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Simon Holmstrom
New York Islanders Right Wing
Five shorthanded goals in one season at 22, and all five of his career total.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | NYI | 50 | 6 | 3 | 9 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 39 | 15.4 | 11:06 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 75 | 15 | 10 | 25 | +2 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 72 | 20.8 | 13:19 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 125 | 21 | 13 | 34 | -2 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 111 | 18.9 | 12:26 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
75 games, 15 goals and 10 assists for 25 points, 5 shorthanded, 14 penalty minutes, 13:19 a night and plus-2. He took 42.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 866 minutes, the 10th percentile, and his ice went 30-37 against an expectation of 27.47-36.54.
Three goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and level at the other end. A 10th-percentile chance share and five shorthanded goals is one of the odder combinations in this edition.
The Finesse Game
116 attempts at a median of 23 feet with 44 per cent from inside 20, 72 on goal, converted at 20.8 per cent against a career 18.92.
13 career assists in 125 games. Fifteen goals on seventy-two shots is a rate nobody sustains, and a career 18.92 per cent across a hundred and eleven shots is not enough to argue about. He gets to the right ice and there is not much playmaking.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 208 and forechecks at speed without finishing many checks.
14 penalty minutes in 75 games is a very low rate. He kills penalties, blocks shots, and reads a breakout a beat before it happens — which is where five shorthanded goals come from.
The Intangibles
Twenty-third overall in 2019 out of Tranas, two seasons, and 34 points in 125 games, all of it for one organisation.
He is 23 and scored five shorthanded goals in a season, which almost nobody does. The chance share at five-on-five is the tenth percentile and both of those facts are true about the same player.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 866 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.9%
- 10th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.2%
- 9th 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: 30 for, 37 against. Expected: 27.5 and 36.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 48 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 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
2023-24 · 866 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, 2023-24
- The club
- NYI took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.9% — 6.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 866 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | 39.3% | 46.8% | 48.6% |
| Alexander Romanov | 42.0% | 43.5% | 50.3% |
| Noah Dobson | 41.9% | 43.5% | 51.4% |
39.3% together, 46.8% for him apart and 48.6% for Pageau apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
116 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.