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Carl Grundstrom
Philadelphia Flyers Right Wing
Three goals in 56 games on the worst club in the league, and a signing for the fourth line.
| 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 | SJS | 56 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -21 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 3.4 | 9:36 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 292 | 43 | 33 | 76 | -35 | 108 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 464 | 9.3 | 11:10 |
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 56 games for San Jose — 9 points at 9:36 a night, minus-21, with 24 penalty minutes.
San Jose finished 32nd in goals for and 32nd in goals against, so the minus-21 from a fourth-line winger is close to unreadable. What the season does say is that 88 shots produced 3 goals, which is a 3.4 per cent conversion and the worst of his career by a distance.
The Finesse Game
88 attempts and 3 goals. He has scored 12, 9, 8 and 6 in previous seasons, so the shot has never been much and last year it was nothing.
There is no playmaking to speak of — 6 assists in 56 games — and there never has been. He is a forechecker who occasionally converts.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 200 and thickly built. He hits, he goes to the net, and he is difficult to remove from a puck along the wall.
24 penalty minutes in 56 games. He is honest rather than nasty; the physicality is about winning possession rather than about intimidating anybody.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick of Toronto in 2016 who was traded to Los Angeles before he had played a game there, and 292 NHL games later he has 76 points.
He is 27 and Philadelphia signed him in the summer. The job is the fourth line and the American League, and 3 goals in 56 games is not an argument for the first of those.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
31.6% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He hits, he goes to the net, and he is difficult to remove from a puck along the wall.”
“He hits, he goes to the net, and he is difficult to remove from a puck along the wall.”
“He is honest rather than nasty; the physicality is about winning possession rather than about intimidating anybody.”
“There is no playmaking to speak of — 6 assists in 56 games — and there never has been.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 482 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.3%
- 37th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.6%
- 39th 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: 11 for, 31 against. Expected: 17.0 and 18.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 16 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 — 67 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 · 56 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 89th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.77 a game
- Distance
- 1.62 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.1 mph
- 73rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 with SJS · 482 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
- SJS took 44.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.3% — 4.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 482 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ty Dellandrea | 40.4% | 55.7% | 37.3% |
| Mario Ferraro | 56.4% | 43.4% | 45.2% |
| Nico Sturm | 47.0% | 49.0% | 45.9% |
40.4% together, 55.7% for him apart and 37.3% for Dellandrea apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Dellandrea behind.
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
114 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 4 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 32% from beyond forty.