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Isac Lundeström

405 games, and the 15th percentile in both columns.

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

2018-19	ANA	15	0	2	2	-1	2	0	0	0	13	0.0	13:02
2019-20	ANA	15	0	4	4	-2	0	0	0	0	10	0.0	13:55
2020-21	ANA	41	6	3	9	-9	14	0	0	0	52	11.5	15:15
2021-22	ANA	80	16	13	29	-3	8	0	4	3	83	19.3	15:29
2022-23	ANA	61	4	10	14	-13	2	0	1	0	60	6.7	14:20
2023-24	ANA	46	5	6	11	-1	2	0	1	0	38	13.2	14:20
2024-25	ANA	79	4	11	15	-12	10	0	0	1	60	6.7	13:33
2025-26	CBJ	68	4	8	12	-2	4	0	0	0	53	7.5	12:23
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	405	39	57	96	-43	42	0	6	4	369	10.6	14:07

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

4 goals and 8 assists in 68 games — 12 points, minus-2, at 12:23 a night with 4 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Thin and consistent about it. 68 unblocked attempts, 4 goals, median 26 feet with 37 per cent inside 20. 96 points in 405 career games.

He is a defensive centre who takes faceoffs and kills penalties, and the offence has never been part of the proposition.

The Physical Game

6-1, 192, and 4 penalty minutes in 68 games, which is either exceptional discipline or a player who is never in anything. Here it is closer to the second: he defends with his stick and does not initiate.

The Intangibles

The worst forward numbers on the roster: 45.2 per cent of the expected goals, 16th percentile, and 45.6 per cent of the shot attempts, also 15th, across 727 minutes.

Columbus finished 30th on the penalty kill. Lundestrom is one of the men killing them.

He is 26, a first-round pick in 2018, and 405 games into a career as a fourth-line centre. The role is real and somebody has to do it; the numbers say it is not being done well.

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

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.

disciplined· stays out of the box
0.06 penalty minutes a game over 68, 1st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
35% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 10th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 727 minutes

Expected goals: 45.2%; 17th pct
Shot attempts: 45.2%; 13th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 23 for, 25 against. Expected: 22.3 and 26.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

6th

Numbers

17th

The two rank him within 11 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 — 62 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 · 68 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 77th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.65 a game
Distance: 1.97 miles a game
Hardest shot: 78.7 mph; 16th 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 — 1 goals, 3 assists, 14 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 727 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: CBJ took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.2% — 6.4 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 727 minutes at five-on-five — 32nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Miles Wood	45.4%	45.1%	47.2%
Ivan Provorov	43.7%	46.4%	52.5%
Zach Werenski	44.0%	46.0%	56.7%

45.4% together, 45.1% for him apart and 47.2% for Wood 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

68 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.