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Elias Salomonsson
Winnipeg Jets Defense #57
A second-round Swedish defenceman who got 32 games as a rookie and did not look out of place.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | WPG | 32 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 2.7 | 17:58 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 32 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 2.7 | 17:58 |
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
1 goal and 5 points in 32 games, minus-6, on 18 minutes a night. 18 minutes for a 21-year-old defenceman in his first NHL season is a genuine vote of confidence.
The Finesse Game
He moves the puck cleanly and skates well enough to escape a forecheck, which are the 2 requirements. 37 shots in 32 games is a reasonable rate and suggests a defenceman who is willing to join the play.
There is not enough evidence for more than that. What can be said is that he was given real minutes and the club did not have to hide him.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 172, which is light for the position, and it is the obvious thing to watch. He can be moved off pucks in front of his own net and will need weight before he can handle a top-4 role.
The Intangibles
Developed at home in Sweden rather than rushed to North America, which has become the sensible route and shows in how ready he looked.
22 this season, on a defence where the third pairing is unsettled. That is an opening, and the sample so far says he is worth giving it to.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 521 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.5%
- 59th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.2%
- 76th 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: 15 for, 18 against. Expected: 21.5 and 21.1.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 10 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
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 — 72 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 · 32 games
- Top speed
- 21.8 mph
- 56th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.53 a game
- Distance
- 2.61 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.2 mph
- 43rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 88.9
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
3
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 3 assists, 11 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 521 minutes at five-on-five
- Logan Stanleyoff the roster8%
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
- WPG took 47.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.5% — 3.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 521 minutes at five-on-five — 19th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dylan Samberg | 50.0% | 51.2% | 50.1% |
| Mark Scheifele | 56.3% | 47.2% | 48.6% |
| Kyle Connor | 56.5% | 47.5% | 48.5% |
50.0% together, 51.2% for him apart and 50.1% for Samberg 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
63 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 40 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.