Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Isac Lundeström

Anaheim Ducks Center

Two penalty minutes in forty-six games, and his ice outscored the opposition 32-22 on a team that lost fifty.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2018-19ANA15022-12000130.013:02
2019-20ANA15044-20000100.013:55
2020-21ANA41639-9140005211.515:15
2021-22ANA80161329-380438319.315:29
2022-23ANA6141014-132010606.714:20
2023-24ANA465611-120103813.214:20
2024-25 so far
Career258313869-292806325612.114:44

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

5 goals and 6 assists in 46 games — 11 points at 14:20 a night, minus-1, with 1 shorthanded goal on 38 shots, converting at 13.16 per cent, and 2 penalty minutes.

Two penalty minutes in forty-six games is the lowest rate on this roster and one of the lowest in the edition.

49.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 539 minutes, the 51st percentile. His ice went 32-22 against an expectation of 19.78-19.95 — twelve goals scored above expectation and two conceded below it, on a club that was outscored by ninety-one. It is 539 minutes and it should be read as such, but it is the only positive goal differential on the roster.

The Finesse Game

38 attempts at a median of 12 feet, with 65 per cent from inside 20 and 11 per cent from beyond 40 — the most net-front shot profile on this club by a distance.

He does not shoot much and when he does it is from the paint. Five goals on thirty-eight shots at 13.16 per cent is what shot selection looks like.

6 assists. He is not a creator and the club does not ask him to be.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 192. He forechecks honestly without punishing anybody, and the defending is positional.

Two penalty minutes in forty-six games and 28 in 258 career games. He does not retaliate, he does not take liberties, and there is not a single unnecessary minor in the season.

The Intangibles

Twenty-third overall in 2018, out of Luleå, and 258 games at 24, all of them here.

He wins the draw that begins a penalty kill and he is the first forward over the boards a man short. A first-round pick who becomes a defensively responsible third-line centre is not the outcome anyone drafted, and it is a genuinely useful NHL player.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 539 minutes

Expected goals
49.8%
51st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
44.8%
16th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 22 against. Expected: 19.8 and 19.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
46th
Numbers
51st

The two rank him within 5 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 41 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.

Usual linemates

2023-24 · 539 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, 2023-24

The club
ANA took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.8% — 3.9 above the club he did it on.
The role
Third line, 539 minutes at five-on-five — 20th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Jakob Silfverberg55.3%40.9%45.2%
Cam Fowler47.1%51.1%46.0%
Brett Leason41.9%52.1%44.1%

55.3% together, 40.9% for him apart and 45.2% for Silfverberg 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

62 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 66% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.