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Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Toronto Maple Leafs Defense
Plus-14 at 33 in the first year of a four-year contract, and 25 assists from a second pairing.
| 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 | TOR | 77 | 4 | 25 | 29 | +14 | 52 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 118 | 3.4 | 21:04 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 1059 | 148 | 352 | 500 | -104 | 684 | 61 | 4 | 36 | 2229 | 6.6 | 22:38 |
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
4 goals and 25 assists in 77 games — 29 points at 21:04 a night, plus-14, with 52 penalty minutes.
50.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 49th percentile, across 1,350 minutes. His ice went 59-51 against an expectation of 52.67-52.11 — six goals of scoring missing and eleven fewer conceded.
The Finesse Game
118 attempts at a median of 53 feet with 75 per cent from beyond 40, and 4 goals at 3.4 per cent. He was a 20-goal defenceman in Arizona and the shot has stopped producing entirely.
25 assists is what remains and it is real. He escapes the first forechecker by turning away from it, he moves the puck early, and the transition game is the reason he is on a second pairing at 34.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 190 and light for the position. He does not clear the front of his own net by force and he is not a punishing hitter.
52 penalty minutes in 77 games is a high rate for a defenceman who plays this way, and a share of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step at the blue line.
The Intangibles
Sixth overall in 2009 and 1,059 games and 500 points, with a career minus-104 accumulated almost entirely in Arizona on clubs that lost a great deal.
He won a Stanley Cup in Florida in 2024 and signed here that summer at 33. He is 34, and the contract runs three more years.
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
- 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 escapes the first forechecker by turning away from it, he moves the puck early, and the transition game is the reason he is on a second pairing at 34.”
“**25 assists is what remains and it is real.**”
“He does not clear the front of his own net by force and he is not a punishing hitter.”
“He does not clear the front of his own net by force and he is not a punishing hitter.”
“**52 penalty minutes in 77 games** is a high rate for a defenceman who plays this way, and a share of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step at the blue line.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,350 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.3%
- 56th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.8%
- 41st 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: 59 for, 51 against. Expected: 52.7 and 52.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 14 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 71 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 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 61st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.56 a game
- Distance
- 3.05 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.9 mph
- 68th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 · 1350 minutes at five-on-five
- Chris Tanev19%
- Simon Benoit14%
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
- TOR took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.3% — 0.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,350 minutes at five-on-five — 94th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Rielly | 47.1% | 52.4% | 51.5% |
| William Nylander | 49.9% | 50.5% | 51.0% |
| Mitchell Marner | 49.3% | 50.8% | 57.7% |
47.1% together, 52.4% for him apart and 51.5% for Rielly apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
187 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 54 feet. 6% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.