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Simon Edvinsson

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Simon Edvinsson

Detroit Red Wings Defense #77

Six foot six, twenty-two minutes a night, and the seventy-fourth percentile at twenty-three.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-267291625+12750028810.222:21
Career175194160+171580051929.921:09

Last Season

Nine goals and 16 assists in 72 games — 25 points, plus-12, at 22:21 a night with 75 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The skating is remarkable for the size — six foot six and genuinely mobile, able to carry the puck out of trouble rather than chip it. That combination is why he was a sixth overall pick.

A hundred and thirty-seven unblocked attempts from a median of 45 feet, nine goals. Sixteen assists in 72 games is a modest return and the offence is still arriving.

The Physical Game

Six foot six, 222, and he uses it properly. Seventy-five penalty minutes is a young defenceman playing on the edge, and in front of his own net he is the one Detroit sends to clear traffic.

The Intangibles

Fifty-two point four per cent of the expected goals, 74th percentile, and 51.4 per cent of the shot attempts, 70th, across 1,414 minutes.

That is the second-best mark on a club where the other four regular defencemen sit at the ninth, thirteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth percentiles. Detroit’s blue line is Seider, Edvinsson, and a long drop.

He is 23 and 175 games in. No goals in his last ten. A defenceman this size who skates like this and posts these numbers at this age is the second-most valuable asset on the roster.