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Andreas Englund
Los Angeles Kings Defense
Six foot four, 81 penalty minutes, and one goal in 162 career games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | OTT | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 10:38 |
| 2017-18 | OTT | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 11:21 |
| 2018-19 | OTT | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 13:20 |
| 2019-20 | OTT | 24 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 | 10:54 |
| 2022-23 | COL/CHI | 47 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0.0 | 12:07 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 82 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -3 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 2.4 | 13:13 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 162 | 1 | 16 | 17 | -16 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 1.1 | 12:28 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
All 82 games, 1 goal and 9 assists for 10 points, 81 penalty minutes, 13:13 a night and minus-3. He took 51.7 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,017 minutes, the 65th percentile, and his ice went 34-42 against an expectation of 40.87-38.22.
Seven goals of scoring that did not arrive and four more conceded than the chances called for. A third pairing that held its own in the run of play and lost the goals, which on this club was the whole season.
The Finesse Game
41 shots at a median of 51 feet with 75 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 2.4 per cent against a career 1.1.
16 career assists in 162 games and one career goal. There is nothing offensive to describe and there never has been. He puts the puck off the glass and goes back to work.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 200 and hits to hurt, and 81 penalty minutes in 82 games at thirteen minutes a night is one of the higher rates in the league for the ice he gets.
He will fight anybody, clears the crease, and is hard to move from in front of it. He blocks shots and kills penalties, and a good deal of the eighty-one minutes is retaliation.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2014 out of Stockholm, six seasons across four organisations, and 17 points in 162 games. Ottawa gave up on him at 24 and he did not play an NHL game for two seasons after that.
He is 28 and last season was the first full one of his career. Eighty-two games at thirteen minutes is exactly the job and he did it.
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.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He is 6-4 and 200 and hits to hurt, and 81 penalty minutes in 82 games at thirteen minutes a night is one of the higher rates in the league for the ice he gets.”
“He will fight anybody, clears the crease, and is hard to move from in front of it.”
“He will fight anybody, clears the crease, and is hard to move from in front of it.”
“He will fight anybody, clears the crease, and is hard to move from in front of it.”
“He blocks shots and kills penalties, and a good deal of the eighty-one minutes is retaliation.”
“He blocks shots and kills penalties, and a good deal of the eighty-one minutes is retaliation.”
“He blocks shots and kills penalties, and a good deal of the eighty-one minutes is retaliation.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,017 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.7%
- 66th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.6%
- 69th 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: 34 for, 42 against. Expected: 40.9 and 38.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 55 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 58 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, 2023-24 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 23.2 mph
- 97th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.43 a game
- Distance
- 1.75 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 96.0 mph
- 77th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 · 1017 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, 2023-24
- The club
- LAK took 54.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.7% — 2.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,017 minutes at five-on-five — 60th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Spence | 53.3% | 48.1% | 59.0% |
| Pierre-Luc Dubois | 50.4% | 52.5% | 54.7% |
| Alex Laferriere | 47.7% | 53.7% | 52.4% |
53.3% together, 48.1% for him apart and 59.0% for Spence apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Spence and did not follow 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
53 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.