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Bourque named two things when he was asked about the trade. Nashville has put the first one in writing. The second belongs to a power play that brings back 78 percent of the goals it scored last season.
Final 2025-26 regular season · source NHL, data as of 2026-09-28. Goals per game exclude shootout deciders. Standings · All 32 teams
Computed by Play-Pause Hockey from the league play-by-play, 2025-26, 1312 regular-season games. Where a rank is shown it is among the 32 clubs, 1st = best. PDO and zone starts carry none: a high PDO means hot rather than good, and zone starts are how a club is deployed rather than how well it plays. All 32 teams
| Player | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Filip Forsberg | 82 | 40 | 35 | 75 |
 Ryan O'Reilly | 81 | 25 | 49 | 74 |
 Steven Stamkos | 82 | 42 | 24 | 66 |
 Luke Evangelista | 81 | 12 | 44 | 56 |
 Roman Josi | 68 | 13 | 42 | 55 |
 Erik Haula | 81 | 14 | 24 | 38 |
 Jonathan Marchessault | 62 | 12 | 19 | 31 |
 Matthew Wood | 71 | 17 | 13 | 30 |
 Brady Skjei | 82 | 3 | 23 | 26 |
 Fedor Svechkov | 70 | 4 | 13 | 17 |
 Adam Wilsby | 58 | 1 | 15 | 16 |
 Tyson Jost | 69 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
 Nicolas Hague | 62 | 3 | 12 | 15 |
 Nick Perbix | 79 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
 Ryan Ufko | 18 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
 Justin Barron | 52 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
 Reid Schaefer | 47 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
 Ozzy Wiesblatt | 40 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
 Zachary L'Heureux | 25 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
 Joakim Kemell | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
 Brady Martin | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Cole O'Hara | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Andreas Englund | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Jordan Oesterle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Kevin Gravel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Goalie | GP | W | L | SV% | GAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Juuse Saros | 59 | 28 | 22 | .894 | 3.16 |
 Justus Annunen | 28 | 10 | 12 | .907 | 2.68 |
Puck and player tracking, 2025-26 regular season · source NHL EDGE. Ranks are among the 32 clubs, 1st = best; defensive-zone time ranks the least time first. All 32 teams
Ten years ago Nashville moved its captain without asking him. That is the part of the Weber trade the new Josi pitch quietly borrows and cannot have. Weber's contract never carried a no-movement clause at all. Josi's does, to the end of the deal.
Everyone graded the Bourque contract on its cap hit and called it a bargain. Grade it on its term and a different deal shows up: a six-year bet on a player with exactly one good NHL season.
