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Simon Holmstrom
New York Islanders Right Wing #92
Nineteen goals from a first-round pick who took four years to arrive.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 79 | 19 | 22 | 41 | +4 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 100 | 19.0 | 16:44 |
| Career | 279 | 60 | 60 | 120 | +7 | 38 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 307 | 19.5 | 14:50 |
Last Season
Nineteen goals and 22 assists in 79 games — 41 points, plus-four, at 16:44 a night.
The Finesse Game
The finishing arrived last season and the volume did not. A hundred shots on goal produced 19 goals, which is a 19 per cent conversion and will not repeat; 176 unblocked attempts from a median of 26 feet with 37 per cent inside twenty.
He gets to decent ice and does not shoot enough from it. A hundred and twenty points in 279 career games.
Twenty-two assists is honest middle-six work.
The Physical Game
Six foot one, 208, and he forechecks properly without being punishing. Sixteen penalty minutes in 79 games.
The skating is good and it is what got him drafted twenty-third overall.
The Intangibles
Forty-eight point four per cent of the expected goals, 39th percentile, on a club at 48.4 — exactly the team average.
The goals went 36-50 against, which is the club’s finishing problem rather than his: New York scored 145 five-on-five goals against 167 expected.
Five points in his last ten, three of them goals. He is 25, and this was the first season the first-round pick looked like one. Whether it holds depends entirely on whether he starts shooting more.