Mikael Granlund

651 career points, and a body of work that keeps outrunning the eye test.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2012-13	MIN	27	2	6	8	-4	6	0	0	0	36	5.6	13:11
2013-14	MIN	63	8	33	41	-3	22	2	0	2	104	7.7	17:19
2014-15	MIN	68	8	31	39	+17	20	0	0	2	99	8.1	17:54
2015-16	MIN	82	13	31	44	-12	20	2	1	3	160	8.1	18:07
2016-17	MIN	81	26	43	69	+23	12	7	3	4	177	14.7	18:49
2017-18	MIN	77	21	46	67	+13	18	7	1	2	193	10.9	18:47
2018-19	MIN/NSH	79	16	38	54	-8	24	2	2	5	189	8.5	18:21
2019-20	NSH	63	17	13	30	-4	28	4	1	4	130	13.1	17:48
2020-21	NSH	51	13	14	27	-1	14	5	0	1	74	17.6	19:28
2021-22	NSH	80	11	53	64	-9	33	3	0	3	117	9.4	20:25
2022-23	NSH/PIT	79	10	31	41	-15	20	1	0	1	121	8.3	17:49
2023-24	SJS	69	12	48	60	-23	32	1	0	1	134	9.0	20:58
2024-25	SJS/DAL	83	22	44	66	0	28	5	1	4	169	13.0	19:27
2025-26	ANA	58	19	22	41	-9	18	8	0	2	117	16.2	19:10
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	960	198	453	651	-35	295	47	9	34	1820	10.9	18:39

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

19 goals and 22 assists in 58 games — 41 points, and a 34-year-old’s version of a point every game and a half. 19 minutes a night. 8 of the goals came on the power play. His 5-on-5 work was done in San Jose before he arrived here.

The Finesse Game

5-10, and everything he does is built around not needing to be bigger. He plays the half-wall on the power play as well as anyone in the league at his age, because the release is quick and the fake is convincing and defenders have to honour both.

At even strength he is a distributor — 453 career assists against 198 goals tells the story — and his 19 goals last season were a career-rate outlier that owed something to a shooting percentage he will not repeat. The median attempt came from 23 feet, so at least he was getting to reasonable ice to do it.

The Physical Game

The weakest part and always has been. He is 193 pounds and avoids contact as a matter of design rather than cowardice; 18 penalty minutes in 58 games is a man who is never in a scrum.

Against a heavy forecheck he can be taken out of a game, and at 34 that is not going to improve.

The Intangibles

960 games and 651 points, which is a career almost nobody predicted from a 9th overall pick who spent his first 3 seasons looking like a bust.

The 5-on-5 numbers stayed good — 53.5 per cent of the expected goals, 80th percentile — on a club that was poor. 10 points in his last 10 games. He is here to give a young forward group somebody who has done it, and to run a power play that finished mid-table and needs the help.

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

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.

clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
4 of his 19 goals late or in overtime, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 795 minutes

Expected goals: 53.5%; 80th pct
Shot attempts: 51.7%; 72nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 37 against. Expected: 37.7 and 32.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

55th

Numbers

80th

The numbers rank him 25 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 73 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, 2025-26 · 58 games

Top speed: 22.3 mph; 56th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.41 a game
Distance: 2.87 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.4 mph; 41st pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 7 assists, 24 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 777 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, 2025-26

The club: ANA took 50.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.5% — 2.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 795 minutes at five-on-five — 37th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Beckett Sennecke	55.8%	51.3%	49.4%
Alex Killorn	54.8%	52.5%	49.0%
Jacob Trouba	52.9%	53.9%	48.9%

55.8% together, 51.3% for him apart and 49.4% for Sennecke 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

181 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 12% from beyond forty.