Armchair Scout

Albert Johansson

Detroit Red Wings Defense #20

Eighty-two games at nineteen percentile, in a role the club had nobody else for.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-26823811-1816011614.915:56
Career14361420-29460131095.516:07

Last Season

Three goals and eight assists in all 82 games — 11 points, minus-18, at 15:56 a night.

The Finesse Game

Thin. Ninety-nine unblocked attempts from a median of 53 feet, eight per cent inside twenty, three goals. Twenty points in 143 career games.

He makes the first pass quickly and does not carry. Eight assists in a full season says nothing is coming.

The Physical Game

Six foot even, 195, and light for the position. Sixteen penalty minutes in 82 games. He defends positionally and is outmuscled in front of his own net.

The Intangibles

Forty-six point one per cent of the expected goals, 19th percentile, and 46.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 25th, across 1,167 minutes.

That is a third-pair result, and he played sixteen minutes a night for a full season because Detroit’s blue line after Seider and Edvinsson is a set of players in exactly this range.

Two points in his last ten. He is 25, a second-round pick, and this is what he is. The club’s problem is not that he exists; it is that four of its six defencemen are him.