Andreas Englund
Nashville Predators Defense
48 penalty minutes in 35 games, 80 per cent of his shots from beyond 40 feet, and a line that conceded 26 goals against an expectation of 13.9.
| 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 | LAK/NSH | 35 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -9 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5.9 | 13:16 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 197 | 2 | 18 | 20 | -25 | 188 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 1.9 | 12:36 |
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
35 games, 1 goal and 2 assists at 13:16 a night, on 17 shots at 5.88 per cent. 48 penalty minutes. Minus-9.
On-ice goals of 10-20 against an expected 12.63-13.53 — his line conceded almost exactly twice what the chances said it should have, across 400 minutes. That is a small sample and it is also a catastrophic one, and the goaltending behind him finished 28th in the league.
The Finesse Game
There is essentially none. 80 per cent of his shots came from beyond 40 feet at a median of 59, and 17 attempts in 35 games is close to a defenceman who does not shoot at all.
The first pass is safe and slow, and he will rim the puck rather than risk it. The skating is heavy and he is beaten wide by any winger with genuine speed, which is why the gap he plays is conservative to the point of handing over the blue line.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 200, and this is the entire game. He clears his crease, he finishes checks, and he fights.
48 penalty minutes in 35 games at thirteen minutes a night is one of the highest rates in this edition, and on a club that spent more time shorthanded than almost anybody it is a real and measurable cost.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2014 who needed seven years to reach a regular NHL job.
He is a seventh defenceman played when a club wants to be harder to face, and the arithmetic of that trade never once came out in his favour on a roster that could not afford the penalties.
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
- 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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
37% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 5th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He clears his crease, he finishes checks, and he fights.”
“he finishes checks”
“6-4 and 200, and this is the entire game. He clears his crease, he finishes checks, and he fights.”
“The first pass is safe and slow, and he will rim the puck rather than risk it.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 400 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.3%
- 37th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.3%
- 27th 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: 10 for, 20 against. Expected: 12.6 and 13.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 37 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 51 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 · 35 games
- Top speed
- 21.2 mph
- 30th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.23 a game
- Distance
- 1.82 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.7 mph
- 67th 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 · 290 minutes at five-on-five
- Marc Del Gaizooff the roster13%
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
- NSH took 49.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.3% — 0.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 400 minutes at five-on-five — 11th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Barron | 46.5% | 48.7% | 51.5% |
| Steven Stamkos | 27.6% | 54.6% | 48.7% |
| Luke Evangelista | 40.3% | 50.1% | 53.5% |
46.5% together, 48.7% for him apart and 51.5% for Barron apart. Barron 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
25 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 51 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 80% from beyond forty.