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Lars Eller
Florida Panthers Center #20
Eleven hundred and eighty-four games, and half his shots from inside twenty feet.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 68 | 5 | 10 | 15 | +5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 67 | 7.5 | 11:27 |
| Career | 1184 | 193 | 246 | 439 | -25 | 647 | 17 | 10 | 30 | 1976 | 9.8 | 14:52 |
Last Season
Five goals and 10 assists in 68 games — 15 points, plus-five, at 11:27 a night with 12 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Ottawa. His 1,184th career game.
The Finesse Game
Thin now and correctly placed. Eighty-six unblocked attempts with 49 per cent from inside twenty feet, median 20, and five goals.
He goes to the right ice and cannot finish from it any more, which at 37 is the ordinary shape of the decline. A hundred and ninety-three goals in 1,184 games is what the career was.
The Physical Game
Six foot two, 207, and he plays the checking role properly — wins defensive-zone faceoffs, protects pucks on the wall, and takes twelve penalty minutes across a full season.
The skating went years ago and the ice time has fallen with it.
The Intangibles
Forty-eight point nine per cent of the expected goals, 44th percentile, in 702 minutes — a fourth-line result in fourth-line minutes.
Seventeen seasons, a Stanley Cup in Washington where he scored the goal that won it, and a career built entirely on being useful rather than good.
He is 37 and arrives on a club with Barkov, Bennett and Lundell down the middle, which makes him the fourth centre and the one taking the draws nobody wants. That is a real job and he has done it for a decade.