Nicolas Aube-Kubel

#16Right Wing

2025-26 regular season

SOG

0.0% SH

11:37

TOI/GP

RW · MIN · NHL id 8477979

Nicolas Aube-Kubel has played 6 games for the Minnesota Wild in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 2 assists (2 points) on 5 shots while averaging 11:37 a night (11:04 at even strength, 0:13 on the power play and 0:00 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 52% of his 5v5 minutes with Ryan Hartman and 36% with Brock Faber over the last 6 games, and the Wild have controlled 46% of shot attempts with Aube-Kubel on the ice (2-2 in goals, 39% offensive-zone starts). In the Wild's most recent game against ANA he was on L4 with Robby Fabbri and Ben Jones and off the power play; dropped to L4 (from L3) in the last game. He is shooting 0.0% this season against 9.0% across the 327 games in our data.

Right now

From the Apr 14 game vs ANA, detected from shift data

Line

Robby Fabbri Ben Jones

Power play

No PP unit

Penalty kill

No PK unit

Dropped to L4 (from L3) in the last gameLast 5: L3/PP2 · L1 · L3 · L4 · L4

Deployment timeline

2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
5-game average
Did not play
▲ promoted · ▼ demoted

2 games shown, 9:36 average. Line and PP unit come from where the player's ice time ranks among his teammates that night.

NHL EDGE tracking

2024-25 percentiles among skaters at his position

Source: NHL EDGE

Only 6 GP in 2025-26; showing 2024-25 NHL EDGE data.

Top speed67th6822.6 mph

Bursts 20+ mph41st4245

Hardest shot59th5987.0 mph

Offensive-zone time44th4441.7%

Distance skated25th2535.4 mi

High-danger SOG22nd225

Percentile among position peers│ tick = 3-season weighted

Season-level NHL EDGE puck and player tracking, refreshed nightly. The percentile is the league rank among skaters this season; the label at the right is the raw value.

Shot map

2025-26 · 13 attempts, 5 on goal, 0 goals

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Every attempt (goals, shots, misses and blocks), attacking toward the right (or the top on phones).

Luck

2025-26 · 6 GP · 2 points vs 2.4 expected

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Shooting−1.0 G

On-ice SH%−1.1 G

On-ice SV%+1.7 G

IPP+0.1 G

Points vs expected−0.4 P

: 0.0%
: 100.9
: 66.7%
G vs xG: 0 / 1.0

• Only 6 games: treat the meter as a hint.

Goals against expected goals

Actual goals
Expected
±1σ
Above expected
Below expected

Player analytics

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2025-26 regular season. Rank is among all qualified players; the bar is his percentile among forwards. Each stat links to its explainer.

Fantasy box score

Games played6
Goals0
Assists2
Points2
Power-play points0
Shorthanded points0
Shots on goal5
Hits7
Blocked shots5
Plus/minus+1
Penalty minutes6
Faceoffs won0

Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)

Transition, turnovers & faceoffs

Usage

Ice time per game11:37
Power-play time per game0:13
Power-play share12.5%
Ice-time share19.0%
Offensive-zone start %38.9%

Special teams & discipline

Net penalties drawn /60−1.72

Luck & trend

NHL EDGE tracking

Unranked rows are below the sample minimum (20 GP, 200 five-on-five minutes, 100 draws or 10 goalie games).

Beyond the box score

2024-25 regular season · 22 of 22 games through the sequence engine

Method Leaders

: −0.002
Season net: −0.01xG

Offensive TK/601.75 (6)

Offensive GV/600.88 (3)

Neutral TK/600.58 (2)

Neutral GV/601.75 (6)

Defensive TK/600.29 (1)

Defensive GV/600.88 (3)

5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.

Method Leaders

Per 60: 1.46
Attempts: 5
: 0.004

5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.

Method Leaders

Season: −0.57G
Per 60: −0.164
Drawn / taken: 6.5 / 9.5minors

Method Leaders

: 45.6%
: 54.4%
: 45.3%
Transition CF/60: 4.7
Turnovers won/60: 23.3
Turnovers lost/60: 20.4

5-on-5 while he is on the ice.

Method Leaders

More of his shots than the league
Fewer

18 shots on goal, 1 goals, all situations
Area	His share	League
R Point	17%	6%
L Circle	22%	13%
Center Point	0%	8%
L Point	0%	6%
R Corner	6%	0%
Outside L	0%	5%
Outside R	0%	4%

Role changes

Notable promotions, demotions and ice-time swings from Line Watch

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Moved up to L1 from L3Dec 21, 2023 alerts →
Played 6:18 more than his 5-game averageDec 21, 2023 alerts →
Moved up to L3 from L4Jan 7, 2020 alerts →

How the goals happened

7 goals since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation

Method

Goal anatomy
Game	Play	Entry	Passes	Shot mph	Notes
Dec 9, 2024 vs DET	Rebound	—	0	34.9	rebound
Feb 22, 2024 @ TBL	Forecheck turnover	—	0	37.7	—
Jan 18, 2024 vs STL	Rush	carry	1	29.7	—
Jan 7, 2024 vs LAK	Rush	carry	1	54.1	—
Dec 29, 2023 @ NYI	Rush	carry	0	12.7	—
Dec 9, 2023 vs NYR	Forecheck turnover	—	0	71.8	—
Nov 10, 2023 @ NJD	Rush	carry	0	66.6	—

* includes a royal-road (cross-slot) pass. Derived from NHL EDGE puck and player tracking.

Linemates

2025-26 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Aube-Kubel

Teammate	Pos	GP		Share	CF% together	GF% together	CF% Aube-Kubel apart	CF% mate apart
Ryan Hartman	RW	4	34:14	52%	53.0%	100% (1-0)	39.1% 12:56	20.6% 16:23
Brock Faber	D	4	24:01	36%	45.5%	100% (1-0)	54.9% 23:09	40.7% 68:28
Marcus Foligno	LW	2	20:03	30%	57.4%	— (0-0)	57.1% 4:53	36.4% 6:47
Quinn Hughes	D	3	19:20	29%	41.7%	50% (1-1)	64.7% 17:57	47.0% 58:10
Ben Jones	C	3	18:03	27%	32.4%	50% (1-1)	55.6% 15:26	32.1% 12:07
Robby Fabbri	C	2	17:40	27%	31.4%	50% (1-1)	100.0% 1:32	83.3% 3:46
Matt Kiersted	D	5	15:23	23%	46.7%	— (0-0)	47.6% 38:38	36.7% 55:24
Yakov Trenin	C	3	15:11	23%	28.6%	— (0-0)	56.9% 21:20	38.6% 21:09
Jared Spurgeon	D	4	13:45	21%	59.4%	— (0-0)	45.9% 33:25	38.2% 51:34
Daemon Hunt	D	4	13:31	20%	40.7%	— (0-0)	37.7% 27:55	45.7% 47:36
David Jiricek	D	4	12:29	19%	64.0%	— (0-0)	45.7% 34:41	39.4% 34:20
Jake Middleton	D	2	9:35	14%	22.2%	50% (1-1)	44.4% 9:37	63.4% 22:09
Jeff Petry	D	2	8:57	13%	35.3%	50% (1-1)	31.6% 10:15	60.0% 21:16
Viking Gustafsson-Nyberg	D	2	5:49	9%	36.4%	— (0-0)	32.0% 13:23	44.7% 26:23

Linemate and opposition quality

2024-25 · 5v5 · 206 min on ice · ranked against 495 forwards · last season, until this season has enough games to rank

46.5%

teammates' average xGF%

11th percentile · higher = stronger linemates

49.5%

opponents' average ice-time share

15th percentile · higher = faces more top-line minutes

Sheltered minutes: mostly faces weaker opposition.

QoT averages the season xGF% of Aube-Kubel's 5v5 teammates; QoC averages how much of their team's ice time Aube-Kubel's opponents get, so a high QoC means facing top lines. Both are weighted by time shared on the ice, lean on last season for small samples, and are ranked within forwards or defence.

Game log

6 games in 2025-26, newest first

Season

Date	Opp	Result	A	P	+/-		PIM	HIT	BLK			EV	PP	PK
Apr 14	vs ANA	W 3-2	1	1	+1	1	0	2	1	—	11:58	10:10	—	—
Apr 13	@ STL	L 3-6	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	—	9:12	9:02	—	—
Dec 18	@ CBJ	W 5-2	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0%	10:39	10:39	—	—
Dec 16	vs WSH	W 5-0	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	0%	14:17	14:17	—	—
Dec 14	vs BOS	W 6-2	1	1	+1	0	4	1	1	0%	13:40	12:21	1:13	—
Dec 13	vs OTT	W 3-2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	—	9:56	9:53	0:03	—

Season splits by strength

2025-26 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data

Strength	GP		TOI/GP						SA	GF	GA	GF%
All situations	6	69:42	11:37	68	84	44.7%	45.5%	35	43	3	2	60%	3.8	3.2	37%
Even strength	6	66:22	11:04	65	77	45.8%	46.6%	34	40	2	2	50%	3.6	2.8	39%
5v5	6	66:22	11:04	65	77	45.8%	46.6%	34	40	2	2	50%	3.6	2.8	39%
Power play	2	1:16	0:38	2	0	100.0%	100.0%	0	0	0	0	—	0.1	0.0	—

Career by season

Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM			HIT	BLK	TOI/GP
2025-26	MIN	6	0	2	2	+1	6	5	0.0%	7	5	11:37
2024-25	NYR, BUF	22	1	1	2	-5	19	18	5.6%	40	3	9:25
2023-24Playoffs	WSH	3	0	0	0	-1	2	0	—	5	2	9:22
2023-24	WSH	60	6	10	16	+4	23	58	10.3%	159	26	12:12
2022-23	WSH, TOR	53	4	8	12	+1	50	67	6.0%	117	9	11:21
2021-22Playoffs	COL	14	0	0	0	+2	4	16	0.0%	49	6	10:22
2021-22	COL, PHI	74	11	12	23	+11	47	87	12.6%	140	18	9:49
2020-21	PHI	50	3	9	12	-3	44	53	5.7%	120	16	11:10
2019-20	PHI	36	7	8	15	+1	19	48	14.6%	82	16	11:17
2018-19	PHI	9	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0.0%	14	0	5:35