Ulf Nilsson played 4 seasons (1979–1983) for New York Rangers. Career regular-season line: 57 goals and 112 assists (169 points) in 170 games. Shooting Star career, peaking in 1979.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
How often Ulf Nilsson led or placed top-ten on a NHL season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career boards only, within NHL
Cross-sport prominence: 60.0th percentile among NHL careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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Career arc
Shooting Star
One or two seasons that define the entire career — brief but incandescent. Peak 1979, 3 rated seasons.
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Gave the New York Rangers an entire corpus-attributed career — 5 seasons (1979–1983), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.