Elmer Soderblom
Pittsburgh Penguins Left Wing
6-8, 252 pounds, and the second-heaviest man in this book.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | DET | 21 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 16.7 | 12:04 |
| 2024-25 | DET | 26 | 4 | 7 | 11 | +2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 10.5 | 13:22 |
| 2025-26 | DET/PIT | 59 | 7 | 6 | 13 | -1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 69 | 10.1 | 11:07 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 106 | 16 | 16 | 32 | +1 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 137 | 11.7 | 11:51 |
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
7 goals and 6 assists in 59 games — 13 points, minus-1, at 11:07 a night with 23 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
Better hands than the frame suggests. 101 unblocked attempts, 7 goals, median 24 feet with 42 per cent from inside 20.
32 points in 106 career games. He is not going to create anything, but he does not fumble the puck the way men his size usually do.
The Physical Game
6-8 and 252 pounds, the tallest man in this edition alongside Rempe and 16 pounds lighter than him. He is genuinely enormous and he screens goaltenders simply by existing.
23 penalty minutes in 59 games is low, and it is the criticism every large forward in this book gets: he occupies space rather than imposing on it.
The skating is the ceiling and it is a hard one.
The Intangibles
50.4 per cent of the expected goals, 58th percentile, in 638 minutes on a club that finished 4th at generating offence.
8 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals — the best run of his career.
He is 25, a 159th overall pick, and the sort of player a club keeps because there is no other way to buy that much net-front space. Whether he can skate well enough to keep the job is the whole question.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 638 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.4%
- 58th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.6%
- 32nd 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: 20 for, 21 against. Expected: 25.2 and 24.9.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 47 points above where the report does. 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 — 64 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 · 59 games
- Top speed
- 22.2 mph
- 46th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.53 a game
- Distance
- 1.79 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.7 mph
- 91st 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 83.6
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
8
points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 4 assists, 13 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with DET · 409 minutes at five-on-five
- Marco Kasper28%
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
- PIT took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.4% — 1.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 638 minutes at five-on-five — 26th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Rasmussen | 54.1% | 48.7% | 41.3% |
| Moritz Seider | 68.2% | 44.8% | 54.4% |
| Ben Chiarot | 42.0% | 52.9% | 43.2% |
54.1% together, 48.7% for him apart and 41.3% for Rasmussen apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
101 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.