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Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Toronto Maple Leafs Defense
A career minus-118, the sixth-worst figure in this edition, and 59 career power-play goals.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | PHX | 48 | 1 | 10 | 11 | +3 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 2.0 | 15:02 |
| 2011-12 | PHX | 82 | 13 | 19 | 32 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 147 | 8.8 | 22:07 |
| 2012-13 | PHX | 48 | 3 | 21 | 24 | +5 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 101 | 3.0 | 25:06 |
| 2013-14 | PHX | 80 | 15 | 29 | 44 | -4 | 50 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 199 | 7.5 | 25:54 |
| 2014-15 | ARI | 82 | 23 | 20 | 43 | -18 | 40 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 264 | 8.7 | 25:13 |
| 2015-16 | ARI | 75 | 21 | 34 | 55 | -6 | 96 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 228 | 9.2 | 24:46 |
| 2016-17 | ARI | 79 | 12 | 27 | 39 | -25 | 48 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 145 | 8.3 | 24:37 |
| 2017-18 | ARI | 82 | 14 | 28 | 42 | -28 | 44 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 202 | 6.9 | 23:41 |
| 2018-19 | ARI | 81 | 14 | 30 | 44 | -16 | 52 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 176 | 8.0 | 23:38 |
| 2019-20 | ARI | 66 | 9 | 21 | 30 | -3 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 135 | 6.7 | 23:01 |
| 2020-21 | ARI | 46 | 3 | 21 | 24 | -17 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 3.6 | 20:58 |
| 2021-22 | VAN | 79 | 5 | 24 | 29 | +5 | 52 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 168 | 3.0 | 22:19 |
| 2022-23 | VAN | 54 | 2 | 20 | 22 | -24 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 2.2 | 20:11 |
| 2023-24 | FLA | 80 | 9 | 23 | 32 | +10 | 76 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 123 | 7.3 | 18:24 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 982 | 144 | 327 | 471 | -118 | 632 | 59 | 4 | 35 | 2111 | 6.8 | 22:45 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
80 games with Florida, 9 goals and 23 assists for 32 points, 1 on the power play, 76 penalty minutes, 18:24 a night and plus-10, with 3 game-winners. He took 53.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,175 minutes, the 82nd percentile, and his ice went 49-41 against an expectation of 49.34-42.18.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and a goal of goaltending above them. Thirty-two points is his most since 2018-19 and the plus-10 is the best plus-minus of his career.
The Finesse Game
182 attempts at a median of 51 feet with 75 per cent of them from beyond forty and 8 per cent from inside twenty, 122 of those on goal, converted at 7.3 per cent against a career 6.82 across 2,111 shots.
144 career goals and 59 power-play goals in 982 games. The shot from the point is genuinely heavy and always has been; nine goals from a third-pairing defenceman is what a club is paying for, and 327 career assists is the rest of it.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 190 and took 76 penalty minutes.
632 career penalty minutes in 982 games. He is light for a defenceman who has played fourteen seasons at twenty-plus minutes and has never defended by contact; the penalties come from reaching after the man has already gone past.
The Intangibles
Sixth overall in 2009 by Phoenix, fourteen seasons, and Toronto is his fourth organisation.
A career minus-118 — the sixth-worst figure in this edition — across fourteen seasons, most of them in Arizona. He is 33, he has 471 points, and the plus-10 he posted in Florida is the only time in fourteen seasons he has finished a year better than plus-five.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- 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.
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“The shot from the point is genuinely heavy and always has been; nine goals from a third-pairing defenceman is what a club is paying for, and 327 career assists is the rest of it.”
“He is light for a defenceman who has played fourteen seasons at twenty-plus minutes and has never defended by contact; the penalties come from reaching after the man has already gone past.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,175 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.9%
- 82nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 56.3%
- 93rd 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: 49 for, 41 against. Expected: 49.3 and 42.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 6 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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, 2023-24 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 22.9 mph
- 91st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.59 a game
- Distance
- 2.77 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.2 mph
- 59th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 with FLA · 1175 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, 2023-24
- The club
- FLA took 53.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.9% — 0.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,175 minutes at five-on-five — 80th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dmitry Kulikov | 53.3% | 54.3% | 54.2% |
| Gustav Forsling | 53.7% | 54.0% | 57.1% |
| Anton Lundell | 52.1% | 54.6% | 53.4% |
53.3% together, 54.3% for him apart and 54.2% for Kulikov apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
182 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 41 feet. 8% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.