As he heads into his twelfth NHL season in 2022-23, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is Edmonton’s longest-serving player currently on the roster. Nugent-Hopkins posted strong goal differential results with Foegele and Ryan, but as indicated by their poor xGF%, it was likely unsustainable over a larger sample. Despite having a low PDO, they still finished with a positive goal differential as well. The team without Nugent-Hopkins, McDavid, and Draisaitl has been quite poor, and the bottom-six performs better with Nugent-Hopkins as opposed to without. Furthermore, his isolated impact on 5v5 goal differential (RAPM GF%) ranks 15th on the Oilers, while his impact on 5v5 expected goal differential (RAPM xGF%) ranks 16th.
