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Isac Lundeström
Columbus Blue Jackets Center
15 points in 79 games, a minus-12, and a fourth-line centre signed to take defensive-zone draws.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 337 | 35 | 49 | 84 | -41 | 38 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 316 | 11.1 | 14:27 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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 11 assists in 79 games for 15 points, minus-12, on 13:33 a night with Anaheim.
60 shots in 79 games is very low volume and 15 points is a career-typical total. He has cleared 20 points once in seven seasons.
The Finesse Game
Almost none. The hands are functional at NHL pace and nothing more, and the shot is not a threat from any distance.
What there is: a reliable centre who wins pucks back, supports the play, and does not lose it in dangerous places. That is a real skill and it is the whole of his value.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 192, and willing without being heavy. He is honest on the forecheck and does not win many battles against defencemen.
10 penalty minutes over 79 games is exceptional discipline and is the single most useful line in his record for a club that finished 25th on the kill.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick who has become a fourth-line centre, and has accepted it without visible complaint over seven seasons.
The projection is a fourth-line centre who kills penalties and takes defensive draws. Columbus needed a defensively reliable fourth-line centre and bought one cheaply.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
- 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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.13 penalty minutes a game over 79, 6th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
29% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 3rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“What there is: a reliable centre who wins pucks back, supports the play, and does not lose it in dangerous places.”
“He is honest on the forecheck and does not win many battles against defencemen.”
“He is honest on the forecheck and does not win many battles against defencemen.”
“The projection is a fourth-line centre who kills penalties and takes defensive draws.”
“The projection is a fourth-line centre who kills penalties and takes defensive draws.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 824 minutes
- Expected goals
- 40.6%
- 4th pct
- Shot attempts
- 41.8%
- 3rd 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: 19 for, 35 against. Expected: 22.9 and 33.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 21 points above where the numbers do. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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, 2024-25 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 83rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.78 a game
- Distance
- 2.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.5 mph
- 30th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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
2024-25 with ANA · 824 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, 2024-25
- The club
- ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.6% — 4.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 824 minutes at five-on-five — 38th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brett Leason | 40.4% | 40.8% | 39.8% |
| Jansen Harkins | 38.0% | 42.0% | 42.3% |
| Radko Gudas | 39.8% | 40.9% | 47.5% |
40.4% together, 40.8% for him apart and 39.8% for Leason 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
87 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.