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Hampus Lindholm
Boston Bruins Defense
A plus-49 and fifty-three points at twenty-nine, in a first full season in Boston.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | ANA | 78 | 6 | 24 | 30 | +29 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 116 | 5.2 | 19:26 |
| 2014-15 | ANA | 78 | 7 | 27 | 34 | +25 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 107 | 6.5 | 21:46 |
| 2015-16 | ANA | 80 | 10 | 18 | 28 | +7 | 40 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 149 | 6.7 | 22:00 |
| 2016-17 | ANA | 66 | 6 | 14 | 20 | +13 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 94 | 6.4 | 22:27 |
| 2017-18 | ANA | 69 | 13 | 18 | 31 | +16 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 131 | 9.9 | 22:44 |
| 2018-19 | ANA | 76 | 6 | 22 | 28 | -5 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 4.8 | 24:00 |
| 2019-20 | ANA | 56 | 2 | 21 | 23 | -10 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 109 | 1.8 | 23:04 |
| 2020-21 | ANA | 18 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6.9 | 22:02 |
| 2021-22 | ANA/BOS | 71 | 5 | 22 | 27 | +10 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 142 | 3.5 | 22:30 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 80 | 10 | 43 | 53 | +49 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 158 | 6.3 | 23:11 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 672 | 67 | 213 | 280 | +133 | 374 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 1160 | 5.8 | 22:18 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
10 goals and 43 assists in 80 games — 53 points at 23:11 a night, plus-49, on 158 shots and 56 penalty minutes.
Fifty-three points and a plus-49, both career highs by a distance, at twenty-nine. 56 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,424 minutes, the 91st percentile — the most minutes of any Bruin. His ice went 76-36 against an expectation of 65.53-51.47.
That is fifteen fewer goals conceded than the chances predicted, and it is worth saying plainly what that was: Linus Ullmark.
The Finesse Game
158 attempts at a median of 47 feet, 61 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 6.33 per cent off a 94.8 mph shot.
213 career assists and 43 in a season says the puck-moving is the skill. He is calm with a forechecker on him, the first pass is early, and he will skate it out himself when the pass is not there — 3.16 miles a game at the 88th percentile is a defenceman carrying rather than chipping.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 217 and he uses the size to close space rather than to punish — 374 penalty minutes in 672 games is moderate for a man playing 23 minutes against top lines.
The skating is very good for the frame at 22.8 mph, the 78th percentile. He defends the rush by keeping his feet moving and taking away the ice rather than by stepping up, which is the modern way and is why the pairing does not get beaten wide.
The Intangibles
Sixth overall in 2012 to Anaheim, ten seasons, and he arrived here at the 2022 deadline for a first-round pick, two seconds and two players — a price that looked heavy and now does not.
He is 29 and the club’s most important defenceman by minutes. The caution is the one attached to everybody on this roster: a plus-49 built partly on a .938 goaltender is not a repeatable number, and the first honest test of this defence corps is what it looks like when the goaltending is merely very good.
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
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.
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He is calm with a forechecker on him, the first pass is early, and he will skate it out himself when the pass is not there”
“He defends the rush by keeping his feet moving and taking away the ice rather than by stepping up”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 1,424 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56%
- 91st pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.4%
- 81st 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: 76 for, 36 against. Expected: 65.5 and 51.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 58 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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
2022-23 · 1424 minutes at five-on-five
- Connor Cliftonnow BUF19%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- BOS took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.0% — 2.5 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,424 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Carlo | 55.9% | 56.1% | 53.3% |
| Brad Marchand | 60.1% | 54.2% | 58.5% |
| Patrice Bergeron | 65.5% | 52.1% | 62.2% |
55.9% together, 56.1% for him apart and 53.3% for Carlo 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
197 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 61% from beyond forty.