Gabriel Landeskog

A captain who missed 3 full seasons to a knee, came back, and was plus-29.

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

2011-12	COL	82	22	30	52	+20	51	6	0	5	270	8.2	18:37
2012-13	COL	36	9	8	17	-4	22	0	3	1	109	8.3	19:20
2013-14	COL	81	26	39	65	+21	71	5	0	4	222	11.7	18:41
2014-15	COL	82	23	36	59	-2	79	8	0	2	214	10.8	18:30
2015-16	COL	75	20	33	53	-5	69	4	1	2	169	11.8	18:56
2016-17	COL	72	18	15	33	-25	62	5	1	2	169	10.7	18:47
2017-18	COL	78	25	37	62	+16	37	8	0	1	183	13.7	20:09
2018-19	COL	73	34	41	75	+17	51	10	0	9	243	14.0	21:09
2019-20	COL	54	21	23	44	-2	47	6	0	4	145	14.5	20:02
2020-21	COL	54	20	32	52	+14	34	9	0	8	155	12.9	19:57
2021-22	COL	51	30	29	59	+27	78	7	0	5	150	20.0	20:19
2025-26	COL	60	14	21	35	+29	47	2	0	2	132	10.6	16:25
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	798	262	344	606	+106	648	70	5	45	2161	12.1	19:12

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

14 goals and 35 points in 60 games, plus-29, on 16 and a half minutes a night. For a player who had not played an NHL season in 3 years before this one, the plus-29 is the number that matters far more than the totals.

The Finesse Game

The hands still work around the net and the shot is decent from the slot. He is not the 30-goal scorer he was before the injury, and the ice time reflects a club managing him carefully.

What has survived intact is the reading of the game. He supports the puck properly, is always in a position to receive, and does not turn it over in the neutral zone.

The skating is the obvious casualty. He was never fast and the knee has not helped.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 215, and he still plays a heavy game — forechecks, finishes checks, goes to the net. 47 penalty minutes in 60 games is the mark of a player who has not decided to protect himself.

That is remarkable given what the knee took, and it is also the thing that will determine how long this second career lasts.

The Intangibles

3 seasons lost, a cartilage transplant, and a return that almost nobody in the sport expected. He captained this club to a Cup and came back to a team that had moved on without him.

At 33, with that history, every projection carries a medical asterisk. 60 games was a triumph; 80 would be a different kind of story.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 808 minutes

Expected goals: 56.3%; 93rd pct
Shot attempts: 55.6%; 92nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 47 for, 26 against. Expected: 42.6 and 33.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

95th

Numbers

93rd

The two rank him within 2 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 — 82 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 · 60 games

Top speed: 22.2 mph; 47th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.08 a game
Distance: 2.61 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.1 mph; 90th 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 — 4 goals, 1 assists, 23 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 808 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: COL took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.3% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: 808 minutes at five-on-five — 39th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Brock Nelson	56.4%	56.2%	58.7%
Nathan MacKinnon	58.5%	54.6%	59.2%
Devon Toews	58.0%	55.3%	59.4%

56.4% together, 56.2% for him apart and 58.7% for Nelson 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

204 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.