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Joel Nystrom

Carolina Hurricanes

Joel Nystrom

CARDefenceJersey number #64

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2025-26 regular season

Games played
38
Goals
1
Assists
9
Points
10

No 2026-27 games counted yet · tonight’s game is added the next morning

Playing now: WSH at CAR · live game stats

How good

Among 509 defencemen, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every defenceman who played in those seasons · Sample: 38 games · under 41 games

No production figure in the top quarter of his pool.

Production

Production: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points490.27
Goals150.03
Assists640.24
Shots on goal511.15
Power-play points210.00

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits20.31
Blocked shots10.59
Penalty minutes40.17

Further right means more, not better: hits, blocked shots and penalty minutes describe a role, not quality.

What adjusted per game means — not his recorded rate
Adjusted per game is the rate each percentile was computed from: his recorded rate, weighted toward recent games and pulled toward the league average by sample size, so a short career does not read as an elite one. It sits closer to average than the rate recorded, so a skater with no points in his games can still show points per game above zero.

How he got here

Each regular season

One regular season so far, 2025-26: 1 goal, 9 assists and 10 points in 38 games. The season-by-season chart starts with his second regular season.

What next

2026-27, projected

Full-season pace · his rate times the schedule

If he plays all 84 Carolina Hurricanes games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
22.9
Goals
2.8
Assists
20.1
Shots on goal
97.0
Power-play points
0.4
Hits
26.2
Blocked shots
49.6
Penalty minutes
14.6

Based on 38 games he has played, weighted toward recent ones. It assumes he plays all 84: injuries, scratches and trades are not modelled.

How the pace is worked out — the figure the projections board ranks on

Each figure is his per-game rate, weighted toward recent games, times the 84 games on the Carolina Hurricanes schedule. It is the pace the projections board ranks the league on, so the figure a reader clicked there is the one at the top of this card.

Shooting

Where he shoots, and how he finishes

Shot density · 2025-26 · open play, regular season

FewerMore attempts, up to this skater’s busiest cell

1 more attempt came from outside the offensive zone and is not in the grid.

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals against a league-average finisher, by season

In 2025-26 he scored 1 where a league-average finisher would score 1.4 from his chances: 0.4 fewer.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink1 G · 1.4 avg · −0.4 · 32 GP

  • Goals
  • A league-average finisher
What the ring counts — what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts

The shot model prices the chance of a goal on every unblocked attempt he took in open play during the regular season; shootouts and penalty shots are left out. Those chances are scaled so that, across the league, they add up to the goals actually scored that season, so the ring is what a league-average finisher would have scored from his attempts and each season is measured against its own average. The gap is his goals minus that; the table below lists the exact figures.

Finishing against the league average · open play, regular season

Finishing by season: goals against a league-average finisher on the same attempts
SeasonG
2025-261.41−0.43263

G vs avg: goals minus what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts (Exp G, the model’s expected goals scaled to that season’s league-wide scoring).

Detail

The record

Regular season

Regular season, by season
SeasonGAP
2025-263819100.264315:11

2025-26 regular season by strength · G-A-P

Even strength
1 goal, 9 assists, 10 points
Power play
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points
Shorthanded
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points

Penalty-shot goals are not counted here: each one leaves these a goal and a point below his regular-season totals.

Last 10 games

Last 10 games, newest first
DateOppGAHITBLKPIM
Apr 14@ NYI001011015:51
Jan 24@ OTT10000009:40
Jan 22vs CHI210000210:43
Jan 19vs BUF100000013:08
Jan 17@ NJD100000012:10
Jan 8vs ANA000000013:37
Jan 6vs DAL100000016:17
Jan 4@ NJD100001012:11
Jan 3vs COL000011012:56
Jan 1vs MTL001010014:59

Markets · tonight

Oct 2 vs Washington Capitals · 7:00 PM ET

The model has not beaten the Pinnacle closing line: shots-on-goal ROI −0.0709 [−0.0932, −0.0467] per unit over 7,171 bets in a 2025-26 backtest of 512 games. How this was measured

Lineup unconfirmed

Pre-game snapshotCaptured Oct 2, 6:52 PM ET· not updated during play

This game’s markets: the posted line and the model’s projection
MarketLineModel projection
Assists, shots on goalNo line posted.