Nils Lundkvist
Dallas Stars Defense
A first-round pick, five seasons, and fifty-five points to show for two hundred and thirty-five games.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 52 | 3 | 8 | 11 | +12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 6.5 | 16:29 |
| Career | 235 | 12 | 43 | 55 | +28 | 78 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 297 | 4.0 | 15:20 |
Last Season
Three goals and eight assists in 52 games — 11 points, plus-12, at 16:29 a night.
The Finesse Game
He was drafted as an offensive defenceman and has never produced like one. Seventy-four unblocked attempts from a median of 52 feet, seven per cent inside twenty, three goals. Eight assists in 52 games.
The skating is good and the first pass is quick. What has not travelled from Sweden is the confidence to do anything with the puck once he has it — he moves it early and safely almost every time.
The Physical Game
Six foot one, 194, and light for the position. Sixteen penalty minutes in 52 games. He is not a factor in front of his own net and Dallas keeps him away from that work.
The Intangibles
Forty-nine point one per cent of the expected goals, 45th percentile, and 48.7 per cent of the shot attempts, 41st, across 832 minutes. Slightly below the line on a club that finished fourth in the league defensively — which is a third-pair result in third-pair minutes.
No goals in his last ten. He is 26, the twenty-eighth pick in 2018, and 235 games into a career that has settled at a level well below what the pick implied. This is probably what he is.