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Albert Johansson
Detroit Red Wings Defense
61 games at 24, a 49.5 per cent chance share, and a defenceman who arrived without anybody noticing.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | DET | 61 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 48 | 6.3 | 16:22 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 61 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 48 | 6.3 | 16:22 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
3 goals and 6 assists in 61 games for 9 points, minus-11, on 16:22 a night in his first NHL season.
49.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 46th percentile — the second-best figure on the blue line — over 899 minutes. His on-ice goals were 32-21 against an expected 33-34, which is 13 goals of goaltending in his favour.
The Finesse Game
Quiet and correct. The skating is good and the first pass is quick, and he escapes a forecheck without needing to be rescued.
48 shots in 61 games and 9 points is a low offensive return and there is nothing to project. He does not stall a breakout, which is the whole of the third-pair job.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 195, and light. He does not clear a net front and defends with position and stick.
30 penalty minutes over 61 games is a moderate rate for a rookie.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, four seasons in Sweden, two in the American League, and an NHL job at 24 with better underlying numbers than most of the men ahead of him.
The projection is a third-pair defenceman who plays 70 games. On a blue line with Seider and Edvinsson at the top and Chiarot at 34, that is a genuinely useful thing to have found for nothing.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 899 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.5%
- 46th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.1%
- 43rd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 21 against. Expected: 33.5 and 34.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 20 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 899 minutes at five-on-five
- Justin Hollnow STL14%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.5% — 1.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 899 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Edvinsson | 48.4% | 51.5% | 49.3% |
| Alex DeBrincat | 58.4% | 45.4% | 49.2% |
| Marco Kasper | 50.0% | 49.3% | 53.4% |
48.4% together, 51.5% for him apart and 49.3% for Edvinsson apart. He was better away from Edvinsson, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Edvinsson.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
72 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.