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Carl Grundstrom
San Jose Sharks Right Wing
The best chance share on this roster, earned in Los Angeles at eleven minutes a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | LAK | 15 | 5 | 1 | 6 | -4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 19.2 | 14:58 |
| 2019-20 | LAK | 13 | 0 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.0 | 12:46 |
| 2020-21 | LAK | 47 | 6 | 5 | 11 | -10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 66 | 9.1 | 12:28 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 54 | 9 | 6 | 15 | +4 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 10.8 | 10:53 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 57 | 12 | 7 | 19 | -4 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 90 | 13.3 | 10:45 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 50 | 8 | 4 | 12 | -2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 95 | 8.4 | 10:56 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 236 | 40 | 27 | 67 | -14 | 84 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 376 | 10.6 | 11:32 |
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
50 games with Los Angeles, 8 goals and 4 assists for 12 points, 1 on the power play, 1 shorthanded, 12 penalty minutes, 10:56 a night and minus-2, with 1 game-winner. He took 53.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 524 minutes — the 82nd percentile and the best chance share of anybody on this roster — and his ice went 16-21 against an expectation of 23.44-20.33.
Seven goals of finishing below what the chances were worth, which on 524 minutes is a very large shortfall. The 53.5 per cent came on a club that finished third in the league at suppressing chances.
The Finesse Game
130 attempts at a median of 30 feet with 35 per cent of them from inside twenty, 92 of those on goal, converted at 8.4 per cent against a career 10.64 across 376 shots.
Forty career goals in 236 games, and 8 of them game-winners. He is a straightforward shooter who goes to the net and gets there in a hurry; two power-play goals in six seasons says nobody has ever thought of him as a scorer.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 200 and took 12 penalty minutes.
Eighty-four career penalty minutes in 236 games. He is compact and heavy on his feet and finishes checks on the forecheck without taking many penalties for it, which is the reason he keeps playing eleven minutes a night for good clubs.
The Intangibles
Fifty-seventh overall in 2016 by Toronto, six seasons, two organisations, and 67 points in 236 games.
A career minus-14 and one shorthanded goal. He was drafted by a club he never played for and has spent six seasons on the fourth line in Los Angeles; San Jose is the first club that will need more from him.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 524 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.5%
- 80th pct
- Shot attempts
- 55.2%
- 90th 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: 16 for, 21 against. Expected: 23.4 and 20.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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
2023-24 with LAK · 524 minutes at five-on-five
- Trevor Lewis56%
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 53.5% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 524 minutes at five-on-five — 19th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trevor Lewis | 52.0% | 55.2% | 51.7% |
| Blake Lizotte | 55.8% | 52.2% | 49.2% |
| Matt Roy | 58.6% | 50.9% | 54.8% |
52.0% together, 55.2% for him apart and 51.7% for Lewis apart. He was better away from Lewis, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Lewis.
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
130 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.