S

2026-04-18@ CARPlayoff11:49 TOI0G 0A0 P · 0 S

2026-04-15vs TOR13:56 TOI0G 0A0 P · 3 S

What this draft slot returns.

Base rate for the exact pick, a history, never a forecastdraft-position study · 2026-07-14-prospect-translation-v2.32

2011 draft#68round 3 · PHI

Rates: insufficient sample (n=10 of 32): no NHLer/impact/star/stayer rate shown for this cohort.

Career games played

Typical pick #68168players taken #68, expected career games

Nick Cousins723official NHL regular-season games to date

Sample: 10 players taken #68, drawn only from classes old enough to judge, on the Schuckers-style pick curve published on Draft Value. A base rate describes a slot, not a person: it cannot predict this career and is not used to grade it.

Floor rule: rates below a minimum sample are suppressed, not shown thin. Exact slot needs 12+ players, the pooled pick-curve band needs 32+, matching this site's builders to the nhl-draft-intel engine's own bucket-calibration floors (12 / 18 / 32).

Against history.

Percentile against every NHL peercareer totals · position-aware

Career P/GP26.7

#732 of 997 · 0.302

Points75.9

#522 of 2,161 · 218

Goals74.4

#554 of 2,161 · 86

Assists77.4

#489 of 2,161 · 132

Games played84.2

#342 of 2,161 · 723

The height of the career.

Peak season and the best five41+ GP qualified seasons

2019-20 peak: 65 GP / 10 G / 15 A / 25 Pts / 0.385 P/GP · 13:31 TOI

Best five	GP	G	A	PTS	P/GP
2019-20	65	10	15	25	0.385
2020-21	52	5	13	18	0.346
2022-23	79	9	18	27	0.342
2018-19	81	7	20	27	0.333
2021-22	68	9	13	22	0.324
Prime-five	345	40	79	119	0.345

Honours.

Trophies won and near missesofficial NHL landing

Stanley Cup2023-24

Career

Where he stands right now.

2025-26 league position and career shapeNHL league browser 2025-26

League context#369points among 940 skaters

Position context#129C scoring rank

Career peak272018-19 · points

NHL career12seasons · 7 clubs

Season by season.

Every NHL season · peak highlighted, split seasons kept apart13 regular-season rows

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PPP	S
2025-26	Ottawa Senators	81	9	14	23	+8	0	79
2024-25	Ottawa Senators	50	6	9	15	-1	0	68
2023-24	Florida Panthers	69	7	8	15	+1	0	111
2022-23	Florida Panthers	79	9	18	27	-1	0	102
2021-22	Nashville Predators	68	9	13	22	-8	4	103
2020-21	Nashville Predators	52	5	13	18	+4	4	60
2019-20Peak	Montréal Canadiens	58	9	13	22	+1	4	105
2019-20Peak	Vegas Golden Knights	7	1	2	3	-1	1	10
2018-19	Arizona Coyotes	81	7	20	27	-8	3	144
2017-18	Arizona Coyotes	71	12	7	19	-7	1	119
2016-17	Philadelphia Flyers	60	6	10	16	-6	2	99
2015-16	Philadelphia Flyers	36	6	5	11	+5	2	41
2014-15	Philadelphia Flyers	11	0	0	0	+1	0	6

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PPP	S
2025-26	Ottawa Senators	4	0	1	1	-1	0	2
2024-25	Ottawa Senators	5	0	0	0	0	0	2
2023-24	Florida Panthers	12	0	1	1	-1	0	9
2022-23	Florida Panthers	21	2	5	7	0	0	26
2021-22	Nashville Predators	3	0	0	0	-4	0	0
2020-21	Nashville Predators	4	2	0	2	-1	1	8
2019-20	Vegas Golden Knights	17	0	5	5	0	1	24
2015-16	Philadelphia Flyers	6	0	0	0	0	0	4

The same numbers, in the league that produced them.

Every qualified season levelled to a 3.00-goal NHLofficial final standings · 1990-91 onward

2019-20 is the best season either way: 0.385 raw, 0.382 once the league it happened in is levelled out.

Season	GP	Raw P/GP	League GF/gm	Adj. P/GP
2025-26	81	0.284	3.13	0.272
2024-25	50	0.300	3.04	0.296
2023-24	69	0.217	3.11	0.210
2022-23	79	0.342	3.18	0.322
2021-22	68	0.324	3.14	0.309
2020-21	52	0.346	2.94	0.354
2019-20Best adjusted	65	0.385	3.02	0.382
2018-19	81	0.333	3.01	0.332
2017-18	71	0.268	2.97	0.270
2016-17	60	0.267	2.77	0.289
2015-16	36	0.306	2.71	0.338

Method: each season's raw points per game is multiplied by 3.00 ÷ that season's league goals per team-game, taken from the official final standings. Seasons under 20 games are excluded. It levels scoring climate and nothing else (not role, ice time, teammates, schedule or injury), so treat it as one comparison, not a verdict.

Before the NHL.

Junior, college, European and international rowsofficial NHL landing · season totals

Season	League	Team	GP	G	A	PTS
2015-16	AHL	Lehigh Valley	38	12	26	38
2014-15	AHL	Lehigh Valley	64	22	34	56
2013-14	AHL	Adirondack Phantoms	74	11	18	29
2012-13	AHL	Adirondack Phantoms	7	0	1	1
2012-13	OHL	Sault Ste. Marie	64	27	76	103
2012-13	OHL	Sault Ste. Marie	6	3	3	6
2011-12	AHL	Adirondack Phantoms	1	0	0	0
2011-12	OHL	Sault Ste. Marie	65	35	53	88
2010-11	OHL	Sault Ste. Marie	68	29	39	68
2010-11	WJ18-A	Canada	7	4	4	8
2009-10	OHL	Sault Ste. Marie	67	11	21	32
2009-10	OHL	Sault Ste. Marie	5	0	1	1
2008-09	Minor-ON	Quinte	71	72	67	139
2008-09	OJHL	Trenton	5	0	1	1

The comparable set.

Chosen by a printed rule, not by feelNHL dossier pool · 1,162 careers

Selection rule. Forwards only; career games played within ±20% of 723 (or ±10 games, whichever band is wider: 578 to 868); then the five nearest by career P/GP, ties broken by the closest games played. The pool is the 1,162 players in this site's NHL dossier set who own at least one official regular-season game: 105 of them cleared the band.

Brandon TanevL · Undrafted · active608 GP · 84 G · 99 A · 183 P0.301 P/GP · −0.001 Radek FaksaC · 2012 #13 · active766 GP · 96 G · 136 A · 232 P0.303 P/GP · +0.001 Nic DowdC · 2009 #198 · active657 GP · 89 G · 108 A · 197 P0.300 P/GP · −0.002 Colton SissonsC · 2012 #50 · active756 GP · 101 G · 131 A · 232 P0.307 P/GP · +0.005 Mattias JanmarkC · 2013 #79 · active680 GP · 83 G · 138 A · 221 P0.325 P/GP · +0.023

Similar career shape is not similar player. The rule matches volume and rate only; it knows nothing about era, position within the group, usage or role, and two careers can land on the same line for opposite reasons.

Insights

NHL Edge tracking.

Measured puck and player tracking · 2025-26 regular seasonNHL Edge tracking · api-web.nhle.com · coverage from 2021-22 · fetched 2026-08-17

Tracked axisMeasuredPercentile, 0 to 100Pct

Top shot speed86.6mph60.3

139.4 km/h equivalent · league average 83.6 mph

Max skating speed22.1mph44.3

35.6 km/h equivalent · league average 22.2 mph

Distance skated251.7km58.0

156.4 mi equivalent · league average 198.8 km

Most distance in one game4.6km48.5

2.9 mi equivalent · league average 4.7 km

Bursts over 20 mph38bursts38.1

league average 75.2

Where the shift was spent

Offensive zone time44.1%75.5

league average 43.1

Neutral zone time18.1%65.6

league average 16.8

Defensive zone time37.9%77.2

league average 40.1

Shots on goal, by location

All shots on goal79shots52.9

league average 85.9 shots

High-danger shots on goal36shots60.8

league average 31.6 shots

Method: every figure and every percentile on this panel is published by the NHL Edge endpoint. This site converts nothing and ranks nothing. The percentile column is the league's own, against the tracked population for 2025-26. Speeds arrive in mph and km/h; distance is read in kilometres with the mile conversion stated beside it. Tracked seasons on file for this player: 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26.

The shot map.

Where his shots came from · 2025-26 regular season · NHL Edge areasNHL Edge shot-location detail · api-web.nhle.com · fetched 2026-08-18

Hover, tap or focus an area for its exact figures. Net at the top; left and right as the shooter sees them.

AreaShotsShare of hisPct

Low Slot306 G58th

High Slot101 G62th

Offensive Neutral Zone80 G97th

Crease61 G70th

Outside L60 G68th

L Circle40 G35th

R Circle41 G37th

Center Point30 G60th

L Net Side30 G62th

R Point20 G50th

L Corner10 G84th

L Point10 G30th

Outside R10 G23th

Behind the Net00 G0th

Beyond Red Line00 G0th

R Corner00 G0th

R Net Side00 G0th

36high danger7 G · 19.4%

18mid danger2 G · 11.1%

6long range0 G · 0.0%

Method: 79 shots on goal in 2025-26, placed by the NHL into the areas it names; each area is shaded by its share of his total, so this map is his distribution and not a comparison to any other player. The percentile column is the league's own for shots from that area, where it publishes one; nothing is converted, ranked or combined. Areas as the NHL names them; the drawing is to rink proportion with the net at the top.

Opponent atlas.

Career results by opponentlocal NHL AI Opponent Atlas

Opponents tracked32minimum five games

Most points vs.CBJ13 points in 26 GP

Best scoring pace vs.CBJ0.50 points per game

Career volume leaders

Career vs.CBJ13 points26 GP · 6 G · 7 A39 shots · 0 PP points

Career vs.CAR12 points44 GP · 6 G · 6 A59 shots · 2 PP points

Career vs.CHI11 points32 GP · 5 G · 6 A49 shots · 2 PP points

Career vs.MIN10 points20 GP · 3 G · 7 A33 shots · 0 PP points

Career vs.OTT9 points21 GP · 5 G · 4 A41 shots · 1 PP points

Career vs.NJD9 points23 GP · 5 G · 4 A39 shots · 0 PP points

Best points-per-game matchups

Pace vs.CBJ0.50 P/GP26 GP · 6 G · 7 A39 shots · 0 PP points

Pace vs.MIN0.50 P/GP20 GP · 3 G · 7 A33 shots · 0 PP points

Pace vs.SEA0.50 P/GP10 GP · 1 G · 4 A21 shots · 0 PP points

Pace vs.UTA0.44 P/GP9 GP · 2 G · 2 A7 shots · 0 PP points

Pace vs.OTT0.43 P/GP21 GP · 5 G · 4 A41 shots · 1 PP points

Pace vs.NJD0.39 P/GP23 GP · 5 G · 4 A39 shots · 0 PP points

Frozen from the local NHL AI Opponent Atlas. These are descriptive career splits through the source snapshot, not a projection of the next matchup and not evidence that the opponent caused the result.

Against the goaltenders.

Goaltenders faced, from play-by-playNHL play-by-play · 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 · 4,192 games · fetched 2026-08-18

Nick Cousins has faced 71 goaltenders in this dataset but none of them for the 20 shots on goal a published rate requires here. The counts exist; the rates would be noise, so they are not printed.

The source receipt.

Official basics plus named researchOfficial NHL API Web player landing, with local nhl api draft cache reuse

Career, season, game-log, bio, draft and award rows come from official NHL endpoints. Redraft is a separate hindsight model with its own snapshot clock. Pressure is a descriptive Gamelogs layer. Development Trails uses its own declared clock. Missing evidence stays unavailable rather than being drawn as zero.

Official endpoint: player landing · redraft 2026-07-10-redraft-v5.2 snapshot 2026-07-09.