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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.
46.8 per cent at five-on-five, the 25th percentile — the second-best figure on the blue line — over 899 minutes. His on-ice goals were 26-34 against an expected 32-36, which is six goals of scoring that did not arrive and two 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.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“The skating is good and the first pass is quick, and he escapes a forecheck without needing to be rescued.”
“He does not clear a net front”
“defends with position and stick”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 899 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.8%
- 25th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.8%
- 32nd 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: 26 for, 34 against. Expected: 31.6 and 35.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 0 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 61 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 52nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.25 a game
- Distance
- 2.30 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 90.3 mph
- 45th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 899 minutes at five-on-five
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 46.8% — 1.4 below 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 | 46.8% | 46.8% | 50.1% |
| Alex DeBrincat | 54.7% | 43.4% | 50.0% |
| Marco Kasper | 50.3% | 45.6% | 53.5% |
46.8% together, 46.8% for him apart and 50.1% for Edvinsson apart. Edvinsson was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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.