Simon Edvinsson

6-6, 22 minutes a night, and the 74th percentile at 23.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2022-23	DET	9	2	0	2	-7	12	0	0	0	5	40.0	17:04
2023-24	DET	16	1	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	13	7.7	18:15
2024-25	DET	78	7	24	31	+12	67	0	0	3	86	8.1	21:07
2025-26	DET	72	9	16	25	+12	75	0	0	2	88	10.2	22:21
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	175	19	41	60	+17	158	0	0	5	192	9.9	21:09

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

9 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 — 6-6 and genuinely mobile, able to carry the puck out of trouble rather than chip it. That combination is why he was a 6th overall pick.

137 unblocked attempts from a median of 45 feet, 9 goals. 16 assists in 72 games is a modest return and the offence is still arriving.

The Physical Game

6-6, 222, and he uses it properly. 75 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

52.2 per cent of the expected goals, 72nd percentile, and 51.6 per cent of the shot attempts, 71st, across 1,414 minutes.

That is the second-best mark on a club where the other 4 regular defencemen sit at the ninth, 13th, 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 10. A defenceman this size who skates like this and posts these numbers at this age is the second-most valuable asset on the roster.

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

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
21.9% of his attempts in the slot, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
52.2% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 46.0% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.2, 96th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
19:38 a game at five-on-five, 96th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,414 minutes

Expected goals: 52.2%; 72nd pct
Shot attempts: 51.6%; 71st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 55 for, 55 against. Expected: 61.8 and 56.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

73rd

Numbers

72nd

The two rank him within 1 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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, 2025-26 · 72 games

Top speed: 22.2 mph; 71st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.36 a game
Distance: 3.06 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.8 mph; 41st pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 4 assists, 16 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1414 minutes at five-on-five

Moritz Seider77%
Axel Sandin-Pellikka10%

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, 2025-26

The club: DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.2% — 4.0 above the club he did it on.
The role: First pair, 1,414 minutes at five-on-five — 93rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Moritz Seider	55.2%	42.1%	56.8%
Lucas Raymond	50.2%	53.2%	49.4%
Alex DeBrincat	55.9%	50.3%	49.7%

55.2% together, 42.1% for him apart and 56.8% for Seider apart. He was worse away from Seider, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Seider did.

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

137 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 15% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 58% from beyond forty.