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Elias Lindholm
Boston Bruins Center
47 points on the second year of a long contract, and an on-ice goal differential of minus-18.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 900 | 235 | 369 | 604 | +11 | 215 | 69 | 6 | 47 | 1947 | 12.1 | 18:28 |
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
17 goals and 30 assists in 82 games for 47 points, minus-4, on 18:05 a night.
48.7 per cent at five-on-five, the 38th percentile. His on-ice goals were 29-47 against an expected 37-39, which is the worst goal differential of any forward on the roster relative to the chances — 18 goals in the wrong direction on a chance share that was merely below average.
The Finesse Game
A two-way centre whose offensive game has always depended on his linemates and no longer has any. 50 per cent of his shots come from inside 20 feet, which is a good location profile, and 17 goals on 152 shots is an ordinary return from it.
The passing and the reads are still good. What has gone since the 82-point season is the ability to drive a line by himself, and there is a real question whether he ever had it or simply spent three years next to two of the best wingers in the league.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 200, and honest rather than heavy. He is willing on the wall, takes a defensive-zone draw against anybody, and does not run people.
14 penalty minutes across a full season is a disciplined player in a heavy role. 82 games, and he has been durable throughout his career.
The Intangibles
Signed to be the second-line centre that made Pastrnak’s line easier and has instead been the first-line centre on a club with nothing to put around him.
At 30 with the bulk of the contract still to run, this is now a bet on environment. He is a genuinely good middle-six centre. He is being paid to be more than that, and the club needs to build a team where he does not have to be.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 984 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.7%
- 38th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.5%
- 37th 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: 29 for, 47 against. Expected: 37.4 and 39.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 33 points above where the numbers do. 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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
2024-25 · 984 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
- BOS took 48.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.7% — 0.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 984 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brad Marchand | 49.9% | 46.9% | 49.5% |
| Nikita Zadorov | 46.8% | 50.0% | 50.3% |
| Charlie Coyle | 45.6% | 50.1% | 50.9% |
49.9% together, 46.9% for him apart and 49.5% for Marchand apart. He was worse away from Marchand, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Marchand did.
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
227 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.