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Simon Edvinsson
Detroit Red Wings Defense
6-6, 31 points at 22, and a plus-12 on a club that was minus-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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 103 | 10 | 25 | 35 | +5 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 104 | 9.6 | 20:19 |
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
7 goals and 24 assists in 78 games for 31 points, plus-12 on a club with a minus-23 goal differential — the best rating on the roster — on 21:07 a night.
48.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 39th percentile, over 1,377 minutes. His on-ice goals were 43-43 against an expected 53-55, so both ends ran cold and the results came out even.
The Finesse Game
The skating for 6-6 is genuinely unusual — long and easy, quick enough to recover when beaten wide, and comfortable carrying the puck out of trouble. That combination is the whole reason he was a 6th overall pick.
86 shots and 7 goals with a tenth of his attempts from inside 20 feet, which is an aggressive profile for a defenceman. 24 assists at 22 is a good return and the first pass is quick without yet being consistently right under pressure.
The Physical Game
6-6 and 222, and he uses it. He clears a crease, closes a rush with reach, and is difficult to get around at the blue line — the physical maturity is well ahead of the age.
67 penalty minutes over 78 games is a high rate and reflects a young defenceman still learning where the line is.
The Intangibles
A 6th overall pick, a slow arrival through the American League, and a first full NHL season at 22 in top-four minutes.
He is the second-best defenceman in the organisation and the reason the club can contemplate not overpaying elsewhere. The projection is a genuine top-pair defenceman; the 39th-percentile share is a team number more than a personal one.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,377 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.9%
- 40th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.2%
- 34th 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: 43 for, 43 against. Expected: 53.1 and 55.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 40 points above where the numbers do. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 78 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 1377 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, 2024-25
- The club
- DET took 48.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.9% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,377 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Johansson | 48.4% | 49.3% | 51.5% |
| Moritz Seider | 50.1% | 48.4% | 48.3% |
| Alex DeBrincat | 52.9% | 46.8% | 50.1% |
48.4% together, 49.3% for him apart and 51.5% for Johansson apart. Johansson was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
128 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 44 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 65% from beyond forty.