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Anton Lundell
Florida Panthers Center
The 3rd-most takeaways and the 3rd-most ground covered of the qualified forwards — at twenty years old.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | FLA | 65 | 18 | 26 | 44 | +33 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 125 | 14.4 | 15:44 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 65 | 18 | 26 | 44 | +33 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 125 | 14.4 | 15:44 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
18 goals and 26 assists in 65 games — 44 points and a plus-33 in his first NHL season, at 15:44 a night, the 51st percentile among forwards — with 18 penalty minutes. 2:22 a night short-handed is the 98th percentile among forwards, at twenty years old.
56.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 825 minutes, the 88th percentile.
The Finesse Game
3.46 takeaways per 60 is the 3rd-most of the 393 qualified forwards. Only Auston Matthews and Jimmy Vesey won the puck back more often, and neither of them was twenty. This is the single most remarkable number in the Florida chapter.
2.62 even-strength points per 60 is the 85th percentile with only 9 per cent of his points on the power play — forty of his forty-four points came at five-on-five and short-handed.
7.33 shots per 60 is the 51st percentile and eighteen goals on 125 is 14.4 per cent, the 77th. 48 per cent from the slot at a median of 25 feet — ordinary locations at ordinary volume.
81.8 mph is the 17th-softest recorded shot of the 365 qualified forwards. The shot is not the tool.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 196. 1.53 hits per 60 is the 11th percentile among forwards — almost no contact at all — and 3.28 blocks per 60 is the 96th percentile, which for a forward is elite and is the shape of a penalty-killer.
10.77 miles per 60 is the 3rd-most of the 365 forwards the tracking covers, against a 22.6 mph top speed at the 58th percentile and 3.6 bursts over 20 mph per 60 at the 28th. He covers more ground than all but two forwards in the league and he never sprints, which is the measured description of a centre who is always in the right place a half-second early.
0.53 penalties taken per 60 is the 34th percentile — eighteen minutes in sixty-five games.
The Intangibles
Twelfth overall in 2020, and this was the whole of his NHL record: 65 games, 44 points, a plus-33 and two minutes and twenty-two seconds a night short-handed.
With Sam Reinhart he took 63.8 per cent of the chances over 694 attempts and 49.3 without him, and with Mason Marchment 61.3 over 521. Both of those figures come with the same warning: this is the best club in the league and a 20-year-old third-line centre on it will look better than he is.
What will not wash out is the takeaway rate and the blocked shots. Those are the numbers a 20-year-old is not supposed to have, and they are the reason a Presidents’ Trophy club was killing penalties with a twenty-year-old.
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
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.
“Only Auston Matthews and Jimmy Vesey won the puck back more often, and neither of them was twenty.”
“He covers more ground than all but two forwards in the league and he never sprints”
“which for a forward is elite and is the shape of a penalty-killer”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 825 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.2%
- 90th pct
- Shot attempts
- 55.8%
- 91st 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: 56 for, 31 against. Expected: 39.7 and 31.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 27 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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, 2021-22 · 65 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 71st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.94 a game
- Distance
- 2.83 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 81.8 mph
- 27th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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
2021-22 · 825 minutes at five-on-five
- Sam Reinhart46%
- Maxim Maminoff the roster21%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- FLA took 56.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.2% — 0.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 825 minutes at five-on-five — 43rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Reinhart | 63.8% | 49.3% | 57.7% |
| Mason Marchment | 61.3% | 53.1% | 66.7% |
| MacKenzie Weegar | 57.5% | 55.4% | 58.1% |
63.8% together, 49.3% for him apart and 57.7% for Reinhart apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
171 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 18 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.