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Linus Karlsson
Vancouver Canucks Center
Twenty-three games at 25, and a plus-5 on a club that was outscored.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | VAN | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 10:09 |
| 2024-25 | VAN | 23 | 3 | 3 | 6 | +5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 10.7 | 10:56 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 27 | 3 | 3 | 6 | +5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 9.4 | 10:49 |
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
3 goals and 3 assists in 23 games — 6 points at 10:56 a night, plus-5, with a power-play goal, a game-winner and 6 penalty minutes on 28 shots.
There is no five-on-five sample worth reporting. A plus-5 in 23 games on a club that finished minus-10 is the sort of number that means nothing and reads well.
The Finesse Game
28 attempts and 3 goals in 23 games. He was a prolific scorer in Sweden and in the American League and none of it has translated yet.
3 assists. The hands are decent and the pace of the NHL game is the thing he has not solved, which is the usual story for a 25-year-old with 27 career games.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 178 and light. He forechecks honestly and he does not win pucks against defencemen.
6 penalty minutes in 23 games. He is disciplined and not physically involved.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick of San Jose in 2018 out of Sweden, traded here in 2019, and 27 NHL games in across two seasons.
He is 25. He has scored at every level below this one and the window in which that continues to be interesting is closing.
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
- 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.
“He forechecks honestly and he does not win pucks against defencemen.”
“He forechecks honestly and he does not win pucks against defencemen.”
“6 penalty minutes in 23 games. He is disciplined and not physically involved.”
The numbers underneath
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 23 games
- Top speed
- 20.6 mph
- 4th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.13 a game
- Distance
- 1.63 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.2 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 · 188 minutes at five-on-five
- Nils Aman24%
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.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
44 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 6 feet. 66% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.