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Nico Sturm

Minnesota Wild

Nico Sturm

MINForwardJersey number #78

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2025-26 regular season

Games played
49
Goals
5
Assists
6
Points
11

How good

Among 980 forwards, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every forward who played in those seasons · Sample: 351 games

No production figure in the top quarter of his pool.

Production

Production: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points280.26
Goals310.11
Assists290.15
Shots on goal160.97
Power-play points30.00

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits671.41
Blocked shots410.49
Penalty minutes270.27

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

  • 2021-22: 0.01 over 74 games
  • 2022-23: 0.00 over 74 games
  • 2023-24: 0.00 over 63 games
  • 2024-25: 0.00 over 62 games
  • 2025-26: 0.00 over 49 games
  • 2026-27 projected: 0.00
Power-play points per game played, regular season. Filled dots are finished seasons; the dotted ring is the 2026-27 projection, the per-game rate the projections board uses. GP: games played.

What next

2026-27, projected

Full-season pace · his rate times the schedule

If he plays all 84 Minnesota Wild games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
21.5
Goals
9.1
Assists
12.4
Shots on goal
81.1
Power-play points
0.2
Hits
118.2
Blocked shots
40.8
Penalty minutes
22.9

Based on 351 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 Minnesota Wild 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

6 more attempts came from outside the offensive zone and are not in the grid.

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals against a league-average finisher, by season

In 2025-26 he scored 5 where a league-average finisher would score 6.6 from his chances: 1.6 fewer.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink5 G · 6.6 avg · −1.6 · 37 GP

  2. 2024-257 G · 6.3 avg · +0.7 · 46 GP

  3. 2023-245 G · 7.6 avg · −2.6 · 51 GP

  4. 2022-2314 G · 12.1 avg · +1.9 · 64 GP

  5. 2021-229 G · 9.2 avg · −0.2 · 59 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
2025-266.65−1.63762
2024-256.37+0.74687
2023-247.65−2.651104
2022-2312.114+1.964165
2021-229.29−0.259129

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
2025-264956110.223710:56
2024-256277140.235910:25
2023-246358130.216914:40
2022-23741412260.3511914:44
2021-2274911200.2710111:54

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

Even strength
4 goals, 6 assists, 10 points
Power play
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points
Shorthanded
1 goal, 0 assists, 1 point

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
May 13@ COL, playoff game202021012:54
May 11vs COL, playoff game31002108:25
May 9vs COL, playoff game10002008:45
May 5@ COL, playoff game000030012:43
May 3@ COL, playoff game200001011:15
Apr 30vs DAL, playoff game00104008:59
Apr 25vs DAL, playoff game201011011:20
Apr 22vs DAL, playoff game00003009:00
Apr 14vs ANA000000013:56
Apr 13@ STL200030211:13

PO = playoff game.

Markets · latest captured, not current

Apr 11 at Nashville Predators · 5:00 PM ET

The prices posted for a game already played. Open to see them.

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

Pre-game snapshotCaptured Oct 1, 8:21 PM ET

This game’s markets: the posted line, the model’s projection and its chance of the over
MarketLineModel projectionModel chance of over
Anytime goal0.50.110%