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Oskar Lindblom
San Jose Sharks Left Wing
The 11th-softest shot of 365 forwards and the 8th-percentile top speed, at 13:48 a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | PHI | 23 | 2 | 4 | 6 | +4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 5.6 | 14:35 |
| 2018-19 | PHI | 81 | 17 | 16 | 33 | -9 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 162 | 10.5 | 13:45 |
| 2019-20 | PHI | 30 | 11 | 7 | 18 | +4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 15.3 | 17:37 |
| 2020-21 | PHI | 50 | 8 | 6 | 14 | -9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 13.8 | 13:11 |
| 2021-22 | PHI | 79 | 12 | 14 | 26 | -11 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 127 | 9.4 | 13:48 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 263 | 50 | 47 | 97 | -21 | 63 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 455 | 11.0 | 14:10 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
79 games for Philadelphia, 12 goals and 14 assists at 13:48 a night, minus-11, twenty-two penalty minutes, 127 shots. One hundred and thirty-eighth overall in 2014 — the fifth round — five seasons, 263 games, 97 points.
The Finesse Game
His shot is 81.0 mph, the 11th-softest of the 365 forwards the tracking measures. Ten men in the league shoot softer and none of them scored twelve goals.
6.99 shots per 60 is the 45th percentile at 9.4 per cent, from a 27-foot median with forty-eight per cent from the slot. Twelve goals came out of 127 attempts and none of them came on the power play — thirty-four seconds a night, the 27th percentile.
1.53 even-strength points per 60 is the 33rd percentile.
1.05 takeaways per 60 is the 12th percentile against 0.99 giveaways at the 16th. Almost nothing happens on his stick in either direction.
46.2 per cent of the expected goals is the 19th percentile and 45.0 per cent of the attempts the 12th, out of 44.7 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 173rd-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts — a hard chair on a club that finished 29th.
His ice went 37-46 against an expectation of 37.25-43.37.
The Physical Game
2.64 blocks per 60 is the 85th percentile among forwards, at 6-1 and 191 pounds on a 13:48 shift.
4.57 hits per 60 is the 58th percentile. 0.66 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.61 taken, and twenty-two penalty minutes came out of seventy-nine games.
The Intangibles
21.5 mph is the 8th percentile among forwards and 1.8 bursts over twenty miles an hour per 60 is the 8th, against 9.55 miles per 60 at the 40th.
Two skating measurements in the bottom tenth of the league and a shot in the bottom four per cent. Those three together describe the ceiling more exactly than any other line in this batch.
He is 26 with 263 games across five seasons, only two of which ran past fifty games. The blocks, the durability and seventy-nine games played are the case. The shot speed, the top speed, the sprint count and possession shares in the bottom eighth of the league are why San Jose is his second club.
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
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
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“2.64 blocks per 60 is the 85th percentile among forwards, at 6-1 and 191 pounds on a 13:48 shift.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 981 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.2%
- 24th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45%
- 15th 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: 37 for, 46 against. Expected: 37.3 and 43.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 2 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 55 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, 2021-22 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 21.5 mph
- 26th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.41 a game
- Distance
- 2.20 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 81.0 mph
- 24th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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
2021-22 with PHI · 981 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, 2021-22
- The club
- PHI took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.2% — 0.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 981 minutes at five-on-five — 59th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Sanheim | 47.0% | 45.7% | 48.8% |
| Ivan Provorov | 45.9% | 46.4% | 47.4% |
| Scott Laughton | 47.2% | 45.6% | 47.2% |
47.0% together, 45.7% for him apart and 48.8% for Sanheim 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
155 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 26% from beyond forty.