Elias Lindholm

A 650 point career, and the worst underlying season of any regular forward here.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2013-14	CAR	58	9	12	21	-14	4	4	0	2	70	12.9	14:32
2014-15	CAR	81	17	22	39	-23	14	4	0	4	170	10.0	16:25
2015-16	CAR	82	11	28	39	-23	24	2	0	3	176	6.3	18:07
2016-17	CAR	72	11	34	45	-2	16	2	1	0	151	7.3	18:11
2017-18	CAR	81	16	28	44	-8	18	6	0	4	153	10.5	17:54
2018-19	CGY	81	27	51	78	+30	20	9	1	5	182	14.8	20:02
2019-20	CGY	70	29	25	54	-8	22	8	0	7	169	17.2	19:43
2020-21	CGY	56	19	28	47	+10	22	6	0	4	130	14.6	19:54
2021-22	CGY	82	42	40	82	+61	22	10	1	9	235	17.9	19:57
2022-23	CGY	80	22	42	64	+6	14	10	1	2	186	11.8	18:39
2023-24	CGY/VAN	75	15	29	44	-14	25	6	1	4	173	8.7	19:42
2024-25	BOS	82	17	30	47	-4	14	2	1	3	152	11.2	18:05
2025-26	BOS	69	17	31	48	-7	38	7	0	3	114	14.9	17:53
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	969	252	400	652	+4	253	76	6	50	2061	12.2	18:26

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

17 goals and 31 assists in 69 games, minus-7, at 17:53 a night. 7 power-play goals. His 969th career game came somewhere in the middle of it.

The Finesse Game

The skill is still visible in flashes. He is a two-way centre who reads a play properly, wins faceoffs, and gets to the right ice: 45 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 22, which is a forward doing his shooting where shooting works.

17 goals out of it. The hands have not gone; the pace has.

The Physical Game

6-1, 200, and he plays a heavy enough game on the forecheck. 38 penalty minutes. He is not soft and never was, but he no longer wins the races that let a two-way centre dictate.

The Intangibles

The report and the arithmetic are a long way apart on him and the arithmetic is unkind. 46 per cent of the expected goals while he was on the ice — 14th percentile in the league, the lowest of any Boston forward with a regular shift. The shot attempts were 46.8 per cent, 24th percentile. The goals went 40-45 against.

Some of that is a poor team. He was not the only Bruin under water. He was the furthest under.

He is 31 with a fifth-overall pedigree and 2 very good seasons in Calgary behind him, and 8 points in his last 10 games is a reminder that the ability is still in there. But this is now 2 years of results pointing the same direction, and a player is eventually what his results say.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 914 minutes

Expected goals: 45.6%; 19th pct
Shot attempts: 46.8%; 25th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 45 against. Expected: 36.0 and 43.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

61st

Numbers

19th

The report ranks him 42 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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, 2025-26 · 69 games

Top speed: 21.0 mph; 9th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.39 a game
Distance: 2.70 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.3 mph; 72nd pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 5 goals, 3 assists, 24 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 914 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, 2025-26

The club: BOS took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.6% — 2.4 below the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 914 minutes at five-on-five — 50th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Morgan Geekie	45.9%	44.8%	46.9%
David Pastrnak	46.2%	44.4%	50.3%
Charlie McAvoy	45.5%	45.6%	50.0%

45.9% together, 44.8% for him apart and 46.9% for Geekie apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.

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

189 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.