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Leo Carlsson
Anaheim Ducks Center
20 goals at 20 on a 17.5 per cent rate, and the only forward here whose on-ice goals beat what the chances deserved.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ANA | 55 | 12 | 17 | 29 | -11 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 11.0 | 18:07 |
| 2024-25 | ANA | 76 | 20 | 25 | 45 | +6 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 114 | 17.5 | 16:14 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 131 | 32 | 42 | 74 | -5 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 223 | 14.3 | 17:01 |
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
20 goals and 25 assists in 76 games for 45 points, plus-6, on 16:14 a night — a plus rating on a club that conceded 263 goals, which almost nobody here managed.
44.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 13th percentile, which sounds damning until you see that every forward on this roster is in that neighbourhood. His on-ice goals were 33-29 against an expected 34-43: the only regular forward whose results ran ahead of the chances.
The Finesse Game
A 6-3 centre who plays a slow, deliberate, possession game and is almost never rushed. He protects the puck below the goal line, waits for a lane, and makes the pass a beat later than a defenceman expects — the vision is the best thing here and it is unusual in a 20-year-old.
42 per cent of his shots come from inside 20 feet and he converted at 17.5 per cent, which is high and not absurd given the locations. What he does not yet have is a release that beats a goaltender from distance, and the skating is good rather than dangerous — he separates with body position, not speed.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 208 and still filling out. He is already difficult to move off a puck and he takes contact to make plays without seeking it, which is the profile of a man who will be very hard to defend at 24.
14 penalty minutes in 76 games. The club has managed his workload carefully since he arrived, and this was the first season he played something close to a full one.
The Intangibles
The 2nd overall pick, handed a top-six job at 18 on a bad team, and there has been no visible discouragement in two seasons of losing.
The honest reading is that he is the most important player in the organisation and the one whose development the rest of it is waiting on. 45 points at 20 in this environment is a genuine indicator; a 17.5 per cent shooting rate is not, and the next season will look worse before it looks better.
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.
- 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.
“He protects the puck below the goal line, waits for a lane, and makes the pass a beat later than a defenceman expects”
“He protects the puck below the goal line”
“He is already difficult to move off a puck and he takes contact to make plays without seeking it”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 944 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.5%
- 15th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.6%
- 30th 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: 33 for, 29 against. Expected: 34.3 and 42.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 73 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 — 80 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 · 76 games
- Top speed
- 23.8 mph
- 98th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.14 a game
- Distance
- 2.84 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 84.3 mph
- 40th 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 · 944 minutes at five-on-five
- Alex Killorn78%
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 44.5% — 0.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 944 minutes at five-on-five — 52nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Killorn | 46.3% | 38.5% | 51.6% |
| Olen Zellweger | 45.5% | 44.1% | 48.3% |
| Radko Gudas | 43.0% | 45.2% | 47.2% |
46.3% together, 38.5% for him apart and 51.6% for Killorn apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Killorn and did not follow him.
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
174 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.