Emil Bemstrom
Pittsburgh Penguins Center
Thirteen of his 34 career goals have come on the power play, and 30 penalty minutes in 228 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | CBJ | 56 | 10 | 10 | 20 | -10 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 97 | 10.3 | 12:16 |
| 2020-21 | CBJ | 20 | 3 | 2 | 5 | +2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 10.7 | 12:51 |
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 41 | 6 | 5 | 11 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 9.7 | 10:31 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 55 | 7 | 15 | 22 | -11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 7.4 | 12:07 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ/PIT | 56 | 8 | 8 | 16 | -5 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 9.6 | 11:09 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 228 | 34 | 40 | 74 | -25 | 30 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 365 | 9.3 | 11:41 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
56 games across Columbus and Pittsburgh, 8 goals and 8 assists for 16 points, 4 on the power play, 12 penalty minutes, 11:09 a night and minus-5, with 1 game-winner. He took 45.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 561 minutes, the 25th percentile, and his ice went 21-24 against an expectation of 19.42-23.02.
Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and one below at the other end. Four of his eight goals came on the power play, which is the pattern of his whole career rather than an accident of one season.
The Finesse Game
122 attempts at a median of 30 feet with 30 per cent of them from inside twenty and 30 per cent from beyond forty, 81 of those on goal, converted at 9.6 per cent against a career 9.32 across 365 shots.
Thirteen of his 34 career goals have come on the power play, from 228 games. The shot is the reason he keeps getting chances — a hard, quick release from the top of the circle that a unit can build a look around — and the even-strength game has never caught up to it.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 190 and took 12 penalty minutes.
Thirty career penalty minutes in 228 games is one of the lowest rates on this roster. He is not a physical player at either end and does not pretend otherwise; there is nothing in his game that requires him to win a puck by force.
The Intangibles
One hundred and seventeenth overall in 2017 by Columbus, five seasons, two organisations, and 74 points in 228 games.
A career minus-25. He is 25 and has been a fourth-round pick playing eleven minutes a night for five years, and the power-play shot is the one thing that has kept him in the league.
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
29.5% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“The shot is the reason he keeps getting chances — a hard, quick release from the top of the circle that a unit can build a look around — and the even-strength game has never caught up to it.”
“He is not a physical player at either end and does not pretend otherwise; there is nothing in his game that requires him to win a puck by force.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 561 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.8%
- 26th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.6%
- 42nd 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: 21 for, 24 against. Expected: 19.4 and 23.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 652 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, 2023-24 · 56 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 90th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.86 a game
- Distance
- 1.81 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 96.3 mph
- 95th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 with CBJ · 362 minutes at five-on-five
- Kent Johnson59%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- PIT took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.8% — 5.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 561 minutes at five-on-five — 22nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent Johnson | 46.2% | 45.5% | 46.7% |
| Cole Sillinger | 47.6% | 44.9% | 43.1% |
| Ivan Provorov | 41.5% | 47.2% | 45.8% |
46.2% together, 45.5% for him apart and 46.7% for Johnson 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
122 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.